During an impromptu news conference on Oct. 16, referencing former presidents contacting the next of kin of fallen military, Donald Trump uttered yet another blatant lie: “So the traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls, a lot of them didn’t make calls.”
Later that day, a true patriot, John McCain, made these remarks in accepting the Liberty Medal from former Vice President Joe Biden: “To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.”
The next morning, Trump had this to say in a radio interview: “People have to be careful because at some point I fight back.”
The president added, “I’m being very, very nice but at some point I fight back and it won’t be pretty.”
To threaten a seriously ill patriot such as John McCain shows Donald Trump to be a sociopathic pig, a bully and a traitor to the to the fundamental values on which this country was founded. Trump lies as effortlessly as the rest of us breath.
JEFF FIELD
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