During a campaign event in Georgia, Senator Jon Ossoff called Donald Trump a “draft-dodging, crook president” while defending his colleague Mark Kelly. This was reported by infohub.kz.
Ossoff appeared on stage with Kelly and his wife, former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and said: “I don’t think anything illustrates the times more aptly than that the draft-dodging, crook president, who 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.”
After Kelly, a former Navy captain, and five other Democratic lawmakers released a video last year stating that troops are not required to carry out illegal orders, Trump accused them of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” and called for their arrest.
Ossoff, who is currently running for re-election to his Senate seat in Georgia, has gone viral on social media for his sharp criticism of Trump. There is speculation that he may run for president in 2028.
On Sunday, at a campaign event in Atlanta, Ossoff also criticized Trump’s handling of the US 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,” he 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 for her closeness to the president.
The White House quickly responded, with Trump calling Ossoff “Pee-wee Herman” and White House communications director Steven Cheung writing that Ossoff is “a radical, extremist Dumocrat”.