Monday, February 12, 2018

Democrats Debate: Get Personal with Trump or Take the High Road


WASHINGTON — For Democrats, there's something deeply satisfying — perhaps even cathartic — about personalizing their attacks on President Donald Trump.

And they've been doing it with relish, particularly after he said last week that they had acted "un-American" and even "treasonous" by declining to clap during his State of the Union address.

Borrowing a page from Trump's celebrity feud playbook, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., a war veteran who lost her legs in Iraq, has given the commander in chief a nickname: "Cadet Bone Spurs" — a reference to the service deferments Trump obtained during the Vietnam War.

"He's a joke," former Vice President Joe Biden said when told the White House had written off the treason remark as a stab at humor. 

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Source: NBC News 

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