President Trump on Tuesday continued his attacks on the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., declaring he was “never a fan of John McCain and I never will be.”
“I’m very unhappy that he didn’t repeal and replace Obamacare, as you know. He campaigned on repealing and replacing Obamacare for years and then they got to a vote and he said thumbs down,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
Trump said that had Congress passed legislation repealing and replacing the 2010 healthcare law, the country would’ve saved $1 trillion and had “great healthcare.”
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The president also suggested McCain promised to support the GOP’s efforts to dismantle Obamacare but went back on his word.
“So he campaigned, he told us hours before that he was going to repeal and replace. Then, for some reason — I think I understand the reason — he ended up going thumbs up,” he said, apparently meaning to say “thumbs down.”
Trump called McCain’s deciding vote against a “skinny repeal” of Obamacare “disgraceful.”
The president’s comments came after he spent the weekend lobbing attacks on the late Arizona senator on Twitter.
In one tweet reacting to recently released court documents, Trump claimed McCain was last in his class at the U.S. Naval Academy and accused him of sending the so-called Trump dossier containing unverified claims about his ties to Russia to the FBI before the 2016 presidential election.
He also retweeted a supporter who claimed “millions of Americans truly LOVE President Trump, not McCain.”
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