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McCain Touts NYT Column That Slams Trump and Questions Mental Capacity [View all]
by Aidan McLaughlin | 6:46 pm, January 13th, 2018
Sen. John McCain tweeted out a column by the New York Times’ Bret Stephens which decried President Donald Trump for his comments that immigrants from Africa are “people from shithole countries.”
The Arizona republican tweeted out Stephens’ Saturday column along with the caption “Must-read @nytimes column by @BretStephensNYT today”:
Link to tweet
The column McCain is calling a must-read? It’s a vigorous rebuke of the president’s reported comments, titled “Proud to Live in a Nation of Holers.”
Stephens starts out by describing his grandfather’s humble beginnings in Moldova, which the columnist says would surely qualify as one of Trump’s “shitholes.”
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https://www.mediaite.com/print/must-read-john-mccain-touts-nyt-column-that-slams-trump-and-questions-mental-capacity/
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