Donald Trump did not mention John McCain in a speech at a Republican dinner in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, hours after the family of the ailing senator and former presidential candidate said he had chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer. The president spoke at the end of a disastrous week, in which talk of impeachment swelled as his former campaign manager Paul Manafort and personal lawyer Michael Cohen were convicted in court, the latter saying Trump directed him to violate campaign finance law. Earlier on Friday it was reported that Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, had been granted immunity to discuss Cohen’s case with prosecutors. Trump didn’t mention them either. Instead the president came out swinging, predicting victory in the November midterms and in 2020, insulting Democrats as “leftwing haters and radicals” and discussing the murder of Mollie Tibbetts, the Iowa student who was found dead this month and in whose death a Mexican national has been charged. The family of the 20-year-old has asked that her death not be politicized. Earlier on Friday, McCain’s family said the 81-year-old would cease treatment for glioblastoma, the aggressive brain cancer which has kept him away from the Senate this year. “The progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict,” a family statement said. Across party lines, tributes to McCain were widespread. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said he was “very sad to h
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