Cindy McCain says she'll never respond to Trump's attacks on her late husband

Cindy McCain.
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Cindy McCain is passionate about issues, not politics, and doesn't plan on leading any resistance against President Trump, she told The Washington Post in an interview published Thursday.

The widow of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who died last year of brain cancer, reflected on Trump's treatment of her husband; he mocked McCain's time as a prisoner in Vietnam, and even after his death has attacked him for not supporting the GOP attempt to repeal ObamaCare. She hasn't publicly commented on any of Trump's remarks, and doesn't intend to, either. "My job is my family, and what I'm concerned about is whether or not they're happy, whether everyone's got their lives together, whether they need anything," she told the Post's Roxanne Roberts. "I've not thought about responding."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.