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Senator John McCain has passed away after a lifetime of political service. Take a look back at some of his most memorable moments.
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Senator John McCain’s Most Memorable Political Moments | NBC News
Trump crazies are true demons, just look at their comments for a real hero.
Evelyn Hu
KARMA & TRUMP ARE LAUGHING 😁😂😂😁😂😋😋TRUMP2020!!!
@Ryan
BS! You ought to be ashamed of yourself!
R.I.P. and thanks for your service and you are our Americans Hero.
Cowards like Trump shrink in the presence of a true hero like McCain.
That’s why wouldn’t acknowledge McCain during his illness
Rest in deserved Peace.
George Lewis
Karma is laughing!!
Believe me! I am the ALPHA HERO! More heroic than decorated vets McCain Kerry or Mueller! dared to castrate my own US Intelligence guys at Helsinki and blow the Butcher of Chechnya in front of the world! I escalated Yemen Somalia death by FIVE fold! I flaunted my airstrike prowess and boosted my Saudi buddy’s mighty fire power and caused TWENTY TIMES civilian death at Iraq and Syria! No-one tortured more caged toddlers and seductive underage girls as I did! I empowered Kim Jong Un for Putin and together we Axis of Nuke-mongers hold 100 million Koreans and Japanese hostage with global nuclear war threats! I win NOBEL BEAST PRIZE!
I agree. I would not want a Trump who carries the Spirit of SATAN at my funeral either. God bless our blessed senator McCain
Ask ukraine.
McCain was a traitor until the day he died. You aren’t worthy to even talk about our POTUS.
PRAISE THE GOOD LORD & LADY KARMA FOR DOING THERE JOB ON BEHALF OF ALL TRUMP SUPPORTERS,THANK YOU VERY MUCH! TRUMP2020
At least show some respect, he did more than you guys, I’m sure you are mamas boys never serve in the military and hasn’t accomplished nothing in your life…
just one less republican
You should be ashamed of yourself. Country and honor over party. I am a Democrat and I believe we have lost a hero tonight. You should be able to see past party affiliation and look at their actions.
President Trump about to tweet something crazy about this man and take over the news again. Wait for it. Just wait for it. I hope I am wrong. Prayers for the McCain family.
Looks like his press rep wrote it for him.
WRONG! I will pull my Trump Card! My favorite Dehumanization card! I will ignore him and his family with deafening silence like Ivanka snubbed Larry Nassar MeToo crybabies with deafening silence! I will not make it about HIM! I will make it about LOYALTY to ME!
McCain was the embodiment of what a man with guts looks like. A man who flew his plane to enemy territory is a man with guts. A man who became a prisoner of war and refused to leave unless his fellow soldiers were freed from captivity is a man with guts. A man who took on a job no other American will do and that was running against then potential first African American President of the United States- [ now Former President Obama] at a time when even pets were for Obama, that requires a lot of guts. A man who boldly told the doctors to stop delaying God and let God have His way with him today is a man with lots of guts. My prayers with the McCain family.
Umm Dave not all blacks are liberals. Do not be afraid of facts. Make facts your friend and you will never regret it. People like you are the reason why I have no affiliation with any political party of today. Political parties are a curse for any country.
He bombed orphanages in Hanoi.
Daniel you always forget to add that the enemy combative hid among the orphans. Is it humane to hide in the midst of defenseless citizens during war? And do not say it as though he did it at will. He was under the command of the US government. This is the terrible cost of war.
@Dave I see what you are up to. If maturity is all about hating, fighting each other, calling names and getting nothing done for decades, then I will stay on the baby formula of peace and togetherness.
This comment section truly saddens me.
@Terri Freeman and with john mcCain’s mom as well
what saddens you? the massive outpour and respect and generous comments towards McCain? just to let you know, ive read the top 30 comments and ive yet to find a person say something bad.. What are you talking about? by the way this comment was the first one.. shame on you.
@Daniel Lassche it was 2 years ago
Democrats (of which I’m one) need to have some respect. Don’t be like 45 did to Mollie Tibbetts’ family. When they (tea party) go low, we go high! Remember how McCain voted on Obamacare- one of his last votes.
Of course we respect him – we may not have agreed with his policies, but he still respected and treated his political opponent as a human being and not just as a competitor, and of course his service in Nam was heroic.
Bye bye Zi0nist AIPAC bribed puppet!
McCuck supported this abominable place!
‘Israeli lawmaker tears up “abominable” New Testament, throws it in trash’ – CNN Headline
“Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them” – Haaretz Israeli newspaper headline
@cread 61o
He/she can’t. Because whoever it is, they’re a troll.
