McCain book promises ‘no-holds-barred’ take on Trump

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is set to offer a “no-holds-barred” assessment of the Trump administration in a new memoir.

The book’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, said Monday that “The Restless Wave” will begin with McCain’s 2008 White House run against now-former President Obama, and will reflect on his time in the Senate during Obama’s tenure in office, according to AFP.

But he will also “share his experiences during the divisive 2016 election and his no-holds-barred opinions on the current developments coming out of Washington,” the publisher said.

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McCain and President Trump have sparred publicly since early on in the 2016 presidential campaign.

In a speech shortly after launching his presidential bid in 2015, Trump countered criticism from McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, by saying, “I like people who weren’t captured.”

McCain has not been afraid to break from the president on key issues. Last summer, he quashed a Republican effort in the Senate to do away with the Affordable Care Act when he voted with the chamber’s Democratic members opposed to the repeal.

More recently, McCain slammed Trump’s congratulatory phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin after his electoral victory, saying that “an American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.”