Steve Schmidt Goes to War With the McCain Family
Steve Schmidt, the onetime John McCain campaign strategist who has turned into a fierce critic of the Republican Party and hero to a certain kind of Resistance liberal, published a blog post on Sunday night accusing McCain of concealing the truth about an affair he was having — and asserting that he was too afraid of Sarah Palin to halt the GOP’s slide into lunacy. The post comes on the heels of attacks Schmidt leveled at Meghan McCain over the weekend, in which he accused the late senator’s daughter of being a “bully, entitled, unaccomplished, spoiled and mean,” among many other things.
In Sunday’s post, Schmidt writes that a New York Times story published in 2008, which implied that McCain had an affair with a female lobbyist, was true. At the time, McCain was running for president against Barack Obama. The senator had been married to Cindy McCain since 1980, and they would remain together through his death in 2018.
The 2008 McCain campaign vigorously pushed back against the story. And the lobbyist in question, Vicki Iseman, later sued the Times, which attached a “note to readers” stating that it “did not intend to conclude” that McCain and Iseman had an affair.
Schmidt claims that the Arizona senator, whom he has long venerated, lied to him and to the American public about the affair, and that the relationship’s existence was the reason McCain looked the other way while his campaign manager, Rick Davis, worked to advance Russian interests with lobbying partner Paul Manafort.
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