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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLindsay Graham invited Jarvanka.
Ugh, what a duplicitous POS.
Why were Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner at John McCains memorial service?
As the memorial service for Senator John McCain got underway Saturday, some viewers couldnt help but express disbelief and anger that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were spotted among the mourners at Washington National Cathedral after President Donald Trump was reportedly asked not to attend.
Had they been invited? Sort of, it appears, and not directly by the McCain family.
New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers tweeted that GOP Senator Lindsey Graham had asked Ivanka Trump, a White House senior advisor, to attend when they met on Capitol Hill earlier this week and the first daughter shared her condolences. A White House official told Rogers that Graham thought it would be a nice gesture for her and her husband, also a White House senior advisor, to attend.
The official said that the South Carolina senator cleared it with McCains wife, Cindy McCain, first.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/01/why-were-ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushner-at-john-mccains-memorial-service/
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)I'm sure she did not want them there, but how could she refuse without drawing down all kinds of nasty criticism? Lindsay Graham is from the south, where people refuse to be rude about things like this, and he knew she could not turn down this request. Where Graham is from, if you ask, "Mind if I smoke?" no one will object, even if they're sitting there with lung cancer and three tanks of oxygen.
What a shit he is. He knew exactly what he was doing. And what a massive kiss-up to his dark lord.
catbyte
(34,425 posts)as Lindsay's new master?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)dalton99a
(81,566 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Submariner
(12,506 posts)what an insult to McCain's memory to bring any Trump swill within the orbit of decent people burying a loved one.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)He is being even more of a lap dog lately.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)Took money from the NRA and I guess the RNC
LAS14
(13,783 posts)... we are to climb out of this hate-filled morass we find ourselves in.
angel823
(409 posts)I applaud Cindy McCain, if it is true she approved the invitation. There is no reason in heaven or hell why she should have "approved" it, but if she did, she's a better person than me. It's a testament to her. I do not approve the request. Thoughtless, political pandering and sucking up. Despicable.
I encourage civility. It's the same thing that allows the Bushes, Clintons and Obamas to attend together in a civil and responsible manner.
Time to buck-up buttercup, and have the courage of your convictions. Trump is unilaterally BAD.
Angel in Texasperated
Squinch
(50,992 posts)way he is debasing himself.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,810 posts)He wants to be the Attorney General. He knows Spanky is going to sack Sessions and Graham has lately been encouraging him, and I have to wonder what kind of deal has been made.
Squinch
(50,992 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,810 posts)He has said he wants the investigation to continue, but Trump corrupts everybody.
phylny
(8,385 posts)either last until Trump tires of him or until Trump is kicked out of office, versus continuing to be a senator?
irisblue
(33,018 posts)She was early teens. Long ways & time alone together,does Putin have something.on her?
Rhiannon12866
(205,839 posts)The only function of those two grifters is as an extension of Trump.
mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)well, shit, how come my dad never did that? How come all my dad ever wanted to do was pat my rear and put his hands near my boobs?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,810 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)I have said this before, Trump has something on this guy, either something sexual in his past or something else that he is holding over his head.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,810 posts)That's my theory, anyhow.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)I have always thought Lindsey was an in the closet gay man. That leaves him open to some serious blackmail being from South Carolina. I hate that I have to think that in this day and age, but it could be the issue.
Cha
(297,503 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,839 posts)kskiska
(27,045 posts)Speaks volumes.
Gothmog
(145,486 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,158 posts)Ivanka and her nebbish husband were *forced* to listen to Meghan McCain, George W. Bush, and Barak Obama speak, each giving a big dig at her pappy. She had to take it, had to listen to it. Knowing that her father is NOT beloved, not even an iota, like the hero he insulted.
To me, that sounds like fair trade-off.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Against the wishes of the McCain family to text back to him what was being said.
Cell phone records, baby.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)LG dishonored his so-called friend, John McCain and his family.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,787 posts)You and your orange baffoon really are??!!
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Perhaps Graham was not the one making that invitation.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)His crush can no longer be disappointed in him.