Who stuffed your useless head with this garbage? You couldn’t possibly know all these “facts” without ever meeting and knowing the man. Remember: just because you want something to be true doesn’t mean it IS true. Like when your mom told you what a special little boy you are.
@John 3 16
You know, something bothers me. You changed your name on YouTube to John 3:16, meaning you think you’re a Christian. Yet, your behavior on YouTube is about as far from Christianity as you can get. One thing I know for certain. We’re supposed to emulate Jesus as Christians. Jesus wasn’t a jerk to people. How do you expect to witness to anyone, acting like that? It would serve you and those you witness to well for you to read 1st Corinthians 13. It tells us exactly how to show love & we’re supposed to love others to Christ. In it, it says love keeps no record of wrongs. That’s exactly what you did in this thread about McCain.
Jesus didn’t die on the cross for your stupidity.
#ZIONIST911
THANK GOD!
RIP John McCain .Please people have a little respect for the passing please
cread 61o I did it’s terrible like I said before I’ll let God be the judge at this point . To celebrate someone’s death is unholy
I completely agree with both of you. This hate being spewed, no matter what he might’ve done in the past, only his his family. Not him. It’s not very becoming of anyone who professes to be a Christian, either.
Well …………………….. bye felicia.
Sen. John McCain’s track record regarding waste, fraud and abuse connected to the Department of Defense (DoD). McCain holds himself out as a fiscal conservative who is tight with a buck. Each year, when Congress takes up the various appropriations bills, McCain rails against the various earmarks which his fellow senators insert to direct spending to their states.
On May 23 of this year, McCain lashed out at the DoD’s deal with Boeing on aerial tankers saying “I am extremely disappointed that the Department of Defense has approved the lease of Boeing 767 aircraft for use as aerial tankers, a profligate waste of federal revenues. This is a great deal for the Boeing Company that I’m sure is the envy of corporate lobbyists from one end of K Street to the other. But it’s a lousy deal for the Air Force and for the American taxpayer.” McCain continued “In all my years in Congress, I have never seen the security and fiduciary responsibilities of the federal government quite so nakedly subordinated to the interests of one defense manufacturer.”
These statements ring hollow given the fact that between 1985-1992 McCain pocketed $8,000 in PAC money from Boeing. Since 1990 the company has had 36 instances of misconduct and alleged misconduct concerning the area of government contracts. Boeing has paid $357,973,000 in fines/penalties, restitutions and settlements as a result of their taxpayer rip-offs. In 1998 Boeing was charged with 207 violations of the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Boeing allegedly unlawfully exported defense articles to Russia, Ukraine and Norway. The company paid a $10 million civil penalty. In 2000, Boeing was charged with 110 violations regarding the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. The charges pertained to munitions and defense articles (technical data) exported to Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey, Spain and Italy. Boeing paid a civil penalty of $4.2 million. In April 2006, Boeing paid a fine of $15 million to settle federal allegations that it broke the law by selling commercial airplanes equipped with a small chip that has military applications. It is among the largest fines a company has ever faced for violations of the Arms Control Export Act, which regulates the sale of defense products to overseas interests. In May 2006, Boeing agreed to pay $615 million to end a three-year Justice Department investigation into reported defense contracting scandals.
McCain’s hypocrisy is significant because as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (he is now the ranking minority member), he has feasted on PAC money from the defense industry. During his first term in the Senate, McCain accepted campaign cash totaling $58,200 from political action committees of corporations and prime defense contractors who were convicted of defrauding the Pentagon on weapons contracts, or have been accused of cheating the American taxpayer.
Consider the following examples from early in McCain’s Senate tenure:
GTE Corporation: In September 1985 its Government Systems Division pleaded guilty to improperly obtaining internal Pentagon planning documents, and agreed to pay $580,000 to DoD for the costs of the investigation. Total contributions to McCain: $5,000.
Litton Industries: In July 1986, the massive shipbuilder agreed to pay $15 million in penalties and restitution to DoD. It had pleaded guilty to defrauding the Pentagon of $6.3 million in its military work at that time. Total contributions to McCain: $10,300.
Unisys Corporation: In June 1991, the firm paid a $190 million fine for a wide-ranging conspiracy to use inside information to defraud the government to bid on Pentagon contracts. Total contributions to McCain: $2,300.
United Technologies Corporation: On August 28, 1992, the company pleaded guilty to four felony counts and agreed to pay $6 million in penalties for admitting to conspiring to defraud the government by using insider information to bid on two Pentagon contracts. Total contributions to McCain: $5,600.
