When Trump trashes McCain, this is why we can't look away | By Richard Cherwitz for CNNOpinion
Richard Cherwitz is the Ernest S. Sharpe Centennial Professor in the Moody College of Communication and founder of the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium at the University of Texas at Austin. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinion articles on CNN.
In July 2015, candidate Donald Trump told an audience at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa that John McCain"is not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured." Richard CherwitzTrump and McCain, who died last August, had carried on a yearslong feud, which the President — usually inexplicably — revives periodically. Last weekend he tweeted derisively about the late senator. And on Tuesday Trump declared, by way of explanation:"I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be.
Lemon: Trump managed to sink even further 07:43While it may be impossible to prove that Trump is the direct cause of the tweet received by Cindy McCain about her husband -- or others directed at their daughter Meghan McCain -- how can we ignore the fact that the President's discourse empowers and emboldens despicable people like this to come out of the shadows? It is more than a cliché to say that hateful language begets hateful language -- and that it ultimately increases the...
Late-night hosts rip Trump over McCain feud 01:07It is fair to ask of me: Is sharing this crude and appalling tweet received by Cindy McCain unacceptable and in bad taste, and does it only keep the Trump message alive, making it potentially more influential? To that I say, absolutely not! We all need to see or be reminded about what our President is doing to the country. Looking the other way is not the answer and actually could perpetuate and intensify the problem.
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