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South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close friend
of McCain, told CBS's "Face the Nation" program in an interview
to be aired on Sunday that he was not satisfied with the White
House's response to the controversy surrounding Kelly Sadler, a
communications aid.
"It's (a) pretty disgusting thing to say, if it was a joke, it
was a terrible joke," Graham said. "I just wish somebody from
the White House would tell the country that was inappropriate,
that's not who we are in the Trump administration."
Sadler dismissed Senator McCain's objection to Trump's nominee
to be CIA director, Gina Haspel, by saying it "doesn't matter,
he's dying anyway," a source familiar with the closed White
House meeting told Reuters on Thursday.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders on Friday refused to
confirm or deny what Sadler had said.
"And I think most Americans would like to see the Trump
administration do better in situations like this," said Graham.
"It doesn't hurt you at all to do the right thing and to be
big."McCain, 81, has been a frequent critic of Trump. In 2015,
Trump denigrated the former Navy flier's military service. "He's
not a war hero," Trump said. "He was a war hero because he was
captured. I like people who weren’t captured."
Asked if Trump himself should apologize for Sadler's comments,
Graham said, "I'll leave that up to him, but if something
happened like that in my office - somebody in my office said ...
such a thing about somebody, I would apologize on behalf of the
office."
(Reporting By Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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