Trump takes new aim at Mccain, Conway’s husband
WASHINGTON — Carrying a bitter personal feud beyond the grave, President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on the late Sen. John Mccain on Tuesday, declaring he will “never” be a fan of the Vietnam war hero and longtime Republican lawmaker who died last year of brain cancer.
“I was never a fan of John Mccain, and I never will be,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
The fresh vitriol followed Trump’s weekend tweets insulting the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, with whom he long had a fractious relationship. He repeated some of those attacks, complaining about Mccain’s vote against repealing President Barack Obama’s health-care law.
“He campaigned on repealing and replacing Mccain
Obamacare for years and then it got to a vote and he said thumbs down,” Trump said, adding — without citing evidence — that the repeal would have “saved a trillion dollars.”
Over the weekend, Trump attacked Mccain on Twitter. Among his barbs was that the longtime Arizona senator had been “last in his class” at the Naval Academy. But while Mccain famously racked up demerits and earned poor grades, he ultimately graduated fifth from the bottom of his 1958 class.
Also Tuesday, Trump barreled into an awkward public fight with the spouse of a top aide, labeling George Conway, the husband of Kellyanne Conway, on Twitter as “A total loser!”’
George Conway, an attorney, has repeatedly questioned the president’s mental health, including over the weekend.
Trump also retweeted a message from his campaign manager claiming the president didn’t know George Conway. But George Conway told The Washington Post that he had had a number of conversations with Trump over the past decade. Conway said he tweets “so I don’t end up screaming” at his wife about the president.
Kellyanne Conway is considered one of the president’s closest advisers and is a highprofile face on television defending his policies.
Asked Monday if she agreed with her husband’s assessment of Trump, Kellyanne Conway said: “No, I don’t share those concerns.”