Former Vice President Joe Biden’s eulogy of John McCain never mentioned Trump’s name, but still contained a stinging indictment of Trump’s character and the kinds of politics that he practices.
On MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace said that unlike George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Trump was never a political rival to John McCain. Trump was just a troll.
Trump caved to the nearly universal outrage over his behavior and finally released a statement about the death of Sen. John McCain.
John McCain chose to quote from his 2008 concession speech in his last message to the American people, as he wanted us to all to remember that we are Americans and we don’t quit or surrender to the Russians and Trump.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) is urging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to defy Trump and honor Senator John McCain with the flag at half-staff as it should be.
Trump has refused to issue a presidential proclamation lowering flags to half-staff in memory of the late Sen. John McCain, so the after being lowered over the weekend, the White House flag has been raised to full staff again.
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden paid tribute to John McCain and included a shot a Trump by pointing out that McCain never thought that he should lose his security clearance.
Hillary Clinton remembered John McCain with a class and insight that Donald Trump will never possess.
Trump can’t handle all the media coverage of Sen. John McCain’s death, so he is off in his Twitter corner retweeted Hillary Clinton and FBI conspiracies along with giving himself credit for the economy.
On Friday, John McCain’s family announced his decision to discontinue treatment for his brain cancer and the notable U.S. Senator died Saturday afternoon at the age of 81. McCain’s death is being mourned throughout the country and the world, but very soon the world of politics will turn its attention to the question of who…
Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kelli Ward wrote a comment on social media Saturday suggesting that a statement issued by Sen. John McCain’s family was intended to hurt her in her bid to win a U.S. Senate seat. On Friday Senator McCain’s family released a public statement saying they had decided to end the senator’s medical…
John McCain was the last Republican who understood that good politics is about compromise, and without it, you’re left with tyranny. It takes two wings for a bird or an airplane to fly and ultimately it takes two wings for a policy to be sustained. We’re seeing what the absence of compromise in politics looks…
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough remembered the late Sen. John McCain and expressed the hope that Republicans would learn from McCain’s example and get some courage to stand up to Trump.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will introduce a resolution renaming the Senate office building after John McCain.
Former President Barack Obama summed up what made the late John McCain an all-time American hero in a moving tribute after the Senator from Arizona passed away on Saturday.
At least one top Republican has the guts to call for Roy Moore to get out of the Alabama Senate race. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says the allegations that Moore pursued sex with underage girls are enough to give him the boot.
Sen. John McCain was talking about the Vietnam War on C-SPAN 3’s American History TV when he got the ultimate dig in on Trump by calling out rich kids who avoided the draft with issues like bone spurs.
Senator John McCain suggested on Thursday that a powerful congressional committee he controls may consider issuing a subpoena in order to make the White House’s top cyber security official testify.
Sen. John McCain dealt another blow to Trump by announcing that he will support the Senate bill to strengthen Obamacare.
During an interview with a local Washington, DC radio station on Tuesday, Trump threatened Sen. John McCain as the man is dying from brain cancer.
McCain described Trump’s worldview as”unpatriotic” and said it should be thrown into the “ash heap of history.”
Veterans are hammering Donald Trump for showing disrespect to all veterans by physically mocking war hero Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
Trump took his classless behavior to a new low level on Saturday as he bashed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for not supporting the latest attempt to jam Obamacare repeal through the Senate, as McCain is fighting for his life and battling brain cancer.
“[The process for the Cassidy-Graham bill] is better but it’s not what the Senate is supposed to be doing,” he said. “Is it better to be guilty of murder or train robbery?”
Sen. John McCain sent a signal that he is not going to support the latest Republican effort to repeal Obamacare by announcing his support for the bipartisan ACA fixes being worked on in the Senate.
Sen. John McCain told reporters that his committee is working on accepting a bipartisan amendment that would prevent Trump from banning transgender persons from the military.
Sen. John McCain has followed through on his threat to Trump to take over strategy for the war in Afghanistan by attaching a policy amendment to the NDAA.
Republican Senators Lindsey Graham (SC), John McCain (AZ), Ron Johnson (WI), and Bill Cassidy (LA) held a joint press conference to announce that they would vote no on the skinny Obamacare repeal bill unless they got assurances from Paul Ryan that it would never become law.
Trump’s announcement of a transgender military ban has gone over like a lead balloon among his fellow Republicans who are opening breaking with their president on the policy.
Every American wished Sen. McCain well when the sad news of his cancer diagnosis broke last week. When he returns to Washington on Tuesday, he should vote to return the favor.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) who is battling brain cancer is trying to get doctors to approve him for travel so that he can come to Washington, DC tomorrow to vote to take healthcare away from 32 million Americans. Manu Raju of CNN tweeted: Cornyn tells reporters that McCain is "trying to get approval for his…
The former president reminded us of that, sometimes, we should put politics aside. In doing so, Obama made the country miss him even more than we already did.
