Jeffrey Toobin Says Donald Trump ‘Hates the Fact That McCain Is Such a Hero and He Was Such a Weasel During Vietnam’

Is it simple jealousy as Toobin and others assert?

Does the President feel threatened by the reputation and legacy of the late Senator to the point he needs to tear him down to build himself up?

Or is his anger over the Russia investigation that has seen several Trump campaign members and associates indicted, plead guilty, convicted of crimes and his businesses and charitable foundation opened to scrutiny by multiple law enforcement agencies and criminal prosecutors.

During his speech, Trump stated:

“John McCain received the fake and phony dossier. You hear about the dossier? It was paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton. And John McCain got it. And what did he do? He didn’t call me. He turned it over to the FBI hoping to put me in jeopardy.”

In 2016, McCain was given a copy of the dossier and quietly turned it over to the proper authorities. Trump seems to feel—based on his remarks—McCain should have given it to him instead.

Only the President knows for certain why he perpetuates a feud with a man who died almost seven months ago. However his record during the Vietnam War is a story that has dogged him.

His five draft deferments—once for bone spurs during a period he was participating in sports—earned him the moniker Cadet Bone Spurs from his critics and rivals.

McCain by contrast is a Navy veteran and former POW, a fact that Trump seems determined to disparage at every opportunity.

During the 2016 campaign Trump said before a crowd in Iowa that McCain was only a hero because he was captured and he preferred people who had not been captured.

While Trump’s base is more likely to attack the McCain family than to rebuke the President for his attacks, the GOP is taking a lot of collateral damage for their failure to speak up in defense of McCain.

How this will affect the party and the 2020 presidential campaign remains to be seen.

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Amelia Mavis Christnot
