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   Time for a tedious debate about whether this was a shot at ex-   
   senators like Jeff Flake and Bob Corker or Trump’s way of saying   
   that he’s glad McCain is dead and that he’s probably in hell   
   now. Either way, note that he said this at a faith forum.   
      
      
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   Trump's audience is stunned as he says this, alluding to McCain:   
   "We needed 60 votes & we had 51, & sometimes we had a hard time   
   with a couple. Fortunately they're gone now. They've gone on to   
   greener pastures. Or perhaps far less green, but they're gone.   
   Very happy they're gone”   
      
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   Flake is treating it as at least a partial jab at him:   
      
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    Greener pastures https://ph.news.yahoo.com/trump-senators-who-   
   opposed-me-went-on-to-greener-pastures-185440786.html …   
      
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   Right, no doubt Trump is happy to see him and Corker gone. But   
   the thing about Flake and Corker is that, for all their   
   criticism of Trump, they voted loyally with him and their party   
   in the Senate. That was a core criticism of them among anti-   
   Trumpers, in fact — they talked a good game but they never let   
   their personal antipathy to Trump stop them from being good   
   soldiers in floor votes. Offhand I can’t think of a single   
   meaningful vote cast by either of them that made life difficult   
   for Trump and McConnell. They were with the White House on   
   ObamaCare repeal, on tax cuts, on the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh   
   nominations. And that’s what Trump is talking about in the clip:   
   Votes, not criticism.   
      
   There’s only one senator who’s since left the chamber who cast a   
   vote that thwarted Trump on major legislation. That would be   
   McCain, whose no vote on “skinny repeal” of ObamaCare was   
   decisive in killing the bill and has been referenced many times   
   since by Trump when complaining about him. And he complains   
   about McCain frequently to this day, undeterred by the fact of   
   the man’s death. Flake and Corker would draw an occasional pissy   
   tweet or a one-liner at a Trump rally when they were in the   
   Senate, but I can’t recall Trump attacking either of them at any   
   point this year. The only ex-senator whom he still jabs at   
   compulsively in public, even at appearances that have nothing to   
   do with the subject, is Maverick. And now here he is riffing in   
   front of a friendly audience about certain unnamed senators who   
   caused him trouble in the context of votes and are now “gone”   
   and maybe in a place that isn’t so nice and green.   
      
   I wonder who he meant.   
      
   Trump will deny that he meant McCain when he’s asked about this,   
   knowing how awful it would look to admit it. There’s a reason he   
   didn’t use names here. But c’mon: If we’re destined to debate   
   this for a day, let’s at least skip the part where everyone   
   pretends he isn’t mean-spirited enough to voice a sentiment like   
   this and cut right to the part where everyone applauds him for   
   being so mean-spirited. “Damn right McCain’s in hell.” Etc.   
      
   By the way, everything okay with POTUS today? Even by his usual   
   standards, he seems a little … touchy:   
      
   President Donald Trump said Wednesday his lips are sealed about   
   what he and Russian President Vladimir Putin say to each other   
   behind closed doors…   
      
   “I will have a very good conversation with him,” Trump said,   
   adding, “What I say to him is none of your business.”   
      
   What America’s president says to Russia’s president is every   
   American’s business, especially after the latter interfered in   
   the election that got the former elected. A brief readout of   
   their chat would be par for the course for other   
   administrations. There was this too:   
      
      
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    Women’s soccer player, @mPinoe, just stated that she is “not   
   going to the F...ing White House if we win.” Other than the NBA,   
   which now refuses to call owners, owners (please explain that I   
   just got Criminal Justice Reform passed, Black unemployment is   
   at the lowest level...   
      
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   ....in our Country’s history, and the poverty index is also best   
   number EVER), leagues and teams love coming to the White House.   
      
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