President Trump undercut his economic message with one of his harshest attacks yet on the late Sen. John McCain, delivered at length to Ohio factory workers. More from EliStokols and Noahbierman:
President Trump flew to Ohio on Wednesday to claim credit for keeping a government tank plant open, but distracted from his economic message with his harshest, lengthiest attack yet on Sen. John McCain, seven months after his death.
The president started his attack by claiming “a lot of people are asking me” about McCain. He then spent five minutes, at a lectern with the presidential seal, grousing that McCain gave the FBI a dossier alleging Trump is compromised by the Russian government, “hoping to put me in jeopardy,” that he’d betrayed the party by opposing a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and that he bore responsibility for the Iraq war.
Though Wednesday’s speech in Lima, Ohio, was billed as an official presidential address — and paid for with taxpayer dollars, not campaign funds — Trump spoke repeatedly about the 2020 election, expressing confidence in his reelection prospects and using familiar political insults against Democrats, including “Crooked Hillary Clinton” and the racial slur “Pocahontas” to mock Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic presidential candidate.
Trump’s appearance was an effort to smooth over economic trouble signs in a politically crucial state where his trade war is hurting manufacturing. Late last year, GM Chief Executive Mary Barra cited Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, which have cost her company and Ford roughly $1 billion each, when announcing the closure of the Lordstown plant in northeastern Ohio. The result was a loss of 1,600 jobs there and hundreds of others more at suppliers.
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