Harry Reid Trolls Trump: Take Citizenship Test or 'Shut Up'

The outgoing senator doesn't think the GOP nominee would pass
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Aug 22, 2016 2:34 PM CDT
Harry Reid Trolls Trump: Take Citizenship Test or 'Shut Up'
FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event in Scranton, Pa. This week Clinton will address Hollywood celebrities, financial titans and high-powered attorneys. Good luck finding out what she says. The Democratic nominee hold all...   (Carolyn Kaster)

No matter the outcome of November's election, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid will never work with a President Trump—so the outspoken critic of the GOP nominee is having a little fun trolling him, reports the AP. His latest salvo: An online petition demanding that Donald Trump take the US citizenship test. The Nevada Democrat argues that Trump would likely fail and that he should be forced to prove otherwise before setting rules for new immigrants, for whom Trump has called for "extreme vetting." "Donald Trump is nothing more than a spoiled, unpatriotic drain on society who has earned nothing and helped no one," Reid says in an email sent from his fundraising committee. "And before he degrades immigrant families who work hard and give up everything they knew to come to this country, he should put up—or shut up." (More Harry Reid stories.)

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