Trump accuses Democrats of hypocrisy on Platner, despite questions about his own conduct
The president also called Platner “worse than any human being that's ever run for office, probably.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump laced into Graham Platner on Wednesday, calling the Senate candidate from Maine a “thug” and a “pig” and suggesting that the Democratic Party was hypocritical for lining up behind someone with so many questions about his past personal conduct and treatment of women .
That line of political attack was striking coming from a president who himself has been accused of misconduct with women , was once caught on audio bragging about grabbing women by the genitals and was found liable by a New York jury for sexual abuse .
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