John McCain Said Trump Scandal Has Reached ‘Watergate Size’
Senator John McCain on Tuesday said that Donald Trump’s various scandals have reached “Watergate-size and scale.”
“I think we’ve seen this movie before. I think it appears at a point where it’s of Watergate-size and scale… the shoes continue to drop, and every couple days there’s a new aspect,” McCain told Bob Schieffer, the former host of CBS’ Face the Nation, at a dinner where McCain was being honored.
McCain said that the advice he would give to Trump is “the same thing that you advised Richard Nixon, which he didn’t do… get it all out… it’s not going to be over until every aspect of it is thoroughly examined and the American people make a judgment. And the longer you delay, the longer it’s going to last.”
McCain also blasted Trump for inviting the Russian foreign minister and ambassador into the oval office. “I’ve known this guy Lavrov for 30 years, he’s an old KGB apparatchik stooge, and Putin is a murderer and a thug,” McCain said. “And to have Lavrov in the Oval Office and be friendly with the guy whose boss… sent aircraft with precision weapons to attack hospitals in Aleppo, I just think it’s unacceptable.”
Senator McCain’s statements came just hours after the New York Times reported the bombshell story that Donald Trump, during a meeting with James Comey, demanded that the FBI drop its investigation into Michael Flynn.
Comey recorded the exchange in a memo immediately following the meeting.
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