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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Mr Trump mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas." The crowd erupted in laughter.
On stage in Ohio, Mr Trump asked "What's going on with General Motors?" before calling GM to open its plant.
The president continues his attack against late Sen. John McCain. The crowd is silent.
A Morning Consult poll found that a majority of Christians in the US (64 per cent) believed it was inappropriate when President Trump autographed two bibles at a Southern Baptist Church in Alabama earlier this month.
Mr Trump is still on his anti-McCain rant. He is blaming him for the dossier and voting against repeal and replace.
"John McCain received the fake and phony dossier," he said at the Ohio army tank plant. "You hear about the dossier? It was paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton. And John McCain got it..he turned it over to the FBI hoping to put me in jeopardy."
Mr Trump on McCain, still: "McCain didn't get the job done for our great vets and the VA and they knew it."
The president said he endorsed Mr McCain for re-election and gave him the funeral the late senator would have wanted after ranting about him:
Shifting from Obamacare, the president is now criticizing Mr McCain for being a proponent of the Iraq War:
"We're in a war in the Middle east that McCain pushed so hard." Mr Trump said. "John McCain loved it....I gave him the kind of funeral he wanted...I didn't get a thank you."
The president had brought McCain out of nowhere and spent more than two minutes complaining about him.
He also complained that McCain, who has been dead for seven months, did not thank him for organising his funeral.
"I endorsed him at his request," President Trump added. "Gave him the kind of funeral he wanted, which as President I had to approve..I don’t care, but I didn’t get a thank you...Not my kind of guy, but some people like him. And I think that’s great."
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