Former governor Dukakis fires back after Trump mention at Ohio tank plant

[DonViejo]

By Martin Finucane GLOBE STAFF MARCH 20, 2019

Former Massachusetts governor Michael S. Dukakis lambasted President Trump on Wednesday, criticizing Trump’s lack of military service and his recent attacks on the late US senator John McCain.

“His attacks on John McCain are disgusting,” Dukakis said. “John McCain served his country nobly and well. He spent five years in a cage in Vietnam. And Trump’s continued attacks on him are just another example of someone who has no sense of honor, no sense of integrity, and is absolutely gutless.”

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In the Ohio appearance, Trump also joked about Dukakis, saying he wanted to get into one of the vehicles but was stopped by a memory of Dukakis. Trump said Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, ‘‘tanked when he got into the tank.’’

“The helmet was bigger than he was. That was not good,” Trump said.

Dukakis, now a professor at Northeastern University, focused in a telephone interview on Trump’s lack of military service.

“I call Trump these days the draft-dodger-in-chief. While thousands of young Americans were fighting and dying in Vietnam, he was doing everything he could not to serve. Like thousands of young Americans, I served in the military, 16 months of which were 7 miles from the DMZ in Korea.”

“Trump claimed he had bone spurs in his heels, and he can’t even remember where they were — just another rich kid who used his father’s influence to avoid military service,” Dukakis said.

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[Beakybird]

1. Good burn.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Pretty sure Trump couldn't fit into a tank...

[Javaman]

3. and this is better?

but then again, he's showing off his road raging ability.

[Harker]

4. Draft-dodger-in-chief...

Where have I heard that?

[dalton99a]

5. Trump is a piece of shit coward

[JohnnyRingo]

6. I remember when a tank photo-op could sink a candidate.

I also recall a scream at a rally culminating a list of states took a great candidate down.

I would imagine that bar for political absurdity has been raised (lowered?) significantly since those innocent days. Candidates should just carry a pic on their phone of Trump in a fire truck.

[hibbing]

7. I remember those days too

Now a candidate can openly mock a physically challenged person, women, minorities, the list goes on and on and not even be challenged by candidates in his own party, running for the same office. We truly are in bizarroworld.


Peace

[Honeycombe8]

8. A great response. Good for Dukakis. Smart to zero in on Trump's draft dodging. nt

[BlueStater]

9. Good response.

What a fucking shitball. Not only is he picking on a dead man, but also on a guy who left public life 30 years ago. Asshole.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. cowardly Donnie is cowardly

[raccoon]

11. And those are Trump's good qualities!

“And Trump’s continued attacks on him are just another example of someone who has no sense of honor, no sense of integrity, and is absolutely gutless.”