McCain on Trump's wiretap claim: 'I haven't seen anything like this'

[mobeau69]

Source: Politico

Sen. John McCain on Monday demanded the release of any evidence backing up President Donald Trump's claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in the run-up to the presidential election, blasting the White House’s refusal to answer additional questions about the matter.

McCain said the American people “have a right to know on what basis the president of the United States said that his predecessor had broken the law by wiretapping Trump Tower.”

“I haven't seen anything like this,” the Arizona Republican told reporters, explaining that the Trump administration “should answer questions.”

“The American people should demand it,” McCain continued. “The dimensions of this are huge.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/mccain-trump-wiretapping-235749

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[Honeycombe8]

1. Way to go, McCain. One of the few Repubs...

who dares challenge the Trump W.H.

[charlyvi]

8. Until it comes to vote time

Then he falls in line, just like Collins R-Maine.

[mountain grammy]

12. Yep!

[dbackjon]

27. Yup - been saying that anytime anyone praises McCain

He's a rubberstamp for Trump.


Traitor, indeed.

[Honeycombe8]

33. No, he's not. But he IS Republican.

Trump is a rubberstamp for the Republicans. He's promised to go along with some Republican wish list items, if they back his wish list items.

It's not required to hate Republicans or people whose views differ on some issues. Reasonable people can differ on some issues. McCain is a moderate and not one of the rightwingnut crowd.

[dbackjon]

38. He is NOT a moderate, and supports the wingnuts crowd.

And I can and WILL hate people that hate me for who I am.

[Honeycombe8]

34. It's not a requirement that Dems have to hate Repubs. They vote differently...

because they vote along party lines. BOTH parties do. He votes Republican. But he is an old-time regular Republican and not one of the alt-right or Tea Partiers. He came out against torture, against one of more of the wars, as I recall, and has defended Obama publicly against those who claimed he was a Muslim & such.

I recognize a stand-up guy when I see him. It's hard to go against the crowd. How many Dems do you see who have come out against a Democratic Party issue? There would be some % who are against some Dem Party issues, but few publicly go against them, because it would cost them votes. It's a brave thing to go against your party. IMO.

Susan Collins votes Republican. But she is one of the few Republicans brave enough to state the obvious about Trump: He is unfit for office. None of the male Republicans would say it. She also voted AGAINST DeVos. True, her vote didn't count. But the fact remains that she did vote against DeVos, and we all know that Trump will remember that.

I like Collins, too...for a Republican. I just don't hate people who don't agree with all my views, I guess.

[charlyvi]

36. I do not hate people who disagree with my views either

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And you owe me an apology for implying that I do.

John McCain and Susan Collins vote the way their party wants them to; that is a fact. I don't think McCain is a stand up guy.....his Sarah Palin pander to the base and his "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" joke did it for me. I don't hate him, but I don't view him with rose colored glasses either.

One vote against DeVos does not erase all the hundreds of other party line votes Collins has cast. if you want to judge these folks by what they say, and ignore 99% of their voting record fine. I'm not that easily charmed. And, once again, you owe me an apology for insinuating that I hate people who disagree with me. For instance, I don't hate you.

[Honeycombe8]

37. We agree to disagree.

No, I don't owe you an apology. One belongs to a party to support the part platform, so most SHOULD vote the way their party wants them to, and in actuality, most WANT to vote in support of their party. Most Dems vote to support their party's platform.

One vote against DeVos doesn't change things, but it's more than MOST Republicans did, and something most Dems don't do...vote against the Prez's nominee. Most people of both parties don't do that. So kudos where kudos are due.

Imagine if a Democratic senator or rep had been offended by something Obama had done, and stated publicly he was unfit for office. Not a usual thing for someone in a party to do. Collins did just that re Trump. That is a strong stance. Trump will remember it.

I owe you no apology for stating that you hold someone's vote against them for voting to support their party's platform. I do not. That's WHY they belong to that party, whatever the party may be.

I didn't say YOU hate them, anyway. I said I DON'T hate them.

You owe me an apology for misrepresenting what I said.

[charlyvi]

39. I owe you nothing

You ended your prior post with a snarky self-righteous comment that was totally wrong, and you are not an honorable enough person to apologize for it. However, you will never do it again. Goodbye.

[adigal]

31. McCain is so full of shit it comes out his mouth, ears, eyes.......

He talks a good game, but he is a coward. I can't stand him.

[Honeycombe8]

32. I like him. It takes courage to stand up to Trump.

There aren't many others who are doing that.

