{"id":32416,"date":"2018-05-11T12:53:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T19:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32416"},"modified":"2018-05-11T12:53:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T19:53:26","slug":"republicans-on-parade-5-11-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/11\/republicans-on-parade-5-11-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade – 5\/11\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the one hundred fifteenth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican White House Special Assistant to the Fuhrer, Kelly Sadler. She is so honored for the way she showed typical Republican love of and respect for John McCain.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0511kelly-sadler\"A day after Sen. John McCain urged his Senate colleagues to reject Gina Haspel as CIA director because she had overseen torture of detainees, a White House official reportedly mocked the ailing Arizona Republican, saying his opinion "doesn’t matter" because "he’s dying anyway<\/strong>."<\/p>\n

The Hill<\/a> first reported the comment later confirmed by The Associated Press. Both cited unnamed individuals in the room when the disparaging remark was made by Kelly Sadler, a special assistant to the president.<\/p>\n

McCain, 81, who is suffering from incurable brain cancer, issued a statement<\/a> on Wednesday calling Haspel’s role in torture "disturbing" and "disqualifying" for the top CIA job.<\/p>\n

The White House did not dispute the remark attributed to Sadler<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s a video report<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n