NYT reporter: Lindsey Graham invited Ivanka & Jared to funeral, cleared it with Cindy McCain

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

Ivanka Trump was asked to attend the funeral by @LindseyGrahamSC when they met on Capitol Hill earlier this week and she shared her condolences, per a White House official. Graham said it would be a nice gesture for Ivanka & Jared to attend, but cleared it w/ Cindy McCain first.

[Tipperary]

1. Ugh. This makes me sick.

[TheBlackAdder]

36. What? Lindsey wasn't able to reserve a spot for Putin too?

[Sneederbunk]

51. As if Cindy McCain did not have other things on her mind.

[chelsea0011]

56. Really. If the family wanted them there, they would have invited them. What an awful thing to do.

[hlthe2b]

2. More self-serving Lindsey Graham...He had no right to put Cindy McCain in that spot

If they had wanted to extend an invitation, they would have earlier.

Lindsey just desperate to grovel before Trump.

[gopiscrap]

3. Graham is a piece of shit

[justhanginon]

21. Only on his good days!

[at140]

55. But Graham was McCains best buddy in senate

you are known by the company you keep applies or not?

[irisblue]

4. What do the Russians have on Graham?

Screwing over his 'good friend'.

[dhol82]

9. THAT is the question

He has been a suck up for a while.
The Russians must have something on him.
Only answer.

[W_HAMILTON]

5. Pathetic move by Graham.

It's clear he's all aboard the Russian #MAGA train now. Now that Trump is apparently his new bestest buddy, I'm sure Trump put him up to it to feel like his narcissistic ass got one over on McCain.

I have no doubt that McCain wouldn't have wanted those two shits at his funeral.

[madaboutharry]

6. How could she say no?

He put her on the spot. If she said no that would be what everyone would be talking about.

[bluestarone]

43. I think just by saying

My husband would not approve? That's what i would have said

[Gothmog]

7. Steve Schmidt scalds Ivanka and Jared appearance at McCain memorial: They stand for 'everything he w

Link to tweet

[Frustratedlady]

30. Not that I care about Javanka, Lindsey put them in a bad situation, as well.

People were visibly shocked to see them walk in and they glommed onto some nearby people to visit with. He assumed too much authority in even offering and put Cindy in a tough spot. Any nitwit would have known better.

I figured Lindsey would be blubbering all through the ceremony, but he acted like it was some outing for school.

[Gothmog]

44. Ivanka texting at McCain's funeral. Why am I not shocked.

Link to tweet

[smirkymonkey]

45. How incredibly rude.

She shouldn't have been there in the first place and this is how she behaves?

[KentuckyWoman]

49. She's praying... she swears.

[Iterate]

8. If you have to ask, then don't ask. Ever.

[Pachamama]

57. +1000

Exactly

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Another example of Graham sucking up to Spanky?

If so, he dishonored his friend's memory again.

[tanyev]

11. I bet they were wishing they hadn't gone.

[dsc]

12. Politics aside anyone who is such a weasel can't be trusted no matter what he promises

I can't understand how anyone could vote for Lindsey Graham for any office.

[MagickMuffin]

13. He's really working on getting that AG position, isn't he?

I'm sure he'll become the best of buds with his new love for the grifters, now that McCain is gone.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. My thought exactly.

The sucking-up is getting embarrassing to watch.

[beachbum bob]

15. Clear disregard for John McCains wishes...by so called "friend"

[LAS14]

27. I can't imagine that John McCain wanted to exclude anyone but Donald Trump. He...

... was not so petty.

[EffieBlack]

34. Funny how everyone else managed to get there without Lindsey Graham's intervention ...

I'm sure that if McCain had wanted them there, they would have been invited - just like everybody else in the church.

[beachbum bob]

38. Trumps kids are an extension of their father,

[sueh]

16. Maybe Cindy already knew that Meghan was going to take a swipe at Trump

in her father's eulogy. It would be such a shame if none of the Trumps were there to hear it.

[leftynyc]

33. Perhaps Lindsay knew

also. Doesn't seem to be able to trash Donnie himself and knew they would have to sit there and take whatever anyone said.

[Pachamama]

58. Good point....

[MustLoveBeagles]

17. He shouldn't have put Cindy McCain on the spot like that

If they had wanted Ivanka and her husband to attend the funeral they would've invited them themselves. Lindsey Graham overstepped his bounds.

[Stallion]

18. Lindsey Couldn't Get a Date so he Got a +2 Instead

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Graham is getting a well-deserved beating-up on this Twitter thread.

