The event was about the life of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., bringing together three former presidents and two popular vote winners who nevertheless like the departed came up short in their bids for the office.

But it was hard to avoid thinking about the man who wasn’t there, and President Trump was very much on the minds of McCain’s eulogists. No one confronted the elephant in the room more directly than the late senator’s most famous daughter.

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