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Dem Sen Duckworth Calls Trump ‘A Five-Deferment Draft Dodger’
byPam Key21 Jan 20180
21 Jan, 201821 Jan, 2018
Saturday on the Senate floor, while commenting on t..
Saturday on the Senate floor, while commenting on the government shutdown, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), an Iraq war veteran, said she would not be lectured about military funding by a “five-deferment draft dodger,” referring to President Donald Trump.
Duckworth said, “I spent my entire adult life looking out for the well-being, the training, the equipping of the troops for whom I was responsible. Sadly, this is something the current occupant of the Oval Office does not seem to care to do. And I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger.”
She added, “I have a message for Cadet Bone Spurs: If you cared about our military, you’d stop baiting Kim Jong Un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops and millions of innocent civilians in danger.”
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