Meghan McCain, “The View” co-host and daughter of Arizona Sen. John McCain, said Wednesday that she doesn’t think President Trump will personally attack her father again.
“[Mr. Trump] actually reached out to me and we had a very nice conversation and I feel comfortable going forward if he would say or do anything in the realm of talking about my father’s war injuries or something in that nature, I don’t think he would go there again,” Ms. McCain said on Politico’s “Women Rule” podcast.
“I don’t think at this point in his administration it would be beneficial to him in any way,” she said.
Ms. McCain was referring to a report in September that claimed Mr. Trump had been “physically mocking” the senator behind closed doors, imitating the thumbs-down of his historic health-care vote.
What more must my family be put through right now? This is abhorrent. https://t.co/xJmFdh93xL
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) September 27, 2017
Mr. McCain, who was diagnosed with brain cancer last year, spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. When Mr. Trump was running for the presidency, he mocked the senator for being captured.
“He’s not a war hero,” Mr. Trump said at the Iowa Family Leadership Summit in 2015. “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, OK?”
Ms. McCain said Wednesday that her father deserves more respect than that.
“I obviously wish that there would be sort of more respect in general, but my father never toes the party line, no matter who’s president,” she said.
• Jessica Chasmar can be reached at jchasmar@washingtontimes.com.
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