WASHINGTON, D.C.: Donald Trump has sacked an aide who said cancer-stricken Senator John McCain’s opposition to a presidential nominee did not matter because “he’s dying anyway,” the White House announced Tuesday. The White House was roiled by bipartisan fury over the remark attributed to Kelly Sadler in May. “Kelly Sadler is no longer employed within the Executive Office of the President,” read a brief statement by deputy White House spokesman Raj Shah. CNN had quoted a White House official as saying Sadler, speaking at a staff meeting, meant the comment as a joke but that it flopped. Trump, for his part, once mocked McCain’s war service, saying during the presidential campaign that “I like people that weren’t captured.” AFPAFP/CC

Source: Manila Times June 06, 2018 04:06 UTC