Meghan McCain jumped to the defense of former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday, hours after President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani called him "a mentally deficient idiot."
Giuliani had harsh things to say about Biden during an interview with HuffPost when asked about Democrats' prospects for the 2020 presidential election.
"Joe Biden is a moron," Giuliani said. "I'm calling Joe Biden a mentally deficient idiot."
Giuliani also called out Biden's age of 75, saying, "He's also too old. He's four years older than Trump."
McCain and her family have been friends with the Bidens for years, and she took offense to the criticisms.
"I am disgusted by Giuliani’s abhorrent and idiotic comments about Joe Biden. Joe Biden is one of the great political leaders of all time, one of the truly decent men left in politics – and someone my family has looked to for strength during the most difficult time in our lives," McCain tweeted Friday.
McCain's comment was in reference to the brain cancer battle her father, Republican Sen. John McCain, is going through. The 81-year-old's prognosis is not good as he deals with an aggressive form of brain cancer that took the life of Biden's son, Beau, in 2015 and former Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2009.
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