Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost her legs in Iraq, calls Trump ‘a five-deferment draft dodger’

Washington Post ^

[Eleutheria5]

In a Senate-floor speech Saturday, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) blasted President Trump as a “five-deferment draft dodger” and accused him of trying to bait North Korea into a war, putting both the military and the national security of the United States at risk.

It was a moment of fire for Duckworth, a veteran who lost both of her legs in 2004 while serving in the Iraq War, and who has advocated for military and disability issues since she was elected to national public office in 2012.

Duckworth said Saturday her speech was prompted by a tweet Trump had posted Saturday morning accusing Democrats of “holding our Military hostage” to have “unchecked illegal immigration.” The tweet was just one of many partisan attacks Trump launched over the weekend trying to blame Democrats for a congressional budget stalemate that had led to a shutdown of the federal government.

That Trump would accuse Democrats — like herself — of not caring about the military was galling, Duckworth said.

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[fieldmarshaldj]

Given that she is a political puppet, bought and paid for and installed in her present office by the most corrupt political machine in America (the Illinois Combine), her ability to claim any moral high ground based on her military service went right out the window. Don’t virtue signal when you sold yours to the party of traitors, Ladda.

[Eleutheria5]

Obviously, he used his daddy’s connections and money to buy himself a high number./s

You use big words, like E. and Plurubus. Must be you’re rich too and bought a high number./parody of low octane brain snowflake.

[guido911]

My military service does not define me. It does Senator Ahole from Illinois. But not me. She can F herself.