Jon Ossoff dodges on why he invoked Trump aide's name during Georgia campaign rally

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Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., did not say why he invoked President Donald Trump 's executive assistant, Natalie Harp, directly during a campaign rally, when confronted during an interview Monday.

"Obviously, that speech you gave over the weekend, lots of people have questions about it.

Why did you decide to invoke Natalie Harp specifically in that speech?" MS NOW host Jen