{"id":816829,"date":"2026-08-17T18:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816829\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:42:10","slug":"jon-ossoff-calls-trumps-handling-of-iran-war-uniquely-despicable-in-excoriating-speech-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816829\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Ossoff calls Trump\u2019s handling of Iran war \u2018uniquely despicable\u2019 in excoriating speech | Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic senator Jon Ossoff has attacked Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cuniquely despicable\u201d handling of the US-Israel war on Iran, accusing the US president of \u201cre-rigging\u201d a corrupt system for himself in an excoriating speech.<\/p>\n

Ossoff, who is running for re-election in Georgia<\/a> in November, has repeatedly stoked speculation that he is laying the ground for a bid for the US presidency in 2028 by delivering a series of stinging attacks on Trump and his administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey made you pay more for everything, and took us to war on lies, and spent most of last year trying to cover up for the world\u2019s most famous pedophile while the crook president and his crook family raked in billions while your tax dollars were put to work backing Trump\u2019s businesses,\u201d Ossoff said at a rally in midtown Atlanta on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

He pointed to the US sailors enduring a record-setting deployment of nearly nine months onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, amid mounting concern over conditions and mental health issues onboard the aircraft carrier, whom Trump suggested last week had not been deployed \u201cnearly long enough\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings,\u201d Ossoff said. \u201cHe golfs and trades stocks. See, he doesn\u2019t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the amir of Qatar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ossoff appears to have been referring to Natalie Harp, Trump\u2019s executive assistant, who has drawn scrutiny on social media for her perceived closeness to the US president. It emerged last week that Harp accompanied the president when he left Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent and other key officials on a decoy plane as they left Turkey under threat of Iranian attack<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n

Stump speeches like the one he delivered on Sunday, with plain, sharp language well-tailored for social media, have become a staple of Ossoff\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve lied non-stop about this war like they lie about everything. And they know they\u2019re lying, but they lie and they keep lying anyway because in this White House, they view persistence in deceit as a virtue,\u201d the senator said. \u201cAnd there\u2019s something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war, treating citizens as fools and those who serve as pawns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early voting begins in eight weeks in Georgia, and Ossoff has maintained a lead well above the margins for error in polling above the Republican nominee, US representative Mike Collins. But Ossoff has framed his campaign as something more than a referendum on his term in office, raising broader questions about Americans\u2019 tolerance for corruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cCorruption in American politics runs a lot deeper than Donald Trump,\u201d Ossoff said, pointing to what he called the \u201ccoin-operated\u201d politics of political action committees. \u201cTrump promised to attack a broken system. I get it. Right target. Yes, the system is really rigged. But he\u2019s not unrigging it. He\u2019s re-rigging it for himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ossoff\u2019s personal wealth is held in a blind trust. He has pursued a ban on stock trading by members of US Congress and their families as a signature political issue. The Ending Trading and Holdings In Congressional Stocks Act passed out of the preliminary committee stage in July 2024, but has not been put to a vote in the Republican-controlled US Senate.<\/p>\n

Ossoff also highlighted the vast increase in Trump\u2019s personal wealth since he returned to office in January 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he first announced the tariffs, you remember that? He called it liberation day and it crashed the markets because it was clown policy,\u201d Ossoff said, noting how the president then purchased stock a week after the markets fell. \u201cAnd then the very next morning, April 9th, he posts on Truth Social. \u2018This is a great time to buy.\u2019 Three exclamation marks.<\/p>\n

\u201cOK, now listen to this. Three hours and 41 minutes after that post, one day after he bought millions in stock, he cancelled the tariffs and triggered one of the biggest same day rebound rallies in market history. He\u2019s trying to get money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump launched a subscription service on 1 August charging up to $100,000 a month for early access to his posts on his Truth Social platform. The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation have launched a suit against Trump, two of his aides and the executive office of the president over the service.<\/p>\n

Ossoff attacked the president over the offering. \u201cJust understand what\u2019s for sale here,\u201d he said. \u201cThe sitting president\u2019s pronouncements on war and peace and economic policy delivered first to paying customers. What an absolute crook.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic senator Jon Ossoff has attacked Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cuniquely despicable\u201d handling of the US-Israel war on Iran, accusing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-816829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}