Steve Schmidt Says John McCain Lied When He Denied Affair With Lobbyist in 2008
10.05.2022 - 16:11
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a Substack post published on Sunday night that in 2008, McCain lied, and that he lied on John McCain’s behalf when he denied a New York Times report that John McCain had an affair with a lobbyist. Further, Schmidt says McCain had initially lied to him about the affair before admitting it.Schmidt noted this New York Times article, published in February 2008 and written by Jim Rutenberg, Marilyn W.
Thompson, David D. Kirkpatrick and Stephen Labaton, which essentially stated that McCain had carried on an affair with a DC lobbyist so blatantly that it alarmed his own staff, who did everythign they could to keep the two apart.
Concerns were not only about a potential sex scandal, but about what such behavior said about McCain’s tolerance for blatant corruption — the concern was of course that he was sleeping, literally, with someone whose job is to influence members of congress.“Immediately following the story’s publication, John and Cindy McCain both lied to the American people at a news conference that I prepared them for on that same day,” Schmidt wrote in the substack post. “Both denied the story to me personally, as did the lobbyist at the center of the story.
They also lied to the American people.”Schmidt, who also formally apologized to the journalists, said that at the time, when he was 36, “I did not understand the difference between integrity and loyalty.” “Senator McCain denied his long relationship with the lobbyist – to whom he was credibly accused of providing special favors – dozens of times to my face,” Schmidt said also. “After the New York Times story – which accurately detailed that relationship – was attacked and successfully discredited by the campaign under my direction, John McCain told me the truth
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