Asking whether those two twerps could come was rude and put Cindy McCain in an awkward position, but on the up-side - at least Ivanka had to sit and listen to what everybody else thinks of her repulsive old man.

[Duppers]

47. GOOD!

[Initech]

20. What a piece of shit!!!!

[shanny]

22. I'm wondering if Graham is angling for AG, and sucking up to Rump for that reason.

I'm also wondering just what he plans to do when/if he gets there...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. Of course he is. I think that's been his goal all along.

[shanny]

24. but to me the important part of the question is what happens next.

Unlike Sessions, Graham is never seemed to show any interest in the job until just recently. So why now? Why now turn his back on his closest friend and ally, never-Trumper McCain? Sure he's a weasel, they all are, but some at least are marginally better than others and maybe Graham is gearing up to pull an ultimate double cross. He's been around for a long time, maybe he can feel the winds shifting, and maybe he sees a way to build a lifeboat for a party that has an anchor tied to it (dawg knows he wouldn't do it just because it is The Right Thing To Do).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. I hope that if he gets the job he has the cojones to protect the IC investigation

but I'm not sure that without McCain to remind him what a spine is he'll be able to handle the pressure and, like everyone else who joins that administration, will instead fold like a cheap lawn chair. He's a damn fool if he wants the job because nobody comes out of that administration with their reputation and integrity intact.

[shanny]

41. "nobdy comes out of that administration..."

That's what I mean. I can't think he doesn't know that by now. So I think he may be trying to salvage what he can: let a Repuke AG stand up to Rump, as the walls fall in. It is all about having a Party, after the deluge.

It's just a thought. We may live to see.

[rusty fender]

50. Yes. He used his friend's death as an opportunity

to promote himself as the next attorney general. Such a disgusting slimeball

[LAS14]

26. Oh, for crying out loud. If we can't encourage civility wherever we find it...

... how are we going to climb out of this morass we find ourselves in?

[CatMor]

28. They both could have gratefully declined ....

it would have been a better thing to do. Graham was wrong to put Cindi McCain in that predicament. I wonder if trump asked Graham to make the request.

[former9thward]

42. What predicament???

Is Cindy McCain unable to say no because she is a weak woman? They did not want Trump and indicated that. If they did not want his children they would have said that also. Cindy McCain is responsible for her own decisions whatever they may be.

[C_U_L8R]

29. Has Graham forgotten his old friend so quickly?

It's so pathetic that he'd sully the memorial with the stink of Trump, his new friends, instead of telling them it was a horrible idea.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

31. I wonder if trump had Graham ask the kids to attend.

[milestogo]

32. Jared and Ivanka go places as a way of working on their brands.

Its always all about them.

[lame54]

35. He was wrong again

[Lint Head]

37. Just like Lindsay to take advantage of a widow in grief

I guarantee you John McCain would not have wanted them there. Lindsey Graham is an opportunist prick. I know his type. I was born and raised in South Carolina. The bigoted racist Bastian of Toothless skull Orchard types.

[Docreed2003]

39. We had a name for people like Graham in the military..."Blue Falcons"

This was a pretty obvious "Blue Falcon" move by Graham.

[dawnie51]

40. I was struck....

by the VERY small role he Graham played in the service. Just a tiny scripture reading. It took longer for him to walk up to the dais than it did to say the verse. For the bestest buddy and confidant ever, that was pretty piss poor. Maybe the family has had it with him and his Trump ass kissing. On the other hand, I thought Leiberman did a fine speech.

[question everything]

46. OK. Graham was McCain best friend so I suppose he could

and I think it was nice that they agreed.

Maybe, someday, we can show Whiny Donny that the way to proceed is via cooperation, not divisiveness and insults.

[Hekate]

48. I don't know about Graham, but maybe Cindy thought it might be a learning experience...

...that would do them some good. Who knows. They certainly had to listen to Daddy be excoriated up one side and down the other.

[oberliner]

52. He has denied this

[FM123]

53. I'm glad they went!

I want those two pieces of human garbage to hear every single day from every single person they meet, just how disgusting the people of America really think her father is!

[Pachamama]

59. +1000

Me too

And to see what their father/father in law will NEVER have and in fact quite the opposite

PS: Also loved that they had to sit and listen to Meghan McCain's eulogy....

[Eliot Rosewater]

54. Rumpers turned against an American hero because a traitor told them to, we have such HUGE problems

ahead.

Scary.