War hero senator calls Trump 'Cadet Bone Spurs' and says she won't be lectured by a 'five-deferment draft dodger' following the president's claims the Democrats are holding the military hostage
- Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill) blasted President Donald Trump on Saturday
- She called him a 'five-deferment draft dodger' and blasted his lack of leadership
- Her comments came after he tweeted on Saturday, blaming Democrats for the government shutdown
- Trump also said the Democratic party was holding our military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration'
- The shutdown came on Saturday at midnight after a a stopgap spending measure was blocked
- Trump has blamed the Democrats for the shutdown, tweeting on Saturday that they decided to 'play shutdown politics'
- However, Democrats have argued that Trump's demands on an immigration compromise was what led to the shutdown
Senator Tammy Duckworth blasted President Donald Trump on the floor of the Senate on Saturday, calling him a 'five-deferment draft dodger'.
Her comments came after the president tweeted on Saturday that Democrats were to blame for the government shutdown, claiming the party was 'holding our military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration'.
The Democrat lawmaker from Illinois tore into Trump, saying it was him who truly doesn't care about service members and that his persistence in pushing his short-term spending plans harm the military.
Duckworth is an Iraq war veteran who lost both legs when the helicopter she was piloting was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade in 2004.
Senator Tammy Duckworth (pictured, Saturday) blasted President Donald Trump on the floor of the Senate on Saturday, calling him a 'five-deferment draft dodger'.
The Democrat lawmaker from Illinois (pictured, Saturday) tore into Trump, saying it was him who truly doesn't care about service members and that his persistence in pushing his short-term spending plans harm the military
Her comments came after the president tweeted on Saturday that Democrats were to blame for the government shutdown, claiming the party was 'holding our military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration'
She called it 'the latest in a recent string of recent comments where he accuses Democrats like me for not caring about our military'.
'I spent my entire adult life looking out for the well-being, the training, the equipping of the troops for whom I was responsible,' she said.
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'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.'
Trump's Selective Service record shows four 2-S classifications, which are his student deferments.
The first two were during his time at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York, and the second two allowed him to stay in school when he transferred to study business at the University of Pennsylvania.
She called it 'the latest in a recent string of recent comments where he accuses Democrats like me for not caring about our military'
She also referred to Trump as 'Cadet Bone Spurs' - the medical reason he received a deferment from the military draft during the Vietnam War and it's not the first time
Trump (pictured, Thursday) has blamed the Democrats for the shutdown, tweeting on Saturday that they decided to 'play shutdown politics'. The White House also accused Democrats of putting 'unlawful immigrants' ahead of the military and other funding needs
When he graduated in 1968, Trump's classification shifted to 1-A, or 'available for service'.
A physical exam in September 1968 did not disqualify him for service. But a second one in October followed with a new classification: 1-Y, which means he would be drafted in the case of a national emergency. Trump said it had to do with bone spurs in his heels.
Duckworth went after this point as she continued to tear into the commander-in-chief.
'And 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.'
Duckworth (pictured, is an Iraq war veteran who lost both legs when the helicopter she was piloting was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade in 2004.
Duckworth (pictured, March 2005) called for Republicans and Democrats to come to an agreement and end the shutdown, saying: 'Let's stop blaming each other, and let's get to work'
She called for Republicans and Democrats to come to an agreement and end the shutdown, saying: 'Let's stop blaming each other, and let's get to work.'
The shutdown came on Saturday at midnight when most Democrats and some Republicans voted to block a stopgap spending measure that would have funded the federal government through mid-February.
Trump has blamed the Democrats for the shutdown, tweeting on Saturday that they decided to 'play shutdown politics'.
The White House also accused Democrats of putting 'unlawful immigrants' ahead of the military and other funding needs.
However, Democrats have argued that Trump's demands on an immigration compromise was what led to the shutdown.
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