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The Insider reports:
John McCain’s former campaign manager Steve Schmidt vented about the late senator’s daughter on Twitter, describing Meghan McCain as “a bully, entitled, unaccomplished, spoiled and mean.”
Her tantrums and antics, Schmidt alleged in an 11-part Twitter thread, left the veteran senator “appalled and embarrassed” by his daughter during his 2008 campaign trail.
According to the Washington Examiner, McCain has sold just 244 copies of “Bad Republican: A Memoir.” Schmidt pointed this out, and McCain appeared to like a Twitter reply baselessly claiming that Schmidt had “been “running a pedo racket” in response.
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Give the tweets below a minute to fully load. As you’ll see on his feed, Schmidt spent much of last night swatting down cultists right and left.
.@MeghanMcCain has been trying to have a conversation with me for almost 14 years. Once again, today, she called me a Pedophile. It is a slander. It is disgusting. It is untrue and it says everything about her. Here she is liking the tweet of a far right liar and piece of filth
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
2/ After 14 years of abuse and attacks, today is the day I have decided to respond. I am happy to keep the story going after this thread, it only gets better. pic.twitter.com/zqRX1qhnDO
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
3/ I was the first adult that @MeghanMcCain ever encountered that she heard the word NO from. I told her she was unimportant and that the Presidential election wasn’t about her. I left her on the tarmac when she didn’t make the plane because as I explained to her, the 5000 people
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
4/ who were waiting to see her father speak and took the time to do it deserved to have him show up on time. That was the way John McCain saw it. He was appalled by @MeghanMcCain conduct on the campaign. Appalled and embarrassed. The tantrums were beyond anything I have
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
5/ever witnessed from any other human being. They were epic meltdowns that would test the range of Meryl Streep, Kate Winslett, Jodi Foster and Anne Hathaway on their best days. Raging, screaming, crying, at the staff, at the makeup people at Secret Service. Without any doubt
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
6/ it was the most rotten, entitled, spoiled, cruel, mean and bullying behavior I have ever witnessed. It was my job to confront it and I did. I talked to 24 year old @MeghanMcCain the way an adult should have talked to the Trump kids. I talked to her the way a retired USMC
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
7/ 4 Star General failed to do in the WH with Ivanka, Jared and Jr. They are all the same people. I told her that she was unimportant and that everything around her had nothing to do with her. I told her she was privileged and lucky and should be grateful. She told me and
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
8/ anyone else who would listen in response, “Do you know who the Fuck my Dad is” It was the miserable anthem of the total chaos that was the McCain Campaign. It never stopped until one day when I said ENOUGH!
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
9/ @MeghanMcCain is a bully, entitled, unaccomplished, spoiled and mean. She has rejected her Family’s history of service for a shallow and purposeless celebrity where she trades on a famous name like a fourth generation wannabe clipping coupons while pretending to be an heir
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
10/ I was a volunteer for John McCain. He called me when that campaign went belly up. Everyone quit and he called and asked for my help and I never asked him for a dime. I never took a dime. I left my three year old for a year and did everything I could for John McCain.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
11/ He was the only person I ever worked for who put in a position where I became involved in a public lie. When that campaign ended, I made a vow that that would never happen again and it hasn’t.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
This Far right propagandist has repeatedly smeared me. I came out in favor of gay marriage in 2009 @brianellner in a speech. I accepted a single speaking invitation at the 2008 RNC, it was for The Log Cabin Republicans. https://t.co/Xc3kWuyDnz
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
I worked with the @ACLU on marriage equality campaigns across America, I signed the Amicus brief for the Supreme Court arguments. I’ve never used language like that and no one credible will say I did. Below is one of the smear mailings that I believe Trump jr did for revenge.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
At least $1,000,000 worth and likely much more were sent to all of our communities anonymously to smear us. @MeghanMcCain did it again today but she has a license to Bully and Smear in America because WE KNOW WHO HER DAD IS pic.twitter.com/tT5jtVfn1n
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022
The whole filthy Fascist mob is out today. First, I have no financial involvement with LP. More smears. from Putin’s boy. I haven’t been involved meaningfully since the Georgia races. This guy is a world class liar. World class and he hates his country. pic.twitter.com/L3wdAaReOP
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 7, 2022