The president was responding to a report from The Atlantic that he made disparaging comments about veterans, including John McCain.
While denying a report from The Atlantic that he made disparaging comments about veterans, including the late Sen. John McCain, President Trump falsely claimed he never called the former Arizona senator a “loser.” Before his death in 2018, McCain frequently traded jabs with the president and was blasted by Trump repeatedly after he delivered the decisive vote — along with Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) — that rejected Republicans’ attempt to repeal Obamacare in 2017.
