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Ossoff Calls Trump a Draft-Dodging “Crook” at Town Hall

8/19/2026

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U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) called President Donald Trump a “draft-dodging crook president” at a town hall, citing Trump’s alleged threat to imprison Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and five other lawmakers and mocking his post-NATO summit flight with aide Natalie Harp.
White House communications director Steven Cheung called Ossoff a “radical, extremist Dumocrat” and “loser in politics” on X.
President Donald Trump later called Ossoff “Pee-wee Herman.”

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U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) called President Donald Trump a “draft-dodging crook president” at a town hall, citing Trump’s alleged threat to imprison Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and five other lawmakers and mocking his post-NATO summit flight with aide Natalie Harp.
White House communications director Steven Cheung called Ossoff a “radical, extremist Dumocrat” and “loser in politics” on X.
President Donald Trump later called Ossoff “Pee-wee Herman.”