Editor,
John McCain’s greatest and most enduring gift to this country just might be his death two months before the November election.
I was one of many who thought Trump’s 2015 war hero insult –“He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured” – was enough to sink him from getting the Republican nomination. This, coming from a man who could not remember which foot his bone spur was on in order to get out of serving in the military.
Many Republicans, Independents and even a few hardcore Trump supporters think Trump has gone too far this time. His total snub of McCain and the petty and vindictive handling of the American flag immediately after the senator’s death should have Republicans worried that this backlash might benefit Democrats in both the House and Senate.
McCain’s final salvo came just before his death when he invited former presidents Bush and Obama to speak at his funeral and to make sure Trump and the American public knew that this current POTUS was not invited.
Maybe it won’t be the Mueller investigation, Manafort, Cohen, or porn stars and former Playboy models that take this president down, but the final act of a war hero.
John Rankine