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Trump Defends His Handling of McCain’s Death
- Won’t say if McCain would’ve been better president than Obama
- ‘I’ve done everything that they requested’ for senator
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President Donald Trump insisted Thursday he properly honored John McCain following his death but wouldn’t say whether he thought the Arizona Republican would have made a better president than Barack Obama.
Trump ordered White House flags raised to full staff the day after McCain’s death, angering many Americans and prompting a letter from the nation’s largest veterans group asking him to keep the flags at half staff until the senator’s burial, an honor that has been bestowed on some other senators who died in office.