Pete Buttigieg, South Bend, Indiana mayor and contender for the Democratic nomination for president, said Thursday that he criticizes President Donald Trump “to call out hypocrisy.”
"I work very hard to make sure that when we oppose this president we're not emulating him," Buttigieg said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” in an interview Thursday.
"But we do need to call out hypocrisy when we see it and when we have people wrapping themselves in the flag, who evidently faked a disability in order to get out of serving, when you have somebody seeming to want to impose his religion on others as the vice president has, and at the same time teaming up with the presidency that seems to have no regard for, at least, what I would consider to be Christian values, I do think that hypocrisy needs to be called out,” the mayor continued.
"It needs to be called out forcefully," he said. "But we need to be factual and we need to be honest and we do, in resolving all of this disagreement, need to be decent as well."
Buttigieg also blasted Trump for branding Medicare-for-all and the “Green New Deal” as socialist, which he said is misleading.
"The president is adopting a tactic that takes us back to the darkest days of the '50s when you could use the word 'socialist' to kill somebody's career, or to kill an idea, but that trick has been tried so many times that I think it's losing all meaning," he said.
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