He's a good guy. He IS Republican, so those are his policies, but disregarding political party, he's a fairly honest, legit politician. He also took a stand against torture, against some of the wars, and against the crazy birtherism and wacko talk about Obama being an Arab and Muslim and such.

[adigal]

35. Give me ONE TIME he stood up to Trump??? Crickets.......

He doesn't. He just talks a good game.

[2naSalit]

2. Except...

“The American people should demand it,”

Hello, we ARE demanding it. Nobody is listening to us even as we show up by the thousands, nay, millions demanding.

[ProudLib72]

5. Kind of like

demanding to see the tax return.

[marybourg]

7. I personally have demanded

quite a few things from Sen. McCain in recent weeks and have gotten nothing. I did send him a thank you e-mail for this statement, though. His website was unusually slow tonight.

[riversedge]

24. The media needs to ask this over and over and over.. when they have a RW on or when a Trump

spokesperson is on, instead of letting them spew their talking points over and over and over!!

[Luciferous]

3. We need more Republicans to speak up. He is going to destroy this country and they

don't give a shit.

[2naSalit]

6. they think they can rebuild it in their own imagi-nation.....nt

[riversedge]

25. Trump is actually helping the Republicans in Congress get their vile agenda passed by his

constant and escalating comments.

[Lucinda]

4. KNR

[NYC Liberal]

9. Screw you, Johnny.

Putting aside your presidential campaign in which you sold your soul to the worst of the right-wing nuts -- you endorsed and supported Trump even after he mocked you and your military service, even after all of his racist, bigoted, sexist crap. (Yes he "revoked" it at the very end after the pussy-grab video, but I don't consider that worthy of praise.)

You haven't seen anything like this? Trump was fucking nuts before he took office and now you're surprised that he's still fucking nuts? GTFO.

[2naSalit]

10. I know people who

call him "bottom gun". These are vets calling him that. I have only had a couple fleeting moments of feeling he was honest, but that was long before he chose to run for president. I have since realized he isn't trustworthy.

[NYC Liberal]

11. He was probably most honest in 2000...

Of course he realized that being rational and moderate wasn't going to get him anywhere in the GOP, so he sold out and veered right in 2008 to get the nomination.

[2naSalit]

13. Isn't that when he

decided he should get all mavericky?

[notdarkyet]

14. He's my senator but I have never voted for him. Too hawkish.

[mucifer]

15. trump did it to excite his base and confuse the media.

his base will believe anything he says. Much of the media will report it like that, too.

[msongs]

16. john mccain the eternal blabber mouth - all talk and no action. nt

[PSPS]

17. "The American people should demand it," McCain continued.

Um, they have been demanding this and a lot of other things for a long time and, as you must have forgotten, your role has been to consistently obstruct the "demands" of the people for a long time.

[cstanleytech]

22. Thats because they only care about gaining more power for themselves and their party and they

dont give a shit about the average person in this country who is struggling and if they saw a child drowning they would probably tell the kid to pull themselves up by their bootstraps rather than throw them a rope or even a life buoy.

[Merlot]

18. mccane making this demand is playing right into trumpfts hand.

now, instead of talking about trumpft and his staffs connection to russia, mccane is talking about how Obama may have broken the law. Which, as has already been pointed out, wire tapping is not something the executive branch can do with out a judge. Would be better to point that out.

trumpft won this round.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

28. That's the way I see it, too. nt

[world wide wally]

19. McCain has always been an asshole

[cstanleytech]

20. If McCain and the other Repugnants in office want to be relevant in 20 years and maintain even some

power in this country they had better get their act together and ditch Trump and the people like Trump (such as Pence) otherwise the bounce back on them when it happens (and it will) will "not" be pleasant for them.

[flying-skeleton]

21. Hero?

The day McCain got caught in the war was the day the Whitehouse ShitGibbon stopped caring about anything McCain had to say.

[Cha]

23. At least he said it!

[riversedge]

26. McCain has his good comments and this is one of them. Thank you.

[LiberalLovinLug]

29. Where is the evidence?....Its obvious...just SAY IT!!!

It came out of the deranged paranoid mind of a wingnut RW hate radio host Mark Levin, and Brietbart News that published it as some kind of alt. fact. And then Bannon whispered it into the ear of Donald, a paranoid megalomaniac himself, before he went to bed. So he stayed up fuming, until he just had to tweet out his manufactured outrage.

[Stuart G]

30. k and r...nt