President Trump took fresh aim Tuesday at the late senator John McCain, calling his 2017 vote on a health-care bill “a disgrace” and saying he never was and never would be a fan of the Arizona Republican, who died of brain cancer seven months ago. “I’m very unhappy that he didn’t repeal and replace Obamacare, as you know,” Trump said, referring to McCain’s vote against overhauling the Affordable Care Act in July 2017. “I was never a fan of John McCain, and I never will be.”[A ‘pathetic life’: Meghan McCain escalates her pushback against Trump]President Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for an executive order earlier this month; the late senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) in a 2013 photo. As Trump emerged as a force in the Republican Party, friction between the two men grew. Meghan McCain, the late senator’s daughter, offered thinly veiled criticism of Trump during a eulogy for her father and has been far more outspoken in recent days.

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2019 17:03 UTC