Meghan McCain paid tribute to her late father Saturday morning at the Washington National Cathedral, and though she didn’t mention President Trump by name, her perceived rebuke of him in her eulogy… Politics News Summaries.
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Meghan McCain paid tribute to her late father Saturday morning at the Washington National Cathedral, and though she didn’t mention President Trump by name, her perceived rebuke of him in her eulogy is garnering notice. Time and Reuters have her lines:
CNN reports „loud and sustained applause“ followed that last line. Reuters calls her eulogy a „tearful but forceful tribute“ during which she said McCain had told her to „show them how tough you are“ when delivering it. One last excerpt: „My father had every reason to think the world was an awful place. My father had every reason to think the world was not worth fighting for. My father had every reason to think the world was worth leaving. He did not think any of those things. Like the hero of his favorite book [Robert Jordan, of Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls], John McCain took the opposite view.“ President Trump was not invited, but Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were in attendance. Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush also gave eulogies. The AP notes Obama made a „not-so-veiled“ reference to Trump too:
