Sen. John McCain lambastes president in new memoir

The following article by John Wagner of the Washington Post was posted on the StarTribune website April 30, 2018:

Senator says president puts ego before values.

Sen John McCain, R-Ariz., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, returns to his office after a series of votes at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017.

In a new memoir, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., offers a harsh assessment of President Donald Trump’s leadership, asserting that his “reality show facsimile of toughness” seems to matter more to him than the nation’s values.

In the book, McCain, who is battling brain cancer and says he feels freer to speak out because he isn’t seeking re-election, writes that he has sometimes heatedly disagreed with all six of the presidents who have held office during his 36 years on Capitol Hill.

McCain takes particular aim at Trump, a real estate developer and former reality TV star, writing that he “has declined to distinguish the actions of our government from the crimes of despotic ones.”

“The appearance of toughness, or a reality show facsimile of toughness, seems to matter more than any of our values,” McCain says. Continue reading “Sen. John McCain lambastes president in new memoir”