"He was a great man," Meghan McCain said of her father, the late Sen. John McCain, at his funeral Saturday. "We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness. The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served."
"The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great," she continued, in a more explicit swipe at President Trump, who has repeatedly criticized Sen. McCain and deferred the draft to fight in Vietnam, where McCain suffered torture as a prisoner of war.
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