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Dana Milbank: In death, as in life, McCain has a way of bringing out the loons.

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Washington • President Trump displayed his innate grace and decency Saturday by spiking a White House statement honoring the late Sen. John McCain’s life. Monday morning, the flag over the White House was (until criticism poured in) back to full staff, six days before protocol says it should have been.

Even for Trump, this seemed churlish. Unless there is another explanation: John McCain is not dead.

When McCain's family put out the news Friday that he had discontinued treatment for his terminal brain cancer, this was done "to take media attention" from Senate candidate Kelli Ward, and, according to Ward herself, replace it with a "narrative that they hope is negative to me.