So while McCain talks tough today about the Boeing tanker deal today, he has looked the other way early in his career when the Reagan and Bush I administrations did not aggressively prosecute military contract fraud under the False Claims Act. In fact in McCain’s first Senate term, the Department of Justice succeeded in pushing Congress to consider weakening the act by prohibiting government employees from bringing cases under it. In about half of the more than 300 False Claims lawsuits filed by citizens since the law was strengthened, the government decided to take no action at all during that timeframe.
In the Pentagon/Justice Department joint undercover sting Operation Ill Wind to crack down on Pentagon fraud, the total penalties of $420 million was less than half the cost of a single B-2 stealth bomber.
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John RIP ⚰ be advised Iran has NOT been bombed.
I am more heroic than decorated vets McCain Kerry or Mueller! dared to castrate my own US Intelligence guys at Helsinki and blow the Butcher of Chechnya in front of the world! I escalated Yemen Somalia death by FIVE fold! I flaunted my airstrike prowess and boosted my Saudi buddy’s mighty fire power and caused TWENTY TIMES civilian death at Iraq and Syria! No-one tortured more caged toddlers and seductive underage girls as I did! I empowered Kim Jong Un for Putin and together we Axis of Nuke-mongers hold 100 million Koreans and Japanese hostage with global nuclear war threats! I win NOBEL BEAST PRIZE!
So went the last honorable Republican patriot. RIP patriotic GOP. Say hi to Gestapo of Putin.
Not the last. Trump’s presidency will serve to bring harmony to our republic. If we could not unite on issues before, we may at least unite against bigotry and despotism now.
Demo-rats? Where? What are those
Binary mind spotted
So what exactly are Trumpists winning with their McCain-trashing? Medals of Dishonor of Traitor in Chief? Honorary Russian citizenship?
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R.I.P American Hero
A republican loved by the left but hated by the right mmmmmm
Say whatever you want about McCain, but he’s a true American patriot and a man of deep and sincere convictions; a gentleman who has morals and someone you can do business with, unlike so many of his other colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Rest in peace, hero. You are respected, even in Singapore where I am.
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Tribute to John McCain
You were born in Panama
in a hospital with your Mama.
She’s one hundred and six and full of fun
and you crapped out at a mere eighty-one.
May your rotting remains, that abound in germs,
feed thousands of hungry maggots and worms.
danm just heard the news that he passed today plus next week he turned 82 too. RIP
John McCain. The greatest president you never had.
He couldn’t win. When he sold out his party in the end, it showed it was a good thing he didn’t win.
God bless you always Beautiful brother and friend. You have been such a Huge Blessing to all Americans. We love you and will miss you so much. 😢 R.I.P Eternally until we all meet up in heaven together
He will be known as a fascist war monger.
In America we don’t have a living legend, once they die everyone will notice them and cry for them , I remember when he was a presidential candid the left and lefty Media was making a monster out him, Do you remember?
He voted against Martin Luther King Jr Day.
I don’t revel in anyone’s pain. All the same it’s good to be honest about this man. He was a traitor. He was deep state. He was against the American people (thumbs down).
i am also against the american,….. i wouldnt exacrly call you people but,…
John McCain lived to be 81. But Mollie Tibbetts will never have that chance.She died at 22. And we won’t forget.
War hawk.. who thinks military intervention is always solution.
Dangerous. Glad he’s gone. Fascist War Monger.
BOMB IRAN!!! MCCAIN WOULD LIKE IT!!!
A great and good man has gone away, he’s lost to us.
Please God someone will rise up and fill this huge gap he left
Hopefully he found God and repented before he died because the stuff I hear him being involved in is not very good. I don’t wish death on anyone but lets be honest, if your involved in Government 99% chance you are corrupt.
you’re. god hates bad grammar.
One of the most honest and sincere politicians we have ever known. Rest in peace, John McCain.
And also, to you monsters in the comments, all I’m gonna say is this: I don’t care what you thought of him. The least you can do is show some respect during this time of grieving.
He was a sell out in the end. https://wethepeopledaily.com/2019/12/27/ig-report-reveals-dirty-secret-about-john-mccain/
Like the respect he showed for the people he killed in Iraq right?
Youre delusional Alison
McCain went out with the middle finger extended.
He showed his true colors in the end. Sell out at best to his party and the American people.
@Andy Taylor Shut up and have some respect.
How stupid can you be, don’t you people to respect you when you die?
Well, I hope no one will, because judging by this comment you are a horrible human being.
Andy Taylor you are a sell out no one will remember when you die.
@Kieran S. No respect for sellouts to their country. Do you respect Hitler? He is dead. Death has nothing to do whether a person is worthy of respect. McCain was a political sellout in the end and that is how many true patriots in America will remember. him.
