McCain’s Key Role in Fueling Post-Election Trump-Russia Hysteria
American Greatness,
by
Julie Kelly
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
3/21/2019 10:18:56 AM
In his 2018 book, The Restless Wave, the late Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) wondered aloud why he was sought out and given the infamous Steele dossier shortly after the 2016 presidential election. After suggesting that anyone who questioned his role in handling the political document was indulging in “conspiracy theories,” McCain offered his explanation: “The answer is too obvious for the paranoid to credit. I am known internationally to be a persistent critic of Vladimir Putin’s regime and I have been a long while.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/21/2019 10:26:18 AM (No. 8105)
There is so much in this article that has needed to be said, especially when so many are still ready to defend and protect McCain from any criticism, especially from the man McCain tried to keep from the presidency and to remove after he was elected to the office.
FTA:
Sadly, rather than use his stature and leadership skills to soothe a nation rocked by the surprise election of Donald Trump, John McCain instead poured rhetorical gasoline on a smoldering body politic. Working in tandem with shell-shocked Obama officials desperate to find an excuse for Hillary Clinton’s humiliating loss, McCain publicly pounded the idea that Russian “hacking” was the reason for her defeat. His accusations escalated from initially decrying Russia’s sketchy interference in the election to calling it an “act of war” by December 2016.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jebediah 3/21/2019 10:34:01 AM (No. 8100)
I would prefer Trump have some dignity here and stop with the anti-McCain Tweets (though he is undoubtedly responding to questions) but have to admit that I am on his side. McCain ran on replacing ObamaCare and said he would vote to get rid of it when the time came to vote, undoubtedly allowed the US Gov. to fly him from Arizona for that vote, and then changed his mind with jubilance and a thumbs up and I KNOW it was just to spite Trump. The Country be damned. Ditto his hanging on to his Senate seat while way too weak to contribute, thus making it impossible to appoint another REPUBLICAN to the seat. I could go on and on. McCain may have had some good points (and dumping the wife who waited for him after Vietnam for a beer heiress wasn´t one of them) but he also could be a selfish, nasty s.o.b. and I was off his bandwagon long before Trump entered the picture.
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At this point, given the copious public evidence of McCain’s seditious role in the fake Russia “dossier”, the illegal FISA wiretapping/unmasking, and Hillary/Obama’s Soft Coup Attempt, that anyone defending McCain is either extraordinarily stupid or simply a very bad American.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MainelySane 3/21/2019 10:43:56 AM (No. 8115)
Does all this McCain kerfluffle mean that we´re in for another round of funeral/memorial services for the old buzzard?
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Shmowry1 3/21/2019 10:44:55 AM (No. 8113)
Sounds to me like McCain might have been duped and then doubled down to protect his legacy. Like so many involved in this awful episode, it was self interest that perpetuated the lies.
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At best the Hero John McCain was a useful idiot; at worst he was indeed an active seditionist and active coup participant. The line between is very thin. Those who believe will know John McCain got his eternal desserts. Those who don´t know that he is dead and gone.
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Toledo 3/21/2019 10:51:58 AM (No. 8106)
Sorry, Meghan but it was your Dad who was the jealous one because Trump won and your Dad lost.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rama41 3/21/2019 10:56:35 AM (No. 8116)
I´m with #2. The name "McCain" is nothing but catnip for the president. The more we read about Trump´s tweets, the less we read about the democrat train wreck.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HotRod 3/21/2019 10:59:01 AM (No. 8108)
It is said that Washington D.C. corrupts people. I think it is people that corrupt Washington, by people who know that they are doing wrong, but for selfish or ego-driven reasons do it anyway. It has become the new normal for politicians.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Clinger 3/21/2019 11:22:03 AM (No. 8110)
McCain who once campaigned on country first over party put himself above his party and his country.
Trump of course contributed to this by goading McCain and I would much prefer to have the luxury of considering his lack of tact to be an issue we can afford to care about. But this is war and we need to save the republic. Trump´s directness has been as beneficial as much as it has been cringeworthy.
Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for failing to resist the sprint to socialism. Sorry your widdow fweeings got hurt but you failed us. We turned to the only viable option that presented itself.
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CharlyG 3/21/2019 11:28:08 AM (No. 8117)
You don´t hire a sheriff to clean up the town, and then take away his gun! Everybody always has a better idea, with the caveat they don´t have all of the facts/are clueless.
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winnie1 3/21/2019 11:39:03 AM (No. 8102)
McCain send his staffer to England to get the dossier. Then when McCain was asked how he has gotten the dossier he lied and said someone just handed it to me in the halls of congress and ran off. Besides McCain starting a fire on an airplane carrier killing 134 sailors and injuring 161, he was also involved in the scandal Keating Five and earning the title of "Song Bird" handing over secrets to the enemy in Vietnam.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 3/21/2019 11:54:19 AM (No. 8111)
#12, it is absolutely NOT FACTUAL that "McCain started a fire on an airplane(sic) carrier". This is a total falsehood, it was caused by a missile which fired accidentally and struck an armed and fueled aircraft next to McCain´s. Ths sort of obvious disinformation has no place here, or anywhere else.
I am no fan of McCain, but a great fan of the truth. The truth about McCain is unflattering enough, but no need to falsify it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ToryWhite 3/21/2019 11:54:29 AM (No. 8107)
Please forward to Romney, king of Everything Avoidance Syndrome (EAS).
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ginadee 3/21/2019 12:00:06 PM (No. 8118)
Why don´t we just leave McCain dead? That"s the best place for him. Why keep him on the edge of our tongues and allow him to continue to aggravate us?
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Talk2 3/21/2019 12:06:57 PM (No. 8101)
Had McCain not been the son and grandson of Navy admirals he would have been kicked out of the Academy and if not there then out of the Navy for his decidedly inadequate flying skills.
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doctorfixit 3/21/2019 12:09:40 PM (No. 8114)
With time, bleach, and hot water, McStain will be washed from America´s underwear. But why bother? Just throw the damn underwear out.
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chase9365 3/21/2019 1:24:22 PM (No. 8109)
No wonder they sought out McCain...the one guy on the Republican side that hated Trump as much as the Dims do. Had to give their BS credibility.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/21/2019 3:17:34 PM (No. 8112)
Even from the grave, McCain is still lying. He knew about the dossier, wanted to take out Trump so he sent one of HIS people to acquire it. Hillary supposedly knew that it was all fake, and she was wise enough to not use it herself.
McCain was a corrupt and mentally rotted vulgarian, and he should be loathed as an example of what arrogance gets you. He was a lover of war, and sending young men to die in it. What a sick man he was.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 3/21/2019 4:09:45 PM (No. 8104)
Thank God he is still not around to spew his hatred.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
rochow 3/21/2019 5:03:32 PM (No. 8099)
Liar McCain just couldn´t come clean. He and his partner flew to England to get the Steele dossier. Fox had a prominent English politician on who confirmed it on Fox.
McCain, once a liar always a liar.
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Kelly goes on to say that, even at the time McCain wrote his book (and gave that defense), there was evidence that the dossier was connected to the Clinton campaign. He left all mention of that out of his book.
Kelly backs up her argument with facts delineated in this article.