Meghan McCain, the daughter of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said she would never be able to forgive or move on from President Trump and his administration’s poor treatment of her father.
McCain said during an interview at the Lyndon B. Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas, on Friday, that she no longer takes calls from the administration after White House special assistant Kelly Sadler promised she would publicly apologize for making a joke about McCain’s cancer diagnosis, but never did.
“If anyone [from the White House] wants to say anything to me in any way, they have to do it publicly. I don’t take private phone calls from the Trump Administration anymore,” McCain said.
“His comments are never going to be okay with me, especially at this moment in my life. I’m never going to forgive it. I’m never going to move on from it,” she added. “But [at work] I’m a political commentator, and I’m trying to call balls and strikes as I see them.”
The controversy McCain addresses in her remarks came earlier this year when Sadler told fellow White House communication staffers that McCain’s vote on then-CIA director nominee Gina Haspel didn’t matter because “he’s dying anyway.
Sadler remained in staff at the White House for nearly a month after making the disparaging remarks, a move that was heavily criticized by the McCain family, and the public.
“I don’t understand what kind of environment you’re working in when that would be acceptable and then you could come to work the next day and still have a job,” McCain said of Sadler following the remarks.”And that’s all I have to say about it.”
