John McCain's son decries Trump appearance at Arlington as a 'violation' that turned cemetery into campaign backdrop
Source: CNN
By Natasha Bertrand, CNN
When former President Donald Trump held a campaign event at Arlington National Cemetery last week, 1st Lt. Jimmy McCain says he viewed it as a violation.
The youngest son of the late Sen. John McCain had already been moving away from the Republican Party just weeks ago, he changed his voter registration to Democrat and plans to vote for Kamala Harris in November, he told CNN in an exclusive interview this week.
But he is speaking out now for the first time about Trump because of the former presidents conduct at the hallowed ground where several generations of McCains family, including his grandfather and great grandfather, are buried.
It just blows me away, McCain, who has served in the military for 17 years, told CNN. These men and women that are laying in the ground there have no choice of whether to be a backdrop for a political campaign, he said.
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(11,631 posts)jmowreader
(51,120 posts)Turns out he was an enlisted Marine who served a hitch, got out to attend college on the GI Bill, rejoined the Arizona Army National Guard, got his Masters then went to Officer Candidate School. He fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and now hes a Military Intelligence officer. Really good service.