John McCain: Maverick.
So we’re told...
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Every Sunday, McCain makes the rounds on Television, gives an addition soundbite of disdain: providing further evidence for the legend of the Republican Maverick.
My parents taught me that actions speak louder than words: History will not be kind to Trump’s enabler, John McCain.
Trump may have the best words, but McCain’s words have the least meaning.
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Trump requests Russia hack Hillary Clinton to find the missing 30,000 emails?
McCain votes in support of Trump “removing a rule requiring oil and gas companies to report payments made by foreign governments.”
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Trump gives away codeword secret Intelligence to Russia?
McCain votes in support of Trump to “repeal a set of rules that protected consumers' online data from [being sold/used] by their own Internet providers.”
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Trump pays $10,000,000 fine in 2015 for money laundering at his Taj Mahal and $25,000,000 for defrauding students of Trump University?
McCain votes in support of Trump to “overturned a Labor Department rule requiring firms seeking federal contractors of $500,000 or more to disclose and correct any serious labor law violations committed in the last three years.”
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Trump says that those ‘Second Amendment people’ could do something about Hillary?
McCain votes in support of Trump to eliminate “rule prohibiting certain people with mental health problems from buying guns.”
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Trump leaves the Paris Climate Accord?
McCain votes in support of Trump to “overturned a stream protection rule from the Department of the Interior that restricted what mountaintop mining firms could dump into nearby waterways.”
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Trump attacks a Gold Star Family, whose son was killed in Iraq?
McCain votes in support of Trump to “eliminate worker safety regulations that aimed to track and reduce workplace injuries and deaths.”
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Trump steals from a Children’s Cancer Charity?
McCain votes with Trump to eliminate “federal standards established under President Obama that lay out which schools are serving students well and which are still struggling to do so.”
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Trump boasts of committing Sexual Assaults?
McCain votes in support of Trump to repeal rule “nullified a rule prohibiting states from withholding federal family planning dollars from clinics that provide abortion services.”
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Trump calls Philippines President Duterte to congratulate him on his murderous war on drugs?
McGain votes with Trump to “overturned a rule limiting how many unemployment applicants states could subject to drug testing.”
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Trump admits ‘to going backstage of his Miss Teen competitions to look at the naked 15-17 year old girls’ on Howard Stern in 2005?
McCain votes in support of Trump to “abolish an Obama-era requirement that every state needs to issue rating for teacher-prep courses in their state.”
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Trump uses multiple bankruptcies to stiff contractors money owed, and has been sued by the Department of Justice for racial housing discrimination in mid 1970s?
McCain votes in support of Trump to “eliminate worker safety regulations that aimed to track and reduce workplace injuries and deaths.”
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All told, John McCain has voted in support of Trump’s wishes 92.3% of the time.
Only four times has the Maverick not voted in support of Donald Trump.
Three of them were the nominations of Mick Mulvaney, Scott Pruitt, and Robert Lighthizer.
In each of those cases President Trump was able to get them confirmed, and McCain was able to add fire to his legend as a Maverick.
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We’re told he’s a maverick.
We’re told he cares about our country.
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We’re told he’s a leader, a Republican elder, a man who through a lifetime of service has shown his love of the United States of America.
Over and over, I’ve heard him express his misgivings, express his disdain for Trump’s treatment towards a disabled reporter, a Mexican judge, a Gold Star Family, express his anger at Trump’s admission to committing sexual assault…
I’m tired of him expressing himself one way in words, and then using his actions to express complete support towards Donald Trump’s wishes.
I’m tired of hearing him talk, and I’m ready to see him start acting like a leader.