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Trump Attacked Chrissy Teigen On Twitter; She Wasn't Having It
The Twitterverse lit up Monday morning over model Chrissy Teigen's response to an attack from President Donald Trump, an exchange that was heated even by the standards of his routine social media fights.
The spat began when the President, apparently venting about a town hall on criminal justice reform that aired on MSNBC Sunday night, tweeted that he and other Re- publicans should be getting more credit for signing the First Step Act into law.
The legislation, signed back in December, includes meas- ures that allows thousands of federal inmates to leave prison earlier than they otherwise
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would have, eases some mandatory minimum sen- tences and gives judges more
leeway in sentencing, among other things. It had support from lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle and received personal attention from Trump's son-in-law and senior White House ad- viser Jared Kushner.
"I SIGNED IT INTO LAW, no one else did, & Republicans deserve much credit. But now that it is passed, people that had virtually nothing to do with it are taking the praise," the President tweeted late Sunday night.
Then Trump went after singer and activist John Leg- end (who appeared in the MSNBC town hall) and his wife Teigen.
"Guys like boring musician
@johnlegend, and his filthy mouthed wife, are talking now about how great it is - but I didn't see them around when we needed help getting it passed," the President wrote. Teigen fired right back with a colorful insult of her own.
"(L)ol what a p**** a** b****. tagged everyone but me. an honor, mister presi- dent," she tweeted.
By Monday morning, Chrissy Teigen, #Team- Chrissy and #filthymouthed- wife were all trending on Twitter.
Legend criticized the Pres- ident, too -- without the pro- fanity -- by tweeting, "Imagine being president of a whole country and spending your
Sunday night hate-watching MSNBC hoping somebody -- ANYBODY -- will praise you."
Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's former communica- tions director who has now disavowed the President, on Monday called the spat be- tween Trump and the celebrity couple "despicable."
"Have any of the other presidents in recent history -- modern history -- gone after their private citizens whether they're celebrities or not celebrities?" Scaramucci told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day." "(For) the last two and a half years this guy has acted like a bully, crazy person against his fellow citizens."
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