Meghan McCain slammed former President Donald Trump for mocking her late father, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), over accidents he sustained throughout his profession within the army.
“My dad was an American hero. An icon. A patriot that will be remembered throughout history. I cannot buy a bagel without someone approaching me about how much they loved and miss him,” she wrote on X, previously Twitter, Saturday.
“Trump is a piece of shit, election denying, huckster whose own wife won’t campaign with him.”
Trump name-dropped McCain in an Iowa speech on Saturday as he remarked on efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also referred to as Obamacare, throughout his administration.
“Obamacare is a catastrophe, nobody talks about it. You know, without John McCain, we would’ve had it done,” mentioned Trump of McCain, who voted in opposition to a Republican measure that might’ve repealed elements of the act in 2017.
Trump later made a thumbs down gesture, imitating McCain’s vote on the time: “John McCain, for some reason, couldn’t get his arm up that day, remember? He goes … like that. That was the end of that.”
McCain spent 5 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese jail, the place he was subjected to torture after his Skyhawk dive bomber was shot down in 1967. At the time, he was a lieutenant commander within the Navy.
He sustained accidents from the crash, the torture and from “inadequate medical treatment,” ABC News famous, which left him unable to lift his arms above his shoulders.
Trump, the present front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, has attacked McCain on various events, each earlier than and after his demise in 2018.
The former president notably declared on the 2016 marketing campaign path that McCain was not “a war hero,” earlier than including that he likes individuals “who weren’t captured.”
He additionally grumbled about McCain final 12 months in his “Letters to Trump” coffee-table ebook, the place he wrote about giving the late senator “the world’s longest funeral.” It’s value noting that Trump didn’t attend the funeral, on the request of McCain’s household.
“Much like his wars, it never ended,” Trump wrote.
