CNN’s anti-Trump commentator Ana Navarro, who supported Jeb Bush for the Republican nomination in 2016, accused the White House Tuesday of wishing for Sen. John McCain’s death.
In a segment on the network’s “New Day” morning show, Navarro said McCain’s continued criticism of President Trump is rightfully disrupting the White House.
“I think, frankly, what’s happening here is the White House is irritated John McCain is not dying of cancer,” she said of the Arizona Republican. “He’s living with cancer. And he is choosing to make every single day on this earth something that’s meaningful and counts and he is still confronting Donald Trump for his outrages. He is still speaking conscience and conviction and principle. He is reminding Republicans what we used to be.”
[Opinion: Byron York: On the McCain controversy]
“I think, frankly, what’s happening here is the White House is irritated John McCain is not dying of cancer,” says @AnaNavarro. “He’s living with cancer.” https://t.co/xwhWRTmvdt pic.twitter.com/Bvp031XDLo
— New Day (@NewDay) May 15, 2018
McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer last year.
The White House is under continued pressure to offer a public apology after Kelly Sadler, a communications aide, reportedly made a dismissive comment about McCain’s prognosis, after McCain had said he opposed Gina Haspel’s nomination as CIA director. Sadler said McCain’s opposition doesn’t matter because he’s not voting in the Senate and is “dying anyway.”
So far, the White House has only said that the issue was being handled internally, though Sadler reportedly called McCain’s daughter, Meghan, to directly apologize.
