Jan 21, 2018 - Politics & Policy
Duckworth to "draft dodger" Trump: Don't lecture me on the military
- Erica Pandey, author of Axios Finish Line
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran who lost both of her legs in combat, blasted President Trump — whom she branded as a draft-dodging "Cadet Bone Spurs" — in a speech on the Senate floor yesterday for blaming Democrats for holding military pay hostage in the government shutdown.
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.— Sen. Tammy Duckworth