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During Saturday’s memorial service to the life of Senator John McCain, some of the speakers decided it was a perfect time to get political and take shots at the sitting President. NBC’s Sunday Today picked up right where they left off and disturbingly touted their politicized eulogies and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd hyped suggestions of them being a “call to arms” against President Trump.
In his report on the memorial service, correspondent Hans Nichols boasted about how the eulogies by former presidents Bush and Obama were “tinged with criticism at President Trump, who wasn't even invited.” The network played a clip of Obama pompously declaring that “[McCain] understood if we get in the habit of bending the truth to suit political expediency or party orthodoxy our democracy will not work.” That’s rich coming from him.
Nichols then seemed to congratulate the late Senator’s daughter, Meghan McCain for coming the “closest to directly criticizing the sitting president.” “We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness. The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly,” she said.
“Unscripted moments that weren't entirely unimaginable for a mischievous senator who never shied away from a fight,” Nichols quipped.
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