According to CNN, the cancer is the same kind the late Sen. Ted Kennedy had.
“I think it’s very difficult when you have this overwhelming barrage of new information that unfolds every few days. I think it’s obvious.”
On CBS’s Face The Nation, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) torched Donald Trump for cooperating with Russia on preventing election hacking by saying by saying that he is sure Russia could help since they are the ones doing the hacking.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) spent eight years doing nothing but criticizing and complaining about former President Obama’s global leadership, but when asked if American leadership was better under Obama, McCain admitted that it was.
When Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was told that Trump leaked classified intel to Russia the former maverick responded by weakly stating that the President has the right to leak intel to an enemy of America.
Three Republicans joined with Senate Democrats in voting not to move a bill forward that would have repealed an Obama regulation limiting methane emissions from oil and gas drilling.
While admitting he agrees with Trump half the time, McCain added, “You can’t praise that kind of behavior and not raise concerns around the world.”
Rex Tillerson says one thing, Nikki Haley another. If there is any sort of messaging being sent, it is impossible to determine what it might be
Asked if he thought the Trump administration “encouraged this behavior,” McCain’s answer was, “I think it probably was partially to blame.”
On MSNBC’s MTP Daily, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) urged Trump to strike Syria without authorization from Congress. McCain also outlined a plan that would be a repeat of the mistakes the US made in Iraq.
Supposed “maverick” John McCain is once again following his party in action, leaving a trail of principled rhetoric followed by now predictable party caves. Republicans claim they must resort to changing the filibuster rules to get Neil Gorsuch confirmed, and for this, they blame Democrats.
Schiff asked, “Was today’s open hearing cancelled because WH did not want Sally Yates to testify re Gen Flynn’s deception?”
The charade that Donald Trump is our legitimate president has worn increasingly thin…he stands but one good push away from impeachment
“James Clapper and others stated that there is no evidence Potus colluded with Russia. This story is FAKE NEWS and everyone knows it!”
“You are achieving the objectives of Vladimir Putin…trying to dismember this small country. If they object, they are now carrying out the desires and ambitions of Vladimir Putin.”
President Trump should either provide evidence of his charge that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him or he should retract his accusation, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said during a Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union.
The Democratic Party is the socialist party because they are anti-Americans, they’re not pro-Americans. They’re liars and misleaders, and we need to wipe them out.
“Opening this line of questioning could be a first step toward some real congressional oversight of the administration.”
“Accounts and photographs from other diners seem to indicate these communications occurred in the presence of other guests.”
Amid a growing chorus of demands for an investigation into who knew what, Chaffetz claims “I think that situation has taken care of itself”
“At the same time, General Flynn’s resignation is a troubling indication of the dysfunction of the current national security apparatus.”
“Trump is unhinged and ignorant. Bannon is nuts and malicious. If not supervised by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, their decisions could endanger the world.â€
“There were major holes in how it was done. It almost seems like back-of-the envelope…the slap-dash way it was done was appalling and created the chaos.”
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, said he can’t defend Trump’s position “We can try to have a better relationship with Russia, but we also have to defend ourselves.â€
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) did one better than Trump, claiming that Russia’s attack on our democratic institutions was somehow a public service
“And most obvious among the speeds bumps he’ll hit will be [Republican Sens.] John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake, that triumvirate of idiocy.”
If the proposed bill passes, it “would mandate a new select Senate committee on cybersecurity” which would investigate the election-season cyber attack.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called for a bipartisan select committee to investigate Russian hacks on Sunday during CNN’s State of the Union. A joint select committee would be bad news for Trump because it guarantees that the Russian hack story will not go away.
No American patriot will ever accept or defend a leader aligned with a foreign “aggressor that consistently undermines American interests.”
During an interview on CNN, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that there is no doubt that Russia hacked the campaigns, and suggested that the investigation will focus on whether or not Russia tried to tip the election to Trump.
Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Jack Reed joined Republican Senators Lindsey Graham (SC) and John McCain in a joint statement that committed to investigatingRussia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
“If Hillary Clinton becomes president, I am going to do everything I can to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court.â€
Not even an overwhelming victory by Hillary Clinton is likely to convince Republicans that they should do their job.
Sen. John McCain breaks into a full sprint when he sees a reporter who was trying to ask him about his vow to block Hillary Clinton’s Supreme Court nominees.
Republicans are in the midst of an election where they could lose the White House by a landslide, control of the Senate, and see their House majority significantly reduced, but John McCain’s promise to block any Clinton Supreme Court nominee shows that Republicans have learned nothing.
In a state and country that knows the toll of gun violence too well, there is no room for invoking the use of firearms in our politics.
According to preliminary Nielsen numbers, 26 million viewers tuned into the star-studded opening night of the DNC – three million more than the Republican gathering took in.
