Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's attendance at Sen. John McCain's 2018 Washington, D.C., funeral — and the matter of how, exactly, Donald Trump's advisers got invited while

Trump did not — is again making headlines. The controversy was revived in recent days as Meghan McCain has made the media rounds to coincide with the recent release of her audio memoir, _Bad

Republican_, on Audible. In the audiobook, the 36-year-old former _View _host says that Jared and Ivanka were "funeral crashers" at her dad's D.C. memorial, adding that she

was unaware they had been invited to the event given that Donald Trump was explicitly not allowed. "I saw Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner sitting toward the back. As far as I knew, they

Graham, a longtime McCain family friend, pushed back on this version, telling _The Washington Post _this week: "[Meghan] was upset they were there — I understand that, and she has hard

feelings but I know what happened and nobody showed up uninvited." This echoes what a McCain family friend told PEOPLE in 2019: "There were a lot of people involved in the planning

of the funeral, and she [Meghan] does not know whose list they were on." Graham told the _Post _this week that he sympathized with her, still. "I love Meghan McCain and I

understand how stressful all this has been for her and those who attack her dad will never be forgiven by her," he said. Sen. McCain's widow, Cindy McCain, cleared Jared and

Ivanka's attendance even as she didn't understand why they wanted to be there in the first place. "John always taught me that it takes more energy to be mad than to simply

move on," Cindy wrote in _Stronger_. "I don't know exactly why Ivanka and Jared wanted to be there. But I am hoping that they came for the reason I would think—that they

mourned the loss of my husband." Meghan, meanwhile, said recently that she still finds the memory of their attendance irritating. _NEVER MISS A STORY — SIGN UP FOR _PEOPLE_'S FREE

DAILY NEWSLETTER__ TO STAY UP-TO-DATE ON THE BEST OF WHAT PEOPLE HAS TO OFFER, FROM JUICY CELEBRITY NEWS TO COMPELLING HUMAN INTEREST STORIES._ In an appearance on Bravo's _Watch What

Happens Live_ last week, Meghan said of Jared and Ivanka, "They should never have come, they had no business being there, I remember seeing them and seeing her specifically. They had no

g------ business being there and it's something that still angers me, clearly." The years of bad blood between the McCains and Trumps date back to former President Trump's

attacks on the late senator, which have continued even after his death. Meghan has not been shy in responding to many of these comments. Last week, President Trump issued a lengthy, 200-plus

word statement again assailing both Meghan and her late father for a number of purported slights. "Thanks for the publicity boomer," Meghan wrote on Twitter, adding a link to her

new audio memoir. Back in December, Meghan took to Twitter to describe Trump's continued attacks on her late father as an obsession. "Two years after he died, you still obsess over

my dad," she wrote. "It kills you that no one will ever love you or remember you like they loved and remember him."