WASHINGTON — As many flags around the nation remained at half-staff on Monday to mourn Senator John McCain, a Republican who had survived a Vietnam War prison camp and weathered the gradual coarsening of politics within his own party, the American flag flew at full-staff over the White House. In earlier rallies and tweets, President Trump used harsh language to position Mr. McCain as a political foe who voted against the Republican Party’s best interests. On Monday, the president refused to comment when asked repeatedly about the death of the senator from Arizona, who died on Saturday at 81 after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. But Mr. McCain appeared to have planned in advance how to have the last word, as a close aide issued a pointed, posthumous rebuttal from the senator. In a statement issued Monday in Arizona by Rick Davis, his family spokesman and former campaign manager, Mr. McCain was pointed in his condemnation of conflating “tribal rivalries” with patriotism. “We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe,” Mr. McCain wrote. “We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change t
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