Meghan McCain has returned home to Arizona to be with her ailing father Senator John McCain just hours after expressing outrage over an old blog post by Joy Reid depicting him as a killer.

‘Going home to Arizona to be with my family - will be back on The View [on] Monday,’ Meghan McCain tweeted on Thursday.

‘Thank you again to everyone for sending some much love and support to my father, it truly means a lot.

‘And thank you for the compassion and understanding at this moment in time.’

Senator John McCain has been at home in recent weeks while undergoing treatment for an aggressive form of malignant brain cancer.

Meghan McCain (right) has returned home to Arizona to be with her ailing father Senator John McCain (left) just hours after expressing outrage over an old blog post by Joy Reid depicting him as a killer. The McCains are seen above earlier this year

After tweeting about her return home, Meghan McCain expressed outrage over a BuzzFeed story about MSNBC host Joy Reid’s blog post from over a decade ago.

The post contains a doctored image showing Senator John McCain’s head superimposed on the body of Seung-Hui Cho, the shooter who massacred 33 people on the campus of Virginia Tech University in April 2007.

Reid attached the image onto a blog post titled ‘Baghdad John Strikes Again,’ which criticized McCain for claiming that he would ‘follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell.’

McCain was at the time the Republican Party’s nominee for the presidency.

After tweeting about her return home, Meghan McCain expressed outrage over a BuzzFeed story about MSNBC host Joy Reid’s blog post from over a decade ago

The post contains a doctored image showing Senator John McCain’s head superimposed on the body of Seung-Hui Cho, the shooter who massacred 33 people on the campus of Virginia Tech University in April 2007

The above image of the Virginia Tech shooter was the one used in the photoshopped image of McCain

Meghan McCain was outraged over the blog post about her father from 2007

Reid wrote the post in response to comments McCain made at a campaign stop in a New Hampshire gun factory.

McCain told workers at the factory: ‘I will follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell and I will shoot him with your products.’

‘This is beyond disgusting and disgraceful,’ Meghan McCain tweeted in response to the BuzzFeed article.

Reid has come under fire for her old blog posts that have been unearthed via internet archives.

She has authored posts that were homophobic in content and for which she apologized.

But newly unearthed posts from by Reid that have also been criticized as homophobic attracted more attention after the MSNBC host claimed that she didn’t write them.

These are some of the posts Reid claims she did not write but which were published on her blog The Reid Report. They were discovered last month by a Twitter user

Other blog posts which appeared included this one which said 'most gay people cringe at the sight of two men kissing'

Reid suggested that it was online hackers who manipulated the internet archive in order to make her look bad - a claim that cyber security experts say seems implausible.

MSNBC has come under pressure to discipline Reid, who has been accused of not being truthful in making the hacker claim.

Reid’s blog posts have gained renewed attention in recent days, particularly in light of ABC’s decision to cancel the hit sitcom Roseanne after the show’s top star, Roseanne Barr, posted racist tweets comparing former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to an ape.

Earlier this month, Kelly Sadler, a White House aide, made a joke about John McCain 'dying anyway' - sparking outrage

Reporters, conservative activists, and internet researchers have been combing through the archives of her blog to find more damaging material, according to BuzzFeed.

Earlier this week, it was learned that Reid promoted a widely seen online film, Loose Change, which alleges that the September 11 terrorist attacks were the result of a government-run conspiracy.

Loose Change was co-produced by Alex Jones, the host of the far-right Infowars show who has promoted a number of fringe conspiracy theories, according to The Washington Post.

DailyMail.com has reached out to Reid for comment.

Meghan McCain was outraged earlier this month after it was learned that an aide to President Donald Trump said that the senator's opposition to Gina Haspel's nominated to head the CIA didn't matter because he's 'dying anyway.'

Meghan McCain said that even though the aide in question, Kelly Sadler, promised to apologize in public, none has been forthcoming.

'I was promised an apology, Kelly Sadler, publicly to my family. I did not receive that,' McCain said during the broadcast of The View.

'This is not an administration that's capable of apologizing.'