Trump Denies Attacking McCain, Says ‘I Don't Think About Him’
Trump Denies Attacking McCain, Says ‘I Don't Think About Him’
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he was "not a fan" of the late Senator John McCain -- in part because of McCain’s decisive 2017 vote against repealing Obamacare -- but that he rarely thinks about the Arizonan.
"I’m not attacking him at all. I don’t think about him," Trump said in an interview with Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. He added, "I was not a fan, I didn’t like what he did to health care."
Trump reiterated that he was unaware of a request to move a warship bearing McCain’s name during his visit to Japan last month.
“I knew nothing about that," he said. "I’m not even sure it happened."
Last week Trump acknowledged that a “well meaning” person appeared to have requested that the U.S. Navy move the USS John S. McCain out of view before his visit to Japan, but added, “I would not have done that.”
Trump has repeatedly attacked McCain, who died in August, saying the late senator wrongly supported the war in Iraq, failed to “get the job done” for veterans and “badly” hurt the Republican party and the nation by voting against repealing Obamacare.
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