Tammy Duckworth snaps at 'draft dodger' Trump over government shutdown's impact on military

[mystery-ak]

Tammy Duckworth snaps at 'draft dodger' Trump over government shutdown's impact on military
by Daniel Chaitin | Jan 20, 2018, 10:01 PM

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., mocked President Trump as a "draft dodger" for his multiple deferments during the Vietnam War in a speech Saturday on the Senate floor, panning the commander in chief for accusing Democratic lawmakers of holding the military "hostage" in the fight to pass a spending bill to end the partial government shutdown.

With the shutdown halting paychecks for troops, cause furloughs for civilian Defense Department workers, and causing disruption for the military, Duckworth argued Trump, who refuses to cave to the Democrats' demand for a "Dreamer" solution, is the one harming the U.S. armed forces.

“Does he even know that there are service members who are in harm’s way right now, watching him, looking for their commander in chief to show leadership, rather than to deflect blame?” Duckworth said. “Or that his own Pentagon says that the short-term funding plans he seems intent on pushing is actually harmful to not just the military, but to our national security?”

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[skeeter]

Childish cheap shots, how embarrassing. The left has no room to criticize Trump for debasing the level of political discourse - obviously they think its a race to the bottom.

[Oceander]

What does being a deferment baby in the early 1970s have to do with the effects on the military of a democrat-caused government shutdown in 2018?