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President Donald Trump is not abandoning his longtime criticism of the late Senator John McCain. Trump told the White House Tuesday: "I've never been a fan of John McCain and I'll never be one." (March 19th)
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WASHINGTON – Republican Senator Mitt Romney has criticized President Donald Trump for a series of attacks against the late Senator John McCain, whom Romney has described as "honorable" and "brave".

Romney, in a tweet Tuesday evening, hailed McCain, a long-time senator, veteran and former prisoner of war, and questioned the reasoning behind the Trump attacks, which continued Tuesday – months after McCain's death in August after a battle against brain cancer.

"I do not understand why the president would once again denigrate a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic and duty-bound to his family, his country and God, "Romney wrote on Twitter.

Earlier Tuesday, Trump defended his ongoing attacks at McCain and said he had never liked the Arizona senator because of differences over health care and Russia.

"I've never been a fan of John McCain and I'll never be," Trump told the White House before meeting with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

It's far from the first time that Romney, elected last year, has criticized the president. Just before being sworn in January, Romney wrote in an opinion piece that Trump had "not been up to the task."

Donald Trump and Mitt Romney in Las Vegas in 2012. (Photo: Michael Nelson, ChPC)

Donald Trump: "I've never been a fan of John McCain and I'll never be one"

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"With a nation so divided, resentful and angry, a presidential leadership with qualities of character is indispensable," wrote the Republican of Utah and the presidential candidate of 2012 in an editorial published in the Washington Post, Tuesday night. the shortfall of the licensee was the most glaring. "

Prior to the 2016 election, Romney called Trump "fraud" and opposed his appointment. The two then made peace, but it seems that goodwill has not been sustainable.

McCain's supporters said they did not understand why Trump would continually criticize a dead man, particularly a man who represented Republicans as president in 2008.

During a series of tweets over the weekend, Trump met McCain for handling a briefing by a former British spy on Trump's relationship with Russia before the 2016 election.

"So it's good John McCain (Annapolis) who sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and the media in the hope of having it printed BEFORE the elections, recently tweeted Sunday." He and the Dems, working together, have failed (as usual). Even the Fake News refused this junk! "

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"I am a Democrat and I love John McCain. Former Vice President Joe Biden spoke of his unlikely friendship with John McCain at the senator's memorial.
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Trump also blamed McCain for voting against the Republican health plan.

McCain's supporters pointed out that Trump was wrong about the class quality of the late senator. He finished fifth in the last rank at the Naval Academy, a subject he frequently joked about. They also described the attacks as disrespectful to the long-time senator, veteran and former prisoner of war.

"Your life is spent in weekends, not with your family, nor with your friends, but obsessed, obsessed with great men that you could never be up to," said his daughter Meghan McCain on his TV show. The View ".

The Trump-McCain quarrel dates back to the summer of 2015, when Trump lit it up by mocking McCain's experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

"This is not a war hero," Trump said. "He's a war hero because he's been captured, I like people who have not been captured."

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