“I noticed Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner sitting towards the again,”
McCain, the youngest daughter of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, recounts. “So far as I knew, that they had not been invited by the household, however they confirmed up anyway. … It by no means even crossed my thoughts that they might come. Why would you go to one thing like that? It appeared audacious even for them.”
Besides, in accordance with South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R), that is not what occurred.
“[Meghan] was upset they have been there — I perceive that, and he or she has exhausting emotions however I do know what occurred and no one confirmed up uninvited,”
Graham told The Washington Post this week. “I really like Meghan McCain and I perceive how demanding all this has been for her and those that assault her dad won’t ever be forgiven by her.”
McCain took umbrage at Graham’s denial. Bigly.
“Lindsey Graham might contemplate himself a member of my household, however he’s not and hasn’t been for a really very long time,”
she tweeted on Wednesday morning. “He definitely would not converse for me or my life experiences. Full cease. The media ought to cease treating him like he’s an skilled on something McCain associated.”
Which, properly, tough.
It is not going that we ever unravel the were-they-invited-or-were-they-not controversy. Except the particular person managing the funeral attendees record decides to talk out. Which, unlikely.
However the broader level right here is simply how a lot Trump (and his offspring and allies) continues to divide the Republican Get together. A lot in order that John McCain’s daughter feels compelled to inform her father’s onetime closest ally within the Senate — and now a significant Trumper — that he is not a part of her household “and hasn’t been for a really very long time.”
The Level: Trump might not be president. However the impacts of the divisiveness he willingly fomented proceed to be felt on a near-daily foundation inside his occasion.
