Sen. John McCain lashed out at President Donald Trump this week for not “standing up to defy hate and bigotry” after the disastrous riots in Virginia that killed one woman and injured dozens more.
McCain has made it a habit of slamming Trump on just about everything the President does or plans to do. His criticism this week proved little more than another barb from the self-appointed racially-righteous choir of politicians, entertainers and athletes. But McCain doesn’t have such a squeaky-clean family lineage when it comes to maintaining the racial high ground.
McCain’s great-great grandfather fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War as a private for the Mississippi Cavalry division. The elder McCain’s unit served missions at the pleasure of Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Considered a brilliant military strategist, Forrest was a real estate investor, slave trader and better known as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Forrest was a founding father of the KKK.
McCain also was a war deserter and was eventually captured as a prisoner of war.
Glass houses.
There's no moral equivalency between racists & Americans standing up to defy hate& bigotry. The President of the United States should say so
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) August 16, 2017