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Trump Says He Never Called McCain A ‘Loser’—Here’s The Evidence That He Did


Trump Says He Never Called McCain A ‘Loser’—Here’s The Evidence That He Did


While denying a report from The Atlantic that he made disparaging comments about veterans, including the late Sen. John McCain, President Trump falsely claimed he never called the former Arizona senator a “loser.”

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Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport on September 3, 2020, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 by a narrow margin.


KEY FACTS
Citing unnamed sources, The Atlantic reported Trump made multiple derogatory remarks about veterans, calling them “losers” and “suckers,” and once refused to travel to a cemetery in which American troops killed in the brutal Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I are interred, saying: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” He was also worried that the wind would ruin his hair.

According to the report, when McCain died in August 2018, Trump reportedly told his senior staff, “We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,” and demanded to know why flags were being lowered to half-staff.

Trump denied The Atlantic’s report in a tweet, and claimed he “never called John a ‘loser’.”


Donald J. Trump
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I was never a big fan of John McCain, disagreed with him on many things including ridiculous endless wars and the lack of success he had in dealing with the VA and our great Vets, but the lowering of our Nations American Flags, and the first class funeral he was given by our....


At the 2015 Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, during his presidential campaign, Trump mocked McCain, who was captured and tortured by North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War, saying he liked people who “weren’t captured” and aren’t “losers.”

Trump tonight: "I never called John a loser"

Video: Trump calling John McCain a loser
https://twitter.com/i/status/1301715675115933703

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....John a loser and swear on whatever, or whoever, I was asked to swear on, that I never called our great fallen soldiers anything other than HEROES. This is more made up Fake News given by disgusting & jealous failures in a disgraceful attempt to influence the 2020 Election!


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Via @fitsnews: “Donald Trump: John McCain Is ‘A Loser’”

KEY BACKGROUND
Before his death in 2018, McCain frequently traded jabs with the president and was blasted by Trump repeatedly after he delivered the decisive vote—along with Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine)—that rejected Republicans’ attempt to repeal Obamacare in 2017. Trump was not invited to McCain’s funeral, but continued to attack the senator months after he died, following a battle with brain cancer.

CHIEF CRITIC
“I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes,” Trump told the Washington Post, responding to The Atlantic’s report. “There is nobody that respects them more. So I just think it’s a horrible, horrible thing.”

SURPRISING FACT
Hours after The Atlantic published its report, the Washington Post confirmed with an unnamed former senior administration official that the president had repeatedly referred to veterans and soldiers missing in action as “losers.”

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Why is it that not one of the Republican officeholders objecting to Biden's victory have objected to their own wins on the same day on the same ballots using the same election systems??!
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and:
A Fox News reporter confirmed The Atlantic’s story about Trump insulting fallen troops.
But Fox hosts are still calling it a hoax.
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/f ... -fox-hosts
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I just don't understand! Why do people jump hoops to prove Trump "lies like a rug?" He's made his feelings known about McCain since before he became president! That's what's so offensive about apologists for the man! It's not like he's hiding he's an offensive, misogynist pig, with no real intellect there to even pretend he knows what he's doing! Republicans were sorta able to instill some kind of "presence" with another nitwit, "W," but anyone trying to defend Trump winds up losing all their credibility! Even the most respected of individuals have embarrassed themselves; Mattis the only one never to compromise himself besides taking the Defense Sec. job in the 1st place! If you associate with Trump, you're going to be tainted as if "$#!t" was thrown at you! No comment on pigs playing in slop! emoticon

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Republicans were sorta able to instill some kind of "presence" with another nitwit, "W," but anyone trying to defend Trump winds up losing all their credibility!-Fiero



More "presence" or not, compared to Trump "W" appears to have been an even worse "nitwit." He got us into a major war with Iraq that was completely unjustified which cost both American lives and the lives of Iraqi citizens. It was a major fiasco based on nothing but BS about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. A phony excuse that the mass media seemed to go along with even though it makes no sense at all. If that excuse made sense we should have gone to war with North Korea.

"W" also nearly wrecked our economy. Trump hasn't managed to do that kind of economic damage yet.

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I think he has done that damage as far as the economy. Conservatives have paid no attention to the debt since Obama. I hated GWB politics I hate Trumps twice as much and I hate Trumps non representation and name calling, his accusation I'm basically a commie traitor who doesn't have the right nor sense of an opposite opinion to exist in this country. I hate his lies, I hate he has destroyed our relationship with allies and cozies up and lies about Putin. I hate he has no allegience to this country and only to his family and their personal fortune. He is not only a crap president, he and his cronies have gotten away with breaking more laws than the mafia, not to mention his fat ass is doing nothing other than golfing and spending money on our dime.
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I think he has done that damage as far as the economy. Conservatives have paid no attention to the debt since Obama. I hated GWB politics I hate Trumps twice as much and I hate Trumps non representation and name calling, his accusation I'm basically a commie traitor who doesn't have the right nor sense of an opposite opinion to exist in this country. I hate his lies, I hate he has destroyed our relationship with allies and cozies up and lies about Putin. I hate he has no allegience to this country and only to his family and their personal fortune. He is not only a crap president, he and his cronies have gotten away with breaking more laws than the mafia, not to mention his fat ass is doing nothing other than golfing and spending money on our dime.



Well I agree it was wrong for Trump to decrease taxes while increasing military spending, thus increasing the national debt.
I get why Obama had to increase the debt to end the recession, but Trump should have tried to start some payback.

But I hate our allies and the way they joined things like illegal economic sanctions against Iran and Russia.
I like Putin for not waging illegal wars, and being restrained in punishing the Ukraine for stealing Russian oil and gas.
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I would say you have low expectations from a leader of a country. Putin made war on an independent country, Ukraine. Why else would he not try and take over those countries of the former Soviet Union? He is continually threatening the Baltic countries, including with tanks on the border. He poisons persons, he has a large number of journalists with jumping out windows, bridges, car wrecks and heart attacks, hundreds. People of opposition are thrown in prison without due process and tortured and you "like?"
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I would say you have low expectations from a leader of a country. Putin made war on an independent country, Ukraine. Why else would he not try and take over those countries of the former Soviet Union? He is continually threatening the Baltic countries, including with tanks on the border. He poisons persons, he has a large number of journalists with jumping out windows, bridges, car wrecks and heart attacks, hundreds. People of opposition are thrown in prison without due process and tortured and you "like?"



The Ukraine deserved far worse for stealing $billions in Russian gas and oil.
A country like Russia has to threaten countries on their border.
For example, when Poland allowed the US to install nuclear missiles, they SHOULD have been invaded. That is identical to the Cuban missile crisis, and can not be allowed.

As for dissidents being killed or imprisoned, the US does that ten times worse. We have a vastly higher % of people imprisoned than Russia. We have a vastly more invasive police and surveillance system. We even have more propaganda and media control. Even our elections are more fake.
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The countries on the Russian border, no longer belong to Russia, neither does gas, minerals or any other resource. :Threaten" countries on their border, I call it Russia does not want their independence to losing those countries and what they produce. We are not monitored as Russians are that is bollocks and when you have such vastly different opinions as Hannity to Tapper that is not media control. You cannot speak for their prison system, we have no clue how many or why. That was an I'm winging it. Russian police are invasive with western tourists. You can't be a wienie when traveling Russia.
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