President Trump spent part of his Memorial Day calling a sitting congressman and Marine Corps veteran “an American fraud.”
Part of his continuing series of attacks on Twitter, Trump also misspelled Democratic congressman Conor Lamb’s name, calling him “Connor Lamm.”
Spelling has never been a strong Trump attribute.
Trump endorsed Republican Sean Parnell, who is hoping to oust Lamb from the U.S. House seat in Pennsylvania’s 17th Congressional District.
But in endorsing Parnell — who is a former wounded Infantry officer — as an “American Hero,” the former reality TV host couldn’t resist blaming another member of the armed forces who happens to be a Democrat.
Trump baselessly claimed Lamb would somehow help to “kill” the Second Amendment and displayed his anger about Lamb’s two votes to impeach him last December.
Lamb, a Marine veteran, was stationed abroad in Okinawa, Japan, where he served for two years as a prosecutor, working primarily on cases of sexual assault.
In 2012, he was reassigned to Washington, DC, where he worked for the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals.
Lamb completed active duty service in 2013 and joined the Marine Corps Reserves.
Trump, on the other hand, received five deferment’s during the Vietnam War, the most infamous for “bone spurs in his heels.”
Lamb won a special House election in Pennsylvania’s 18th district in 2018.
He chose to run in the 17th district in the 2018 mid-term elections after redistricting affected his hometown.
Trump’s latest partisan swipe came just hours behind more self-defensive rebuttals over criticism of his golfing on Memorial Day weekend as deaths from coronavirus continue to mount and near the ominous milestone of 100,000 fatalities.
That lashing out was preceded by an outrageous Twitter rant on Saturday, in which he shared a number of far right supporter’s ugly insults of Joe Biden, slurring of Hillary Clinton, and mockery of Stacey Abrams’ weight.
Those ad hominem attacks came after he, earlier in the holiday weekend, again viciously surfaced false rumors about Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and a former staffer who died unexpectedly while working for him.
Recent polls show Trump trailing Biden, with 160 days to go until the election.