@Will Actually, people will remember all of us. Some will have more than others. McCain had an opportunity to something big at the end of his life but he sold-out because he was butthurt he lost an election and then a non politician like Trump came in and showed him and Mitt Romney how incompetent they were.
I didn’t agree with Senator McCain on many issues, but I can’t think think of too many politician’s, on both sides, that I respect as much as I do Senator John McCain. What this man endured for his country is unbelievable. I didn’t agree with many of his policies, but I disagree more with the views about him bombing an orphanage ( war is ugly, this man was fighting for our country, not making them decisions), I disagree with those who say he wasn’t a true conservative because of him crossing the aisle ( I have much more respect for any politician that agrees with the other side occasionally). RIP Senator McCain
Perhabs his greatest moment was when he, like a real man, defended his opponent from racial slurs.
Pitcher of a very sick man.
He never defended Cosby from racial slurs
Did that Woman say that Obama is an Arab? 😂😂😂
@daybrayer I think so 😂😂
Well done McCain
This man should have been president
Even though my alignment is with Democrats, McCain would’ve been a good president
Yes more wars! gotta get all of that oil no matter how many young men we send to die
As an Obama fan, he would’ve been an acceptable president, Atleast he was a good man who cared for all americans
@Bradley Melchor
He was a self serving warmongrer. Support of the Iraq war should automatically disqualify anyone from being president.
@P77777777 He would have been better than the shithole we have rn
What a great politicians and I mean it. It’s hard to find people like him who transcends beyond political differences and demonstrate decency and respect for other fellow politicians. A great example of a good human being. RIP senator McCain
This man was a soldier, right to the very end.
he was fortunate son
he a war monger
@Alexandra P. that applies to my comment how?
Our country would be a better place if McCain had never gone into politics.
He was a war monger, are you guys living in another dimension??? He was involved with creating ISIS for f!cks sake.
Wish you were still with us McCain. C’mon USA, don’t let this decent man be just a distant memory. Continue the underdog fight, keep going and going, never give up, bring the country together for the good of the people
this man called asian people the g-word
geeks?
I DONT REMEMBER WHAT THE RACIAL SLUR FOR ASIANS ARE IM PTSD DRINKING
I heard he was put to deth for being a traitor sounds true to.me.
He wasn’t put to death, he died of cancer. And he was no traitor, he was an American Patriot and hero
War mongering corporate anti-American.
Hura schwein ist tot
I never see any high level like John McCain middle at night comes out vote
with thumb down !! John McCain is a traitors the HaNoi sings bird he got
execute just right on the money, USA do not need traitors so bad like
John McCain he is so illiterate!!
The best president the US never had – only good he lost because of his ill advised choice for VP. He would quite possibly have been better than Obama. Am actually getting teary-eyed thinking about how his version of collaboration across parties seems to have been completely lost in the last few years, even in once-consensus-seeking Europe.
McCain was prone to political camouflage because he was motivated largely by naked ambition. Perhaps McCain’s greatest victory is that he died having achieved the “fame and influence” he had always craved by the media class that had once rejected him.
dude you never subcome to fame and influence after resisting torture?
SICK AND EVIL IS WHAT SICK DID!
I didnt know much of him before, but im sure that people who did know him were better off than most.
What a man rest easy.. I would’ve had trouble choosing in 08’ if I was a voter
Fr man, I wish every election could have candidates both as good as in ‘08
HE DID NOT WIN! Get over this dead man!
Wow you really are twisted
This evil man is a pedofile
We lost an amazing man
Here is the real story: https://wethepeopledaily.com/2019/12/27/ig-report-reveals-dirty-secret-about-john-mccain/
The only republican I’ve ever liked!
R.I.N.O.
Andy Taylor not funny did not laugh
@Andy Taylor just because a republican disliked trump,doesn’t mean that he/she is a R.I.N.O
@A Amaravel Probably means they are anti-America too… especially if they are siding with Joe Biden.
“The Justice Department’s recent Inspector General report revealed a rather troubling fact about McCain and his particular role in setting off a witch hunt against President Trump.
The report reveals that the late senator worked with Christopher Steele to provide disgraced former FBI chief James Comey intel even after Steele was terminated as FBI Source.
McCain provided disgraced former FBI chief James Comey with five separate reports from Christopher Steele that the FBI didn’t previously possess related to unsubstantiated allegations of collusion between Russia and President Trump’s 2016 campaign.
There have long been questions about why it was necessary for McCain to pass Steele’s anti-Trump dossier to Comey on December 9, 2016, several weeks after the November 2016 presidential election. By then, Steele had already met numerous times with FBI agents to provide them with his controversial reports.
