Meghan McCain on Friday dismissed a recent wave of insults against her father, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and said the people doing this are nobodies who won’t be remembered for anything.
“I just really want to emphasize, it was a hard day yesterday, but … My father’s legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years,” she said. “These people: nothingburgers. Nobody will remember you.”
She was responding to White House aide Kelly Sadler’s comments that the Trump administration doesn’t have to worry about McCain’s opposition to the nomination of Gina Haspel as the next CIA director because he was “dying anyway.”
“The other thing I want to say is that: Kelly, here’s a news flash … We’re all dying. I’m dying, you’re dying, we’re all dying,” McCain said. “And I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed … I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die. It’s how you live.”
The senator’s daughter also responded to retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney’s comments on Fox Thursday calling McCain “songbird John,” saying that torture tactics worked on him. She said that is a “really ugly nickname.”
