A Republican member of the US House of Representatives has said Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) “supported al-Qaeda” in Syria.
During a speech at the annual Values Voters Summit in Washington, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) severely criticized McCain for supporting former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, and the al-Qaeda-linked militants in Syria.
Gohmert’s criticism was in response to remarks made by McCain in an interview with Fox News where he described Republicans’ efforts to defund President Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, amid a US government shutdown as “a fool’s errand.”
“When it comes to the shutdown that's going on, I heard just before I came some senator from Arizona, uh, a guy that liked Gaddafi before he wanted to bomb him, a guy that liked Mubarak before he wanted him out, a guy that's been to Syria and supported al-Qaeda and rebels, but he was saying today the shutdown has been a fool's errand,” Gohmert said.
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