These reckless, insulting comments have become commonplace for McCain because he cares more about shifting blame than keeping Americans safe.
Sen. John McCain has provided the perfect example of exactly why so many Americans have been turned off by the Republican Party.
A new PPP poll of Arizona shows that Mitch McConnell’s obstruction of President Obama may cost John McCain his Senate seat, and McConnell his Senate majority.
Our holy land, was put under the care of the U.S. government, and because of its ecological and cultural integrity, is protected by its laws.
Trump tweets that McCain is ‘no friend to Ted!’ but fails to mention his own ‘candid assessment’ of Cruz’s birth status just a few days ago
During a radio interview in Arizona, Sen. John McCain got a little payback on Ted Cruz by going birth and questioning whether the Supreme Court will have to decide if Cruz is eligible to be president.
The Republicans are whining a lot about the president’s address Sunday night, but they’re not offering useful ideas, just whine and bluster
A Kelli Ward victory over McCain would increase the odds for Democrat Rep. Kirkpatrick to win the general election and become US Senator.
The Republican Party’s attempts to stop Donald Trump are doing nothing in Iowa as the bigoted billionaire has seen his approval rating increase after his attack on John McCain.
Jeb Bush said yesterday in response to Donald Trump’s attack on John McCain that all veterans are deserving of respect: Enough with the slanderous attacks. @SenJohnMcCain and all our veterans – particularly POWs have earned our respect and admiration. — Jeb Bush (@JebBush) July 18, 2015 As Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jay Bookman then pointedly asked,…
Donald Trump has attacked just about everyone you care to mention at this point, and now he is taking a particularly brutal stab at John McCain (R-AZ): Trump just now on John McCain: "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured." — Karen Travers (@karentravers) July 18, 2015 Trump…
The vote in the Republican-controlled Senate on Monday was an overwhelming bipartisan statement that the President’s 2009 executive order banning torture must be ensconced in permanent law to prevent a Republican administration’s repeat performance in the future.
Arizona 1st District Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick plans to challenge Senator John in 2016, giving the Democrats a top tier candidate.
Republicans like to blame Obama, but Bush had already created ISIL, and Obama cannot un-create them, because Obama cannot un-invade Iraq
We have but one life to give, and we ought to act like that life means something, even when – especially when – it is not our own.
Sen. John McCain celebrated Memorial Day weekend by going on CBS’ Face The Nation and calling for Americans to be sent to die in a new war in the Middle East.
If Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy were alive at this moment, I’m convinced, at 83, he would still be in the Senate. He’d be just as passionate, committed, intelligently informed and supportive of the issues and legislation that really mattered.
There is no person in America as self-aggrandizing as Senator Lindsey Graham whose self-imposed image as a brilliant foreign policy and international relations genius informs him he can be president.
It has been 70 years this year since Japan’s bid to launch what it called the “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere” came crashing to the ground
What is duplicitous and very telling about how Republicans operate, and where their only loyalties and priorities lie, is that they are pushing the President to seek unilateral authority to negotiate and sign an international trade deal; something that requires congressional approval. And yet they have done everything in their power and all but forbid him from exercising his rightful executive authority where Congress has no say according to the Constitution; like on immigration enforcement and negotiating with foreign governments.
President Obama called out Mitch McConnell, John McCain, and all of the Senate Republicans who are actively trying to sabotage his foreign policy on the world stage.
I could be wrong, but I suspect Louis Jordan will be sailing into murky political waters very soon.
That gnawing, aching need for limelight, even more so than Cruz’s disingenuous flouting of science in exchange for base adoration, is what makes him unfit to lead.
John McCain disrespected the President Of The United States today by accusing President Obama of throwing a ‘temper tantrum’ over Netanyahu’s flip-flop on the two-state solution. McCain also told the president to ‘get over it.’
Attempts to link Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria with Cotton’s Iran letter, fail, as Pelosi was even briefed by the White House before she went
Early polling suggests that if Democrat Russ Feingold decides to mount a comeback Senate bid, Wisconsin will back him all the way.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) offered up the lamest Republican excuse possible for the GOP’s treasonous letter to Iran. McCain admitted that he didn’t read the letter carefully because he was in a hurry to leave Washington before a snowstorm arrived.
As the saying goes, stupidity is its own reward, and Republican Senator Tom Cotton has certainly proven the truth of that anonymous proverb
The Iranian may know the Constitution and international law better than the treasonous 47, but it seems he does not understand that in America, Republicans are not bound to any law; domestic or international.
On Monday morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) did what he does best, which is preen for the cameras and make a couple of appearances on cable news shows. McCain made his way over to MSNBC’s studio for an extended sit down with the Morning Joe crew.
The same Republicans who lost their minds over Michelle Obama’s proud of my country comments in 2008 are hypocritically overjoyed that John McCain said that he was ashamed of his country.