Who really gets under Donald Trump's skin? A man who has been dead since last year and another whom the president says he hardly knows.
At least that's the bizarre picture painted by Trump this week in angry rants at the late senator John McCain and a Washington lawyer called George Conway.
Trump lashed out yet again Wednesday at the broadly popular McCain, saying "I've never liked him much. I really probably never will."
Even Trump says, "I barely know him."
Backing off from a fight, however, wouldn't be Trump: his entire presidency is based on being combative. Or, as Kellyanne Conway, told Politico: "he's a counter-puncher." "His base sees this as classic Trump behavior," said Rich Hanley, who teaches on politics and the media at Quinnipiac University. "They expect Trump to swing at everybody, even ghosts."
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