Meghan McCain Trashes ‘Felon’ Dinesh D’Souza in Tweetstorm: ‘My Family is Sick of This’

Meghan McCain went after perennial mudslinger Dinesh D’Souza in a tweetstorm Thursday morning, slamming the commentator for his references to her father’s imprisonment in Vietnam.

It all kicked off with an early morning tweet from D’Souza comparing Senator John McCain’s five-year captivity and torture during the Vietnam War to his “captivity by leftist thugs in the media today”:

McCain’s captivity by leftist thugs in Vietnam was involuntary–his captivity by leftist thugs in the media today is, alas, voluntary

— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) June 22, 2017

The Outnumbered host apparently did not enjoy that reference to her father’s five years spent as a prisoner of war, and responded in a tweet saying that people who have never served in the military often make comparisons to her father’s torture:

Every moron who has never served in the military a day in their life wants to compare everything to my father being tortured. https://t.co/khl7FkmCWI

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) June 22, 2017

McCain continued, adding that her “family is sick of this”:

Do you ever think about what our POW’s went through when you throw this rhetoric around? https://t.co/khl7FkEeli

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) June 22, 2017

Why is it so difficult to criticize my father without somehow comparing it to a time when he was tortured. My family is sick of this. https://t.co/khl7FkEeli

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) June 22, 2017

She ended her rapid fire response to D’Souza by asking if his status as a convicted felon is “voluntary or involuntary”:

Is the fact that you’re a felon voluntary or involuntary? Just want to alas, double check. https://t.co/khl7FkEeli

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) June 22, 2017

D’Souza, who made a name for himself as a dogged and incendiary right-wing pundit, was charged in 2014 with a single felony count for making $20,000 of illegal contributions to New York Senate candidate Wendy Long, who ended up losing the race to Kirsten Gillibrand by a margin of 46%.

He pleaded guilty.

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