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Jon Ossoff calls out ‘Mar-a-Lago mafia’ amid presidential bid rumors

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Georgia senator says Americans will pay for Trump’s Iran war, and family’s corruption, with child and health care cuts
The Guardian Robert Mackey
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At a campaign rally in Augusta, Georgia, on Saturday, the Democratic senator Jon Ossoff mocked Donald Trump’s rosy predictions on Iran and tore into what he called the unprecedented corruption of the president’s family. The senator noted that the $200bn the White House requested to pay for the war on Iran would be enough to “fund a decade, ten full year years of nationwide, universal pre-kindergarten”.
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Jon Ossoff calls out ‘Mar-a-Lago mafia’ amid presidential bid rumors
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US politics, Georgia, US Senate, Donald Trump, JD Vance, US news
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