McCain makes his point, or not

Sen. John McCain was the last senator to grill Comey during his public testimony. McCain’s questions were expected to be pointed, but instead, his fellow senators, Comey and most people on the Internet were left confused, to say the least.

During a hard-to-follow line of questioning, McCain pressed Comey about his investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email use.

“She was clearly involved in this whole situation where fake news, as you just described it, ‘big deal,’ took place. You’re going to have to help me out here. In other words, we’re complete — the investigation of anything that former Secretary Clinton had to do with a campaign is over and we don’t have to worry about it anymore?”

Comey did not follow, but McCain continued to ask about the investigation regarding Clinton, compared with the Russia investigation involving Trump.

“I think the American people have a whole lot of questions,” he asked at one point.

The American people did have questions, and made that point in not-too-nice Twitter posts and memes noting the 80-year-old Arizona Republican’s age. Namely, what was McCain talking about?

He apparently noticed, and chose to clear things up later in a statement, blaming his performance on the fact that he stayed up too late watching baseball (at least his team, the Arizona Diamondbacks, won the game).