President Joe Biden hit out at Donald Trump on Thursday for his past repeated attacks on the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
The president sat down with journalist Nicolle Wallace to discuss a wide range of topics in an interview on MSNBC, during which he took a moment to talk about working across the aisle.
Wallace, who was a top aide to McCain during his 2008 presidential run, asked Biden how he imagined the decorated Vietnam veteran would feel about the Republican Party of today and its increasingly extreme politics.
“I don’t think he’d think much of it,” the president said, adding that he couldn’t speak for the politician, who died in 2018 of brain cancer.
Biden talked about his deep connection with McCain, whom he met in the 1970s while working on veterans affairs issues.
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