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President Donald Trump\u2019s close assistant Natalie Harp was criticized in a recent political speech by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA). When a former Trump adviser took umbrage at the attack, a former prosecutor seemed unable to contain his mirth at the apparent double-standard.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe didn’t attack a young woman for doing her job,\u201d Bryan Lanza, who served as Communications Director for President Donald J. Trump’s Transition Team, told CNN\u2019s Kasie Hunt on Monday. \u201cThat young woman, Natalie \u2014 she has parents who are probably appalled by Ossoff’s behavior today, and by what he implied. So I think, you know, where we’ve seen the Democratic Party go is a race to the gutter.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThe Republican Party has sort of been there already \u2014 we’ve floated in that space. But now the Democratic Party, and like Ossoff, who’s the leading potential frontrunner for the Democratic Party \u2014 people are cheering the fact that he maligned somebody who has sacrificed a significant amount of their livelihood to serve this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunt quoted Trump\u2019s adviser Steven Cheung referring to Ossoff as a \u201cc\u2014\u2014,\u201d asking if this was not also \u201cgutter behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they’re both the gutter, but that’s gutter politics,\u201d Lanza said. \u201cThat’s where we are today. That’s where we’ve been for a while. It’s where we’ve landed. And that’s where we’re going to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elliot Williams, a former federal prosecutor, began laughing at Lanza\u2019s outrage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love you, man, I appreciate that,\u201d the chuckling Williams said. \u201cI just \u2014 it’s a little rich, after nearly a decade of Donald Trump, for anyone in the United States to start pointing a finger at someone for rhetoric or language around, frankly, sex.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the controversial comment, Ossoff criticized Trump for seeming to care more about his pet political projects and making billions while in office than the thousands of American soldiers fighting the war he waged against Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar,\u201d Ossoff said, referring to how Trump snuck off Air Force One with Harp after Israel reported a potential assassination attempt against him.<\/p>\n

In response to this, Cheung insulted Ossoff with sexual slurs, then closed by describing him as a \u201cradical, extremist Dumocrat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier in the CNN segment, Lanza told Hunt that Republicans would love to be able to characterize Democrats as extreme, such as by running against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as their presidential nominee in 2028.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, my take as a Republican operative is: bring on AOC,\u201d Lanza said. \u201cWe would love to run against AOC in 2028, because her positions are outside the mainstream of America \u2014 they’re more in line with San Francisco, and this country has rejected that kind of politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

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