Jon Ossoff blasts ‘draft-dodging, crook president’ in latest war of words with Trump – US politics live
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Democratic senator Jon Ossoff called Donald Trump a “draft-dodging, crook president” during a campaign appearance today, continuing a feud with the president that escalated this week. Ossoff is currently running for re-election to his Senate seat in Georgia, and his criticism of the president has received viral attention on social media.
Appearing alongside Arizona senator Mark Kelly and former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords today, Ossoff added that Trump “has plunged our nation recklessly into a war he knows not how to end or to win, tried to imprison this man, who embodies American heroism”.
On Sunday, during a campaign appearance in Atlanta, Ossoff similarly attacked Trump’s handling of the US-Israel war on Iran.
“While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings,” Ossoff said. “He golfs and trades stocks. See, he doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the amir of Qatar.”
Ossoff appears to have been referring to Natalie Harp, Trump’s executive assistant, who has drawn scrutiny on social media for her closeness to the US president.
The White House quickly criticized Ossoff on Monday, with the president calling him “Pee Wee Herman” and White House communications director Steven Cheung writing on social media that Ossoff is “a radical, extremist Dumocrat”.
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