White House Aide Who Mocked McCain No Longer Part of Trump Administration

The White House communications aide who gave the offending comments about Republican Senator John McCain is no longer part of the White House administration, CNN reported.

White House spokesman Raj Shah confirmed in a statement that “Kelly Sadler is no longer employed within the Executive Office of the President.”

The White House came under harsh criticism over Sadler’s comments last month. Namely, in an internal meeting, Sadler said that McCain’s opposition to President Donald Trump’s CIA director nominee, Gina Haspel, didn’t matter because he’s “dying anyway.”

The 81-year-old senator has undergone surgery and treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer and has been at home in Arizona for months.

Sadler’s exit comes after accusations from McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, who said that Sadler apologized for the comments privately and promised to do so publicly, but she did not keep the promise. The younger McCain said on ABC’s “The View,” where she is a co-host, that Sadler’s reversal showed the Trump administration to be “incapable” of apologies.

“I was promised an apology, Kelly Sadler, publicly to my family. I did not receive that,” McCain said. “This is not an administration that’s capable of apologizing. When I had a conversation with Kelly, I asked her to publicly apologize and she said she would,” she added. “I have not spoken to her since and I assume that it will never come.”

Sadler’s comments came after McCain wrote a letter to his Senate colleagues urging them to reject Haspel’s nomination to the CIA because of her past work on the agency’s “enhanced interrogation” program, which now is considered to be torture.

“Ms. Haspel’s role in overseeing the use of torture by Americans is disturbing. Her refusal to acknowledge torture’s immorality is disqualifying,” wrote McCain, who was tortured during his time in captivity in Vietnam.

“I believe the Senate should exercise its duty of advice and consent and reject this nomination.”

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