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Trump warns ‘I fight back’ after McCain hits policy Drug czar nominee
Marino pulls name

their time in the Senate. from consideration
Former President Barack
Obama, who defeated By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
McCain in his bid for the MATTHEW DALY
presidency in 2008, con- Associated Press
gratulated the senator on WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.
the award in a tweet Mon- Tom Marino, President
day night. Donald Trump’s nominee
“I’m grateful to @Sen- to be the nation’s drug
JohnMcCain for his lifetime czar, has withdrawn from
of service to our country. consideration following re-
Congratulations, John, on ports that he played a key
receiving this year’s Liberty role in weakening the fed-
Medal,” Obama wrote. eral government’s author-
Another political foe, 2012 ity to stop companies from
GOP presidential nomi- distributing opioids.
nee Mitt Romney, said on “He didn’t want to have
Twitter: “Ran against him, even the perception of
sometimes disagree, but a conflict of interest with
proud to be a friend of @ drug companies or, frank-
SenJohnMcCain: hero, ly, insurance companies,”
champion of character Trump told Fox News Radio
and last night, Lincoln- in an interview Tuesday,
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is surrounded by reporters as he and other lawmakers arrive for a vote, esque.” shortly after breaking the
at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017. The back-and-forth be- news on Twitter.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) tween the president and The announcement follows
By KEN THOMAS Cain’s decisive vote this “To abandon the ideals we McCain represented the reports by The Washington
Associated Press past summer in opposition have advanced around latest skirmish between Post and CBS News, which
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- to a GOP bill to dismantle the globe, to refuse the the two Republican party detailed the Pennsylvania
dent Donald Trump on Barack Obama’s Afford- obligations of international heavyweights and another lawmaker’s involvement
Tuesday warned Sen. John able Care Act, a move leadership for the sake of example of Trump tangling in crafting a 2016 law,
McCain that “I fight back” that caused the failure of some half-baked, spurious with GOP senators who signed by President Barack
after McCain questioned GOP efforts to repeal and nationalism cooked up by could undermine his agen- Obama, that weakened
“half-baked, spurious na- replace “Obamacare.” people who would rather da in Congress. the Drug Enforcement Ad-
tionalism” in America’s for- In Philadelphia on Monday find scapegoats than solve Trump in recent weeks ministration’s authority to
eign policy. night, the six-term Republi- problems,” he said, “is as has feuded with Tennes- curb opioid distribution.
McCain, a former Navy pi- can senator from Arizona unpatriotic as an attach- see Sen. Bob Corker and It also comes amid grow-
lot who spent 5½ years in received an award for a ment to any other tired Senate Majority Leader ing pressure on Trump to
a Vietnam prisoner of war lifetime of service and sac- dogma of the past that Mitch McConnell, although fulfill his pledge to declare
camp and is battling brain rifice to the country. In ad- Americans consigned to the president joined with the nation’s opioid epi-
cancer, offered a simple dition to recalling his more the ash heap of history.” the Kentucky senator at demic a “national emer-
response to Trump: “I have than two decades of mili- He continued: “We live in the White House to pub- gency,” as a commission
faced tougher adversar- tary service and his impris- a land made of ideals, not licly declare they were on he’s convened on the sub-
ies.” onment during the war, blood and soil.” the same page. McCain ject has urged him to do.
Trump said in a radio inter- McCain took a moment to Former Vice President Joe played a consequential Trump said Monday that
view with WMAL in Wash- go a step further than the Biden presented McCain role in the health care de- he would be making “a
ington, “I’m being very, night’s other speakers, who with the Liberty Medal. bate and will be lobbied major announcement” on
very nice but at some point lamented what many de- Though members of oppos- heavily to support the presi- the topic next week.
I fight back and it won’t be scribed as a fractured po- ing parties, the two men dent’s push to overhaul the Interviewed by Fox News
pretty.” He bemoaned Mc- litical climate. worked together during tax system. q Radio’s Brian Kilmeade,
Trump said Marino “felt
Trump hails Greece’s revival at White House compelled” to step down
from the job.
“He feels very strongly
By KEN THOMAS period of economic hard- national bailouts since 2010 tial campaign, when the about the opioid problem
Associated Press ships but vowed that the to address hardships dur- left-leaning Greek leader and the drug problem and
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- U.S. would remain steadfast ing the recent economic warned that Trump rep- Tom Marino said, ‘Look, I’ll
dent Donald Trump reaf- as the country executes its recession. In exchange, resented an “evil” set of take a pass,’” Trump add-
firmed the United States’ debt-relief plan. the country imposed pain- ideas. Tsipras, flashed a ed.
commitment to Greece’s “The American people ful spending cuts, tax hikes smile and laughed after he Trump did not say when
economic recovery at the stand with the Greek peo- and reforms. was asked about his com- he and the congressman
White House on Tuesday, ple as they recover from Eurozone officials have said ments, prompting Trump spoke.
a meeting that allowed the economic crisis that Greece and its European to joke, “I wish I knew that Marino could not immedi-
the country’s prime min- recently afflicted their na- creditors are on a good before my speech.” The ately be reached Tuesday
ister to brush aside rough tion,” Trump said alongside path to completing bail- Greek leader said the two for comment.
comments he made about Tsipras in the Rose Garden. out talks with a view to a leaders had a productive Trump had announced the
Trump during the 2016 He added, “A strong and “clean exit” from strict fiscal exchange, and “not a mo- news in an early-morning
campaign. flourishing Greece provides supervision. During a joint ment did I feel threatened tweet, telling his supporters
Trump, joining with Prime immense opportunity for news conference, Tsipras at any time” during their that Marino had “informed
Minister Alexis Tsipras, said American trade, invest- was asked about his sting- encounter. He predicted me that he is withdrawing
Greece had “gone through ment and job creation.” ing statement about Trump a “very fertile outlook” for his name from consider-
a lot” during its extended Greece has relied on inter- during the 2016 presiden- their relationship.q ation as drug czar.”q