Trump news: President says US forces killed terrorists behind Paris attacks, after launching latest insults at John McCain
Updates from Washington as they happened on Wednesday
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has resumed his attack on George Conway, the husband of White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway, after the latter questioned the president’s mental health.
In response, Mr Trump called the lawyer “a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!”
Mr Trump has also been accused of “punching at a person that can’t fight back because he’s dead” over his feud with recently deceased Vietnam War hero and Republican senator John McCain.
“I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be,” Mr Trump said yesterday during a press conference at the White House with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, prompting the comment from CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on the disrespect being shown to a long-serving American public servant who passed away of brain cancer last August, aged 81.
The ongoing attacks on the late senator has led many to express support for the famed Arizonan, even as the president has continued to double down on his criticism of the war hero.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mr Trump took a trip to Lima, Ohio, where he visited a tank manufacturing plant and expressed admiration for the "patriotism" he said was on full display in the company.
Before boarding his plane to leave Washington, Mr Trump told reporters that he expects special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election to be released publicly.
Mr Mueller's report is expected any day now, with many reports indicating the investigation is winding down or already finished up.
The report would first be sent to the Justice Department, at which point Attorney General William Barr would determine what form of a report he would pass along to Congress for further review.
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Bloomberg's Sahil Kapur pointed out that Mr Trump once campaigned on universal health coverage that “the government’s gonna pay for."
A new poll revealed that 76 per cent of registered voters surveyed said they oppose President Trump pardoning former campaign aides for federal crimes, even if they are not related to Russia.
The backlash keeps piling on. Here is Anderson Cooper's reaction to the president's comments on Sen. John McCain:
The daughter of Ronald Reagan said her father would be horrified at what American has become under President Trump.
"I think he would be horrified," Patti Davis said in a Yahoo! News interview when asked what Mr Reagan would think of Mr Trump's America. "I think he would be heartbroken because he loved this country a lot, and he believed in this country. I mean, that was in all of his speeches. And he believed in the goodness of people."
President Trump retweeted a video from Larry, the Cable Guy which subsequently became widely circulated among QAnon followers. QAnon is a right-wing conspiracy theory suggesting the "deep state" has a secret plot against Mr Trump and his supporters.
The White House released a statement on Wednesday announcing that President Trump will be hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from March 25 to March 26.
Mr Trump and Mr Netanyahu will "discuss their countries' shared interests and actions in the Middle East during a working meeting," the statement said.
The View, the day talk show Meghan McCain co-hosts, weighed in on President Trump's latest attack on the late Sen. John McCain
Per the Washington Post:
"Mueller’s team, once filled with 17 lawyers, will soon be down to 10. The special counsel’s office confirmed in recent days that Zainab Ahmad’s detail has ended. No one has been charged by the special counsel since Roger Stone was indicted in January.”
Per NBC News, a spokesperson for Mueller's team said:
“Zainab Ahmad has concluded her detail with the Special Counsel’s Office but will continue to represent the office on specific pending matters that were assigned to her during her detail.”
President Trump is also being called out by his Republican colleagues in Congress.
Sen. Johnny Isakson, who represents the state of Georgia, said he will be giving the president a "whipping."
In the days following Mr McCain's death, the Republican senator delivered an impassioned speech for the former senator of Arizona.
Mr Isakson said that "anybody who in any way tarnishes the reputation of John McCain deserves a whipping because most of those who would do the wrong thing about John McCain didn't have the guts to do the right thing when it was their turn."
"I want to do what I said that day on the floor of the Senate," the Georgia Republican told conservative opinion website The Bulwark.
"I just want to lay it on the line, that the country deserves better, the McCain family deserves better, I don't care if he's President of United States, owns all the real estate in New York, or is building the greatest immigration system in the world," he added. "Nothing is more important than the integrity of the country and those who fought and risked their lives for all of us."
Meghan McCain referred to President Trump's recent attack on her late father as a "bizarre new low" in an interview with ABC News.
She also delivered a message to her supporters: “Do not feel bad for me and my family, we are blessed ... feel bad for people out there who are being bullied that don’t have support.”
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