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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


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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 --

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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 --        

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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.'

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"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/

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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

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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/

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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

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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

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February 7: Meghan McCain criticizes Ivanka Trump for insisting she's not a 'political person'

"The part that I find confusing about [Ivanka] is that she works in the administration; she has an office in the White House, and she has claimed not to be a political person. I don’t know how to reconcile that,” McCain told Politico’s “Women Rule” podcast. “You’re working in the White House. The White House is a political job. It’s the most powerful political job in the world.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/meghan-mccain-criticizes-ivanka-trump-for-insisting-shes-not-a-political-person/article/2648353

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.”

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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.

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“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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