Klobuchar: McCain Recited ‘Names Of Dictators’ During Trump Inaugural Speech

UNITED STATES - JANUARY 20: Senators including Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., center and John McCain, R-Ariz., are seen on the West Front of the Capitol before Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, January 20, 2017. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - JANUARY 20: Senators including Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., center, and John McCain, R-Ariz., are seen on the West Front of the Capitol before Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the Unite... UNITED STATES - JANUARY 20: Senators including Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., center, and John McCain, R-Ariz., are seen on the West Front of the Capitol before Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, January 20, 2017. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) MORE LESS
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Democratic presidential contender Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) claimed Saturday that the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) rattled off dictators’ names during President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural address.

“When I sat on that stage between Bernie [Sanders] and John McCain, John McCain kept reciting to me names of dictators during that speech,” Klobuchar said during a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa. “Because he knew more than any of us what we were facing as a nation.”

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Pictured above: Several senators including Bernie Sanders, John McCain and Amy Klobuchar attend President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017.

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  1. This is a two-day-old “news”.
    Plus, I’m kinda tired of portraying McCain as a bipartisan hero, though I think that’s not the main point of Klobuchar’s speech. (I might be too picky today)

  2. ok, that’s not a good way to maximise her minutes.

  3. There is a reason that Trump said,

    “I love the poorly educated”

  4. Amy, John’s not running in 2020. You are. Are you telling us you didn’t know on 1/20/2017 how dangerous Trump was? Most Clinton voters had figured that out.

  5. Might have been pre-written and set to automatically run today.

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