Ernst Mildly Swats At President On McCain: ‘I Don’t Appreciate It’

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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) joined a couple of her colleagues in offering up a milquetoast rebuke of President Donald Trump’s vicious treatment of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), according to a Thursday Politico report.

“I do not appreciate his tweets,” she said during a local town hall. “John McCain is a dear friend of mine. So, no I don’t agree with President Trump and he does need to stop.”

“He’s dear to me,” she added. “I can’t stop the President, what I can do is say Mr. President — I don’t appreciate it.”

Sens. Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) also pushed back on the President for his unending barrage of McCain insults this week.

Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Martha McSally (R-AZ) praised McCain but declined to criticize Trump.

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  1. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    Gee Joanie, so harsh? That will surely convince him to stop. Not. But maybe it is meaningless enough that it will spare you a mean tweet.

    Another jelly-spined republican.

  2. And what are you going to do about it Joni? Refuse to fall on your knees next time you see Trump?


  3. Jesus FUCK! Stop breathing life into this shit by publishing articles about it!!! I mean What he fucking fuck…we somehow NEED to know that one of Trump’s sycophant white nationalist douchebag enablers mouthfarted some milquetoast nonsense like this? DO we? Justify yourselves for posting this ridiculous article.

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