John McCain: "No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant."

[sunonmars]

Link to tweet

Sen. John McCain: "Today’s press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory."

[dalton99a]

1. Not a mistake. A deliberate act of public surrender.

[spanone]

2. K&R...

[Turbineguy]

3. Helsinki, July 16, 2018

has replaced Munich, Sept 30, 1938 .

[Hamlette]

14. We should call him President Chamberlain. Neville for short. nt

[calimary]

29. Yeah, no shit.

[Totally Tunsie]

4. Anderson Cooper just read McCain's statement on air in its entirety.

It can't be said enough.

Slowly, ever so slowly, the repugs are coming out from under their rock. We need to hear from every one of them.

[bdamomma]

5. what is that POS

McConnell going to say, he will choke on his words if he continues to support this traitor.

[leftieNanner]

19. "Now's not the time to have this conversation."

Kinda like with mass shootings, only international in scope.

In private, even Mitch might be horrified, but in public, he will toe the line. Gotta cram in more of those right wing judges.

[Phoenix61]

6. How can he even think that Twitler will

"...embrace that sacred responsibility." The are waiting totally in vain. Twitler is as delusional about Putin as his own followers are about him.

[lagomorph777]

12. He is not delusional about Putin.

Turd loves everything about Putin, especially his greed and sadism.

[cwydro]

7. Good for him!

[Duppers]

8. K & R

[msongs]

9. more BS hot air from mccain, trump republican appeaser nt

[AlexSFCA]

10. very weak statement

nothing about action

[colorado_ufo]

11. I called it . A prepared script.

No doubt that is why their meeting lasted longer; after all, it takes longer to learn a script when you can barely read.

[Sam McGee]

13. What do the following have in common?

Benedict Arnold
Neville Chamberlain
Vidkun Quisling
Donald Trump

[lpbk2713]

15. Trump wanted to drain the swamp.

We should help him out by starting at the top.

[Old Terp]

18. They replaced the little spotted water turtle

with alligator snapping turtles.

[DoctorJoJo]

16. Thank You, John! Probably Next the Admin Will Say, "He's Dying, Anyway."

[Tipperary]

17. K and r.

He is spot on.

[keithbvadu2]

20. Donald's apology tour to Putin went quite well.

[Scurrilous]

21. K&R

[duforsure]

22. Talk and statements are cheap

Do something to stop this Senator, after all the Republicans are enabling this continual disaster , and acts of treason against us now. Do something, while he can be stopped. Or this will get a lot worse.

[Delmette2.0]

24. Yes!

McCain can start with voting against Kavanaugh.

I know about his heath condition. If he is so bad off he should resign his position and let someone else represent his State. If not then be there for the Supreme Court vote.

[bucolic_frolic]

23. This guy has a dark and worrisome thread ... this being only the beginning

Link to tweet

Jed Shugerman
‏ @jedshug

5/ I don't want to sound like a conspiracy nut, but today's events show that Putin is brazenly confident. He has watched Mueller expose his agents' hacking, and he has watched GOP members of Congress actually DEFEND the hacking! (@RandPaul). And plan to impeach the investigators!

[erronis]

25. A reference (CNBC) with the full text of John McCain's statement.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/16/john-mccain-says-trump-abased-himself-before-putin-at-summit.html

(for those of us who want to actually look/catalog/search the text)

"Today’s press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory. The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate. But it is clear that the summit in Helsinki was a tragic mistake.

President Trump proved not only unable, but unwilling to stand up to Putin. He and Putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the president made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press, and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world.

It is tempting to describe the press conference as a pathetic rout – as an illustration of the perils of under-preparation and inexperience. But these were not the errant tweets of a novice politician. These were the deliberate choices of a president who seems determined to realize his delusions of a warm relationship with Putin’s regime without any regard for the true nature of his rule, his violent disregard for the sovereignty of his neighbors, his complicity in the slaughter of the Syrian people, his violation of international treaties, and his assault on democratic institutions throughout the world.

Coming close on the heels of President Trump’s bombastic and erratic conduct towards our closest friends and allies in Brussels and Britain, today’s press conference marks a recent low point in the history of the American Presidency. That the president was attended in Helsinki by a team of competent and patriotic advisors makes his blunders and capitulations all the more painful and inexplicable.

No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant. Not only did President Trump fail to speak the truth about an adversary; but speaking for America to the world, our president failed to defend all that makes us who we are—a republic of free people dedicated to the cause of liberty at home and abroad. American presidents must be the champions of that cause if it is to succeed. Americans are waiting and hoping for President Trump to embrace that sacred responsibility. One can only hope they are not waiting totally in vain.”

[theaocp]

26. Thanks from behind, asshole.

This motherfucker unleashed Palin on our world and he thinks his view has merit? Fuck him and his spawn. You don't get credit NOW, motherfucker. You HAD your opportunity. You BLEW it and you expect us to blow YOU? Fuck off.

[Hoyt]

27. Before it's over, trump will wish he had never bashed McCain. Today, gives folks an opportunity to

turn on trump. Don't know why they've been reluctant, but it's past time.

[zentrum]

28. Putin really has the goods on Trump.

What Putin has must be heavy duty. Beyond pee. It's money—corruption—some crime involving those things.

[YOHABLO]

30. I did not vote for John McCain, I don't know why what he has to say is relevant.