Joe.My.God. LGBT News
The Associated Press reports:
Trump spent much of the day assailing Biden, casting him as incompetent and the real threat to democracy. But he also attacked fellow Republicans, including the late Sen. John McCain of Arizona, whose “no” vote derailed GOP efforts to repeal former President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law.
“John McCain, for some reason, couldn’t get his arm up that day,” said Trump of McCain, who was shot down over Vietnam in 1967 and spent 5½ years as a prisoner of war. The injuries he suffered left him unable to lift his arms over his head for the rest of his life.
His daughter, Meghan McCain, responded on X, calling Trump an expletive and her father an “American hero.”
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John McCain couldn’t raise his arm all the way because he’d fought for our country and been tortured by our enemies.
Donald Trump is beneath contempt. https://t.co/LXXfevcWDU
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 6, 2024
A gutless, draft dodging coward like Trump wouldn’t understand, but having both arms broken in an ejector seat, then being beaten and bayoneted by a crowd when he landed in Hanoi, and then tortured in prison with iron bars, yes, John McCain had fucking trouble raising his arms. https://t.co/TzdHqimJUE
— Mike Murphy (@murphymike) January 7, 2024
Since traitor trump has yet again mocked John McCain for his time spent as a POW, a reminder:
While John McCain nearly starved to death in a tiny, squalid North Vietnamese prison cell, his body broken from a plane crash, botched operations and months of torture… Donald trump was… pic.twitter.com/AFW63ivsju— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) January 6, 2024
McCain = American Hero
Trump = American Zero https://t.co/XWXofZ1Ss2— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) January 7, 2024
Because he was tortured by the North Vietnamese as a POW and couldn’t lift his arms. https://t.co/KwLMqbRT1x
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 6, 2024