{"id":31971,"date":"2018-08-27T01:20:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T01:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31971"},"modified":"2018-08-27T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:36:00","slug":"disinvited-to-a-leading-senators-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31971","title":{"rendered":"Disinvited to a leading senator’s funeral?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I cannot remember this ever happening: a president of the United States is disinvited to the funeral of a leading political figure … of his own political party at that!<\/em><\/p>\n

They’ll have a funeral soon for the late Sen. John McCain — and, yes, it’s strange to type the word “late” in front of this man’s name — but the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been told not to attend. McCain reportedly said he didn’t want the president there.<\/p>\n

The two men had serious political differences to be sure. However, Trump took it to a different level. He denigrated the senator’s Vietnam War record; and while McCain was fighting the cancer that killed him, he continued to rail against him for casting a “no” vote that preserved the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

McCain had enough. He let it be known he didn’t want Trump at his funeral.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what the president will do. His presence will serve as a serious distraction, given all the trouble he is in on so many fronts.<\/p>\n

I just hope Sen. McCain will get the farewell he deserves from men and women he respected — and who respected him in return.<\/p>\n\n

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I cannot remember this ever happening: a president of the United States is disinvited to the funeral of a leading political figure … of his own political party at that! They’ll have a funeral soon for the late Sen. John McCain — and, yes, it’s strange to type the word “late” in front of this … Continue reading Disinvited to a leading senator’s funeral?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7932,13],"tags":[2546],"class_list":["post-31971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-national-news","tag-john-mccain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31973,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31971\/revisions\/31973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}