Steele, however, was terminated as an FBI source in the fall of 2016 because he spoke to the news media.
The IG report discloses that McCain acted as a vessel for Steele to pass along the five new reports to Comey. This means that McCain worked with the Ex British Spy even after he was cut off by the FBI as an official source.
It is not clear whether McCain knew at the time that Steele had previously been terminated as an FBI source.
The IG report also verifies that a McCain aid obtained the Steele reports directly from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, meaning that when McCain transferred the anti-Trump charges to Comey he had to have known that the material originated with a firm that specializes in controversial opposition tactics.
Fusion GPS was paid for its anti-Trump work by Trump’s primary political opponents, namely Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) via the Perkins Coie law firm.” ~We The People Daily
In time, John McCain will be remembered more than some people who actually won the presidency.
History remembers those who sought to do the right thing, John McCain was probably the last respectable rebublican in the senate.
@Cosmo This is a fact.
Cosmo not true just because Donald a bad person doesn’t mean all republicans are
@Cosmo Susan collins and Lisa Murkowski????
@Cosmo LMAO. McCain was a Democrat dressed up as a Republican.
He’s horrible man he order the bombing of Serbian civilians and killed thousand of people.
Mateja Micakovic I think your a horrible person
@Will no, you
he was a fortunate son
The Truth from
a Vietnam vet https://youtu.be/EHF0yXrwr-0
Tim at Turtle Bay has AIDS.
A great American
America loves winner
This is the grossest comment section I’ve ever seen
Just an ASSET 😀 😀
Pig face Mc Cain
The republicans did not deserve Sen. John McCain.
Trump and his supporters brings great shame to America with their hate. They are no Republicans. They are most uncultured, uneducated, ignorant, shameless bunch of people I have ever seen.
The voters hate for the opposition blinds them to Trump’s stupidity or the worst will be that Trump resonates the voters themselves.
America is a nation of immigrants built by the immigrants, a land full of opportunities for anyone who was willing to work hard for it, attracting the best talents and leading the way for the world to follow.That is what made America great.
America can never be great when we have people carrying so much hate.
Hope that someday we have a president who can unite the nation to make it great again.
Another soldier, loyal to the end.
This man his sooo sooo good. God son
Senator McCain to sleepy eyes Chuck Todd ,” I hate the press, I hate you especially but we need free press..”. He never call the press the enemy of the people. He is an honorable man. Rest In Peace senator
@Charles Jaggers the man rests in peace. Country first, political view aside. He is a veteran, US senator, a POW. Maybe you should sign up to defend the country and get captured to endure what he endured. Then talk about Rino
i want to know how John McCain’s vegetable friends are.
Glad that little weasel is gone !!
John McCain is “meeting” with 132 men from The USS Forrestal as we speak
Hi, I’m not from the USA, but I’m curious, what is the USS Forrestal?
@Luis an aircraft carrier
RIP
What a man, warrior blood. Mahalo
Whatever u say Mr McCain was a gentleman
Rest in peace ❤️❤️❤️❤️.
You made America a better democracy.
There are no more Statesmen. Only partisan politics. In 21st century America, Diogenes would come up empty. God help America.
John McCain was a good man, and will be remembered as such.
He left too soon, but did SO MUCH for our nation! Truly a Legend to be decorated across our Nation’s History!!!
Este viejo negativo para la política America que quieren ahora ponerlo de Santo. A quien quieren engañar
I might not have always agreed with his policies but he seemed to be a great person despite working in Washington
Away!
God I truly, truly love and dearly loved and miss that man. He WAS the epitome of greatness unlike the pig we ever had and have in the White House.
He may have not been my vote, but he won my heart! <3
TERRIBLY MISSED, TRULY NEEDED, EVERY TRUMP SUPPORTER NEEDS TO WATCH THIS.?
The G.O.P died along with John McCain. Rest in peace. The last good republican.
He is not the last. But he was the last in power.
Romney Good too
@NovaZeox ツ romney is okay. Mccain was outstanding.
I don’t think Romney is bad. But yes. Mccain was a great man. Rest In Peace.
I hope this man RsIP. That being said, his legacy is that of allowing the Left to successfully move the political goalposts left for decades. Look no further to our nation’s current trouble or ask how we got here than former Senator John McCain, RIP.
Great man.
I am a Democrat and I love John McCain
Give me a break. This same network attacked McCain and his family along with Sarah Palin’s nonstop and viciously 24/7 in 2008 and tried their best to destroy him. This is why the media has ZERO credibility with half the country. They said way worse things than “He isn’t a hero.”
I as a german say that he is an american Hero with so much Honor )
Wake up “decent human being”