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Undated: John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25,
2018) was an American politician and military officer who served as a
United States Senator from
Arizona from
January 1987 until his death. He previously served two terms in the
United States House of Representatives and was the
Republican nominee for
President of the United States in the
2008 election, which he lost to
Barack
Obama.
McCain graduated from the
United States Naval Academy in 1958 and
was commissioned into the
United States Navy. He became a
naval aviator and flew
ground-attack aircraft from
aircraft carriers. During the
Vietnam
War, he was almost killed in the
1967 USS Forrestal fire. While on a bombing mission during
Operation Rolling Thunder over
Hanoi in October
1967, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the
North Vietnamese. He was a
prisoner of war until 1973. He experienced episodes of
torture and
refused an out-of-sequence early
release. The wounds that he sustained during the war left him with lifelong
physical disabilities. He retired from the Navy as a
captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona, where he entered politics. In 1982, he
was elected to the
United States House of Representatives, where he served two terms. He
entered the U.S. Senate in 1987 and easily won reelection five times, the final
time in
2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain
-- 2015 --
July 18,
2015 – Donald Trump insulted the military service of
Senator John McCain, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who endured torture and
solitary confinement as a POW in Hanoi. Trump
said in a speech at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, "He’s not a war
hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t
captured.” Trump’s comments drew boos from his audience in Iowa, as well as
widespread condemnation from Republicans and Democrats alike. Donald Trump
himself was exempted from military service after receiving four student
deferments between 1964 and 1968, and a medical deferment for a
“bone spur in his foot” after graduating from college.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-so-far-atrocities-1-546
July 20: What Donald Trump was up to while
John McCain was a prisoner of war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/20/what-donald-trump-was-up-to-while-john-mccain-was-suffering-as-a-prisoner-of-war/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.88a764389e5f
-- 2016 --
May 5: Arizona Sen. John McCain says he'll
back Donald Trump as his presidential nominee because GOP voters have had their
say.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/john-mccain-jeff-flake-donald-trump/index.html
October 8:
Arizona Sen. John McCain revokes his Trump endorsement and says
he'll write in another candidate
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-arizona-sen-john-mccain-revokes-trump-1475961057-htmlstory.html
October 15: Here's a blow-by-blow account of
the Donald Trump vs. John McCain feud
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/azdc/2016/10/15/donald-trump-vs-john-mccain-feud/91960246/
-- 2017 --
July 20: Senator John McCain], the
80-year-old Arizona Republican congressman, underwent a procedure last Friday to
remove a blood clot above his left eye at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix.
His office said that the pathology reports revealed "a primary brain tumor known
as a glioblastoma."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/an-outpouring-of-support-for-john-mccain-from-across-the-political-spectrum/
July 20: The news of Sen. John McCain's
brain cancer diagnosis was immediately met with shock and grief Wednesday night
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/19/politics/john-mccain-brain-cancer-reactions/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
July 19: Meghan McCain: Cancer will not make
my dad surrender. 'Nothing ever has.'
"The news of father's illness has affected every one of us in the McCain family.
My grandmother, mother, brothers, sister, and I have all endured the shock of
the news, and now we live with the anxiety about what comes next. It is an
experience familiar to us, given my father's previous battle with cancer — and
it is familiar to the countless American families whose loved ones are also
stricken with the tragedy of disease and the inevitability of age. If we could
ask anything of anyone now, it would be the prayers of those of you who
understand this all too well. We would be so grateful for them. "
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/07/20/meghan-mccain-statement-on-fathers-cancer/494431001/
July 20: [Senator McCain] has received an
outpouring of support from current and former lawmakers from across the
political spectrum [after being diagnosed with brain cancer].
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/an-outpouring-of-support-for-john-mccain-from-across-the-political-spectrum/
July 20: Glioblastoma is the most aggressive
type of
brain tumor. It originates in the brain; it does not spread there from
another part of the body. The cause is not known ... Because they keep
returning, glioblastomas are almost never cured, and the prognosis is poor. With
treatment, the median survival — which means half of patients live longer than
this, and half die sooner — is 12 to 18 months.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/health/john-mccain-brain-cancer.html
July 20: American Brain Tumor Association:
Glioblastomas (GBM) are tumors that arise from astrocytes—the star-shaped cells
that make up the “glue-like,” or supportive tissue of the brain. These tumors
are usually highly malignant (cancerous) because the cells reproduce quickly and
they are supported by a large network of blood vessels. ... For adults with more
aggressive glioblastoma, treated with concurrent temozolamide and radiation
therapy, median survival is about 14.6 months and two-year survival is 30%.
