Donald Trump just savaged an(other) American hero

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Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

Updated 1:28 PM ET, Mon October 25, 2021

(CNN)Less than a week after deriding Colin Powell as a “classic RINO” days after the late general’s death, former President Donald Trump spent Sunday afternoon running down another American military hero: John McCain.

In a statement ostensibly about the late senator’s daughter and her decision to leave “The View,” Trump spent most of his time attacking McCain himself. Among the litany of abuse:

* Trump “made it possible for her father to have the world’s longest funeral, designed and orchestrated by him, even though I was never, to put it mildly, a fan.”

* Of McCain, Trump said: “In his own very special way, he was a RINO’s RINO.”

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Carl Sagan

Article URL : https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/25/politics/donald-trump-john-mccain/index.html