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Editorial: Beware being Joe Biden’s attack dog, Gov. Pritzker. Flatulence can blow back

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks during a press conference at the SEIU 1991 on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Miami.

When Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered the keynote speech at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s state convention a few days ago, he returned to one of his recurrent themes: the flatulence of the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States: “But let’s all remember,” Pritzker said, “Donald Trump is just a flatulent old man with an orange spray-tan who fell asleep at his own trial.”

That was hardly all. As WisPolitics reported, Pritzker unloaded a whole arsenal of other insults at Trump, variously calling him a “racist, sexist, misogynist and narcissist,” red meat for the partisans who are not going to vote for Trump anyway.

Pritzker had used similar rhetoric before.

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