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Report: GOP Sen. Isakson plans to scold Trump over McCain attack
Diana Stancy Correll 1 hr ago

Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., says he's had enough of President Trump's attacks against the late Sen. John McCain.

Trump said Tuesday in the Oval Office that he was “never a fan of John McCain and I never will be.”

“America deserves better, the people deserve better, and nobody — regardless of their position — is above common decency and respect for people that risk their life for your life,” Isakson said, according to the Bulwark. “When the president is saying that that he doesn’t respect John McCain and he’s never going to respect John McCain and all these kids are out there listening to the president of the United States talk that way about the most decorated senator in history who is dead it just sets the worst tone possible.”

Isakson — who said on the Senate floor after McCain’s death that “anybody who in any way tarnishes the reputation of John McCain deserves a whipping” — intends to condemn Trump’s remarks on Wednesday.

“I want to do what I said that day on the floor of the Senate,” Isakson said. “I just want to lay it on the line, that the country deserves better, the McCain family deserves better, I don’t care if he’s president of United States, owns all the real estate in New York, or is building the greatest immigration system in the world. Nothing is more important than the integrity of the country and those who fought and risked their lives for all of us.”

Trump's attacks prompted McCain’s daughter Meghan to say over the weekend that she “genuinely” felt bad for Trump’s family.

On Tuesday, Trump bashed McCain again, and slammed McCain’s “disgraceful” decision to not back a Republican-led effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in 2017.

“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.

McCain, who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958 and was a naval aviator and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, died in August 2018 from brain cancer.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/report-gop-sen-isakson-plans-to-scold-trump-over-mccain-attack/ar-BBUZWW0