Ossoff calls Trump a ‘draft-dodging, crook president,’ intensifying his feud with White House | CNN Politics

Sen. Jon Ossoff stood next to Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly on Tuesday and delivered the kind of anti-Trump broadside that has become a campaign signature, marking the latest round in an escalating feud with the White House. “I don’t think anything illustrates the times more aptly than that the draft-dodging, crook president, who has plunged our nation recklessly into a war he knows not how to end or to win, tried to imprison this man, who embodies American heroism,” Ossoff said, referring to Kelly’s clash with the administration over his involvement in a video calling on military members to reject illegal orders. For months, Ossoff has followed a consistent pattern: hold one large campaign rally each month, tear into President Donald Trump and his GOP opponent with easily digestible soundbites, and let those barbs ricochet around the internet. Ossoff, who says he doesn’t have social media apps on his own phone, has learned how to capture the attention economy in ways few other Democratic politicians have – aside from perhaps the viral videos of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It’s part of what’s thrust Ossoff to the fore of conversati