Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said he couldn’t fathom why President Trump continues to attack the late Sen. John McCain, comments that come hours after Trump issued the latest in a series of tweets attacking the Arizona Republican, who died last year.
“I can’t understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God,” Romney tweeted Tuesday.
I can’t understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) March 19, 2019
Trump has rebuked McCain in the past and went after the Republican senator on Twitter over the weekend for his class standing at the U.S. Naval Academy, among other things. He said earlier Tuesday he was “never a fan of John McCain and I never will be.”
On Monday, McCain’s daughter Meghan McCain responded to the attacks and said she “genuinely” felt bad for Trump’s family.
“Listen, he spends his weekend, obsessing over great men because he knows it and I know it and all of you know it. He will never be a great man,” McCain, a co-host of “The View,” said on the show.
“And so, my father was his kryptonite in life. He will be his kryptonite in death,” she said. “Your life is spent on your weekends not with your family, not with your friends, but obsessing — obsessing — over great men you could never live up to. That tells you everything you need to know about his pathetic life right now.”
Trump continued to lambaste McCain on Tuesday and focused on McCain’s “disgraceful” decision to not back a Republican-led effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in 2017.
“I’m very unhappy that he didn’t repeal and replace Obamacare, as you know. He campaigned on repealing and replacing Obamacare for years and then they got to a vote and he said thumbs down,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
McCain, who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958 and was a naval aviator and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, died in August 2018 from brain cancer.
