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Meghan McCain Has a Nervous BREAKDOWN After Eric Swalwell Calls Her ‘Deranged’

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Meghan McCain is not a happy camper. And hey, did you know her father was Sen. John McCain? Yep, cause she never brings it up.

McCain is having a bad day, and has slammed Eric Swalwell, after the California congressman called her “deranged” in response to her criticism of a New York Times crossword puzzle that she said resembled a swastika.

McCain was one of several Twitter users who shared screenshots of Sunday’s crossword, and also joined a host of detractors in pointing out that the puzzle was published on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. And yeah, it’s hard to deny the puzzle did look like a swastika, but we will give the Times the benefit of the doubt.

Captioning the image in question, McCain wrote on Monday: “On the first night of Hanukkah the anti-Israel New York Times issues a crossword puzzle that looks like a swastika. Can’t make this s*** up. We see you @nytimes—we see you.”

Swalwell didn’t agree with McCain’s take, so he left a rather blunt response and said, “You’re deranged”.

Responding, McCain wrote in a tweet: “I never slept with a Chinese spy—so I’d really take a seat throwing around the moral judgments homeboy.” Funny, that’s the ONLY comeback conservatives have when it comes to Swalwell. FANG FANG.

McCain was referring to Christine Fang, a suspected Chinese intelligence operative who associated with the congressman in 2014 and 2015. While Swalwell’s critics have accused him of being compromised by Fang and the Chinese government, Swalwell has said that he cut off ties with when the FBI got in touch with him in 2015. Swalwell did EXACTLY what he was supposed to do. The FBI said, yo dude, this woman might be a spy, and he ended the relationship. And there’s nothing more to it than that.

Continuing to hit back at Swalwell, McCain wrote: “A member of Congress spending his time ‘dunking’ me on twitter in the middle of the night while our country faces the end of title 42 border crisis that’s going to annihilate our infrastructure is an example why everything is going to s***. Focus on your work & district, clown.”

When a Twitter user replied that Swalwell’s tweet was sent at 10 p.m. and advised McCain to “relax,” the congressman clarified that it was “7pm in California.”

Hitting back at Stalwell’s response, McCain tweeted: “GET A LIFE CONGRESSMAN! Hope all your constituents see how much time you spending tweeting at me—great use of taxpayer dollars.”

According to Newsweek, Jordan Cohen, executive director of communications at the NYT, said that the only intentional aspect of the crossword’s appearance was its symmetry.

“This is a common crossword design: many open grids in crosswords have a similar spiral pattern because of the rules around rotational symmetry and black squares,” Cohen said in a statement.

Ryan McCarty, the puzzle’s constructor, said in the Times: “This grid features one of my favorite open middles that I’ve made as it pulls from a variety of subject areas. I had originally tried to make it work in a 15×15 grid but then decided to expand the grid out to a Sunday-size puzzle with a fun whirlpool shape.”

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