However, a 2009 study reported that almost 10% of patients with glioblastoma may
live five years or longer.
http://www.abta.org/brain-tumor-information/types-of-tumors/glioblastoma.html
July 28: McCain returning to Arizona to
start cancer treatment Monday
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/344326-mccain-returning-to-arizona-to-start-cancer-treatment-monday-report
October 16: Sen. John McCain warns against
'spurious nationalism' in Liberty Medal speech
https://www.nbc26.com/news/national/sen-john-mccain-warns-against-spurious-nationalism-in-liberty-medal-speech
October 16: McCain urged the U.S. toward
engagement with the world, rather than withdrawal and isolationism.
"We have done great good in the world. That leadership has had its costs, but we
have become incomparably powerful and wealthy as we did. We have a moral
obligation to continue in our just cause, and we would bring more than shame on
ourselves if we don't," he argued. "We will not thrive in a world where our
leadership and ideals are absent. We wouldn't deserve to."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-mccain-liberty-medal-speech-condemns-half-baked-spurious-nationalism/
October 17: President Donald Trump, hours
after Sen. John McCain delivered a speech that repudiated the President, warned
the Arizona Republican to “be careful” because at some point he will “fight
back.
http://newsnowtrending.com/2017/10/17/trump-warns-mccain-be-careful-because-at-some-point-i-fight-back/
October 17: When asked about Trump's
reaction to his speech and his threat to "fight back," McCain — who spent more
than five years as a prisoner of North Vietnam and is currently battling brain
cancer — said, "I've faced far greater challenges than this," according to CNN.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/10/17/trump-warns-mccain-at-some-point-fight-back-and-wont-pretty/772989001/
October 22: McCain hits Trump where it
hurts, attacking 'bone spur' deferments in Vietnam
McCain, whose
status as a war hero Trump publicly and controversially doubted as a 2016
presidential candidate, appeared to retaliate in kind against the president
in a C-SPAN interview about the Vietnam War airing Sunday night. In the
interview, McCain pointed to wealthy Americans who were able to get out of being
drafted into service in the conflict in which he spent years as a prisoner of
war. And he pointed to a very specific type of deferment which Trump just
happened to use.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/22/mccain-hits-trump-where-it-hurts-attacking-bone-spur-deferments-in-vietnam/?utm_term=.e4b7e87f0ae7
October 31:
In his speech to midshipmen Monday night at the
Naval Academy, Sen. John McCain outlined 81 years of history, briefing the
young men and women on America's fight against facism during World War II, and
its fight against communism.
"It's time to wake up."
"... the contrast between the hopeful atmosphere of 1991, and the current
circumstances of our world is a stark one," McCain said.
We have gone from a world where the global success of democracy seemed assured
for a time, to one in which the seductions of authoritarian rule find favor with
many, McCain said.
"We are asleep in our echo chambers, where our views are always affirmed, and
information that contradicts them is always fake," McCain said. "We are asleep
in our polarized politics, which exaggerates our differences and looks for
scapegoats instead of answers, and insist we get all our way all the time in a
system of government based on compromise and principled cooperation and
restraint."
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/10/31/john-mccain-naval-academy-it-time-wake-up.html
-- 2018 --
February 7:
Meghan McCain criticizes Ivanka
Trump for insisting she's not a 'political person'
May 5: Joe Biden says John McCain 'concerned
about the state of the country'
'Our international reputation is being damaged'
https://www.local10.com/news/politics/nyt-joe-biden-says-john-mccain-concerned-about-the-state-of-the-country
May 8: In his new book, Sen.
John McCain (R-AZ) defends his decision to give a
controversial dossier about President Trump to former FBI chief James Comey.
“I agreed to receive a copy of what is now referred to as ‘the dossier,’” McCain
writes in the upcoming book, titled
The Restless Wave, referencing information compiled by former British
intelligence officer Christopher Steele. “I reviewed its contents. The
allegations were disturbing, but I had no idea which if any were true. I could
not independently verify any of it, and so I did what any American who cares
about our nation’s security should have done.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mccain-confirms-he-gave-trump-dossier-to-comey-duty-demanded-i-do-it
May 11: Joking about John McCain's death is
our terrible new normal
On Thursday morning, a White House aide named Kelly Sadler joked
about Arizona Sen. John McCain's opposition to CIA nominee Gina Haspel by noting
that
"he's dying anyway."
It was the latest in a series of increasingly nasty comments about McCain:
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called it "ridiculous" that McCain wasn't planning
to invite President Donald Trump to his funeral while a
retired general on Fox News on Thursday referred to a
debunked conspiracy theory that McCain had informed on his comrades while a
prisoner of war during Vietnam.
There's no disputing the fact that McCain has terminal brain cancer and that he
is very unlikely to be around at this time next year. It's also indisputable
that McCain is a genuine American hero -- who fought and suffered for his
country in the theater of war and had decided the better part of the last four
decades of his life to public service as a House member, a senator and a
two-time presidential candidate.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/politics/donald-trump-john-mccain-death/index.html
May 11: ... the Trump right’s hate for John
McCain, explained
Featuring memes, the Vietnam War, and the 2016 presidential election.
The hate dates back to John McCain’s own run for the White House in 2007 and
2008, and even to his service during the Vietnam War, during which he was held
as a prisoner of war for more than five years and tortured for information.
And the vitriol has escalated so much in recent days, swerving into old
conspiracy theories and jokes about torture, that
Fox News banned a Trump supporter and longtime contributor from appearing on
its networks again. When it’s too much for Fox, it’s really too much.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/11/17345060/trump-mccain-2016-2018-right-wing
May 11: Fox Cuts Ties With Guest Who Cited
John McCain To Defend Torture
Tom McInerney previously has promoted the birther conspiracy theory against
President Barack Obama.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fox-cuts-ties-with-guest-who-cited-john-mccain-to-defend-torture_us_5af58ce0e4b00d7e4c19cd54
May 17: WH cancels
daily morning communications meetings after Sadler comments
A White House official confirms to Fox News,
a story first reported by the New York Times, that since the blow up over
Sadler’s remarks not only has the larger meeting been cancelled, but also the
meetings now only consist of the higher-ranking staff and have omitted the
lower-ranking staff and middle ranking staff that some in the West Wing blame
for the current leaking of information that have made the White House look
poorly in recent months.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/17/wh-cancels-daily-morning-communications-meeting-after-sadler-comments.html
August 25: John S. McCain, the proud naval
aviator who climbed from depths of despair as a prisoner of war in Vietnam to
pinnacles of power as a Republican congressman and senator from Arizona and a
two-time contender for the presidency, died on Saturday at his home in Arizona.
He was 81.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/obituaries/john-mccain-dead.html
August 25: U.S. Sen. John McCain, a
war hero who survived five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, served three
decades in Congress and went on to become the Republican Party’s nominee for
president in 2008, died Saturday. He was 81 years old.
In 1967, his A4 Skyhawk was hit by a surface-to-air missile over Hanoi. McCain
was captured by the North Vietnamese, who tortured and beat him for more than
five years. He was in solitary confinement for several of those years.
According to the New York Times, McCain has made clear to the White House he
doesn’t want Trump to attend his funeral, and would instead prefer Vice
President Mike Pence at a service.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/25/john-mccain-dead-at-81.html
August 26: Trump rejected plans for a White
House statement praising McCain
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-rejected-plans-for-a-white-house-statement-praising-mccain/2018/08/26/0d0478e4-a967-11e8-8f4b-aee063e14538_story.html?utm_term=.ef593bfeb14f
September 2: Sen.
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman both argued
that Meghan McCain was grieving when making the eulogy for her father and that –
just like the late senator himself – his daughter does not back down when
criticized.
“If you say something bad about Meghan’s father, you will know it,” Graham said
during an appearance Sunday morning on “Fox News Sunday.” “It’s okay because she
is grieving.”
Lieberman, who was once tapped to be on McCain’s presidential ticket despite
being an Independent who caucused with the Democrats, said that Meghan's father
would have been proud of her “direct” manner of speaking and added that she did
a “magnificent” job.
Meghan McCain’s eulogy, which included quotes from her father’s favorite book,
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway, and homages to his military
service, took aim at the catchphrase made famous by Trump during his 2016
presidential campaign as well as the president’s multiple draft deferments that
exempted him from serving in Vietnam.
“We gather to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap
rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice, those that live lives
of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served,” McCain said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/02/lieberman-and-graham-defend-meghan-mccain-after-targets-trump-in-fathers-eulogy.html
September 2: President Trump issued a
four-word reply Saturday after several speakers at weekend funerals for singer
Aretha Franklin and U.S. Sen. John McCain made him a focus of their remarks.
“MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” the president tweeted around 7 p.m. ET.
Earlier Saturday, Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Arizona Republican, had
alluded to Trump's slogan during her eulogy for her father, who died of brain
cancer at age 81 on Aug. 25.
“The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America
was always great,” McCain said at a memorial service at the National Cathedral
in Washington.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/02/trump-issues-4-word-reply-after-criticism-at-mccain-franklin-funerals.html
December 14: Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) will
resign at the end of this year, forcing Republican Gov. Doug Ducey to appoint a
new replacement to the late Sen. John McCain's seat ahead of a 2020 special
election to fill the last two years of McCain's term.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/14/arizona-sen-jon-kyl-resigning-at-end-of-year-1064747
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