Conservative commentator Meghan McCain denounced Sen. Lindsey Graham over comments he made about inviting members of former President Donald Trump’s family to the funeral of her father, former Sen. John McCain, in 2018.
In her new book, Bad Republican, McCain, who recently left talk show The View citing an environment that was toxic to her beliefs, called Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, “funeral crashers.”
Graham, who was a friend of Sen. McCain, reportedly got approval from his widow, Cindy McCain, to invite them. He told the Washington Post the couple had every right to be at the 2018 funeral.
“She was upset they were there — I understand that, and she has hard feelings, but I know what happened and nobody showed up uninvited,” Graham said in a report published Tuesday. “I love Meghan McCain and I understand how stressful all this has been for her and those who attack her dad will never be forgiven by her.”
McCain put Graham on blast in a tweet on Wednesday.
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“Lindsey Graham may consider himself a member of my family, but he is not and hasn’t been for a very long time,” she wrote. “He certainly doesn’t speak for me or my life experiences. Full stop. The media should stop treating him like he is an expert on anything McCain related.”
Lindsey Graham may consider himself a member of my family, but he is not and hasn’t been for a very long time. He certainly doesn’t speak for me or my life experiences. Full stop. The media should stop treating him like he is an expert on anything McCain related.
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) October 27, 2021
McCain said last week that Ivanka Trump and Kushner “had no business” being at the funeral for her father, who feuded with Trump in the final years of his life.
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Trump released a statement Friday mocking McCain for leaving The View and claiming that the pomp of her father’s funeral was his doing.
“At the request of many of her representatives, I made it possible for her father to have the world’s longest funeral, designed and orchestrated by him, even though I was never, to put it mildly, a fan,” Trump said.
McCain thanked him for the publicity for her book and said there is a “blood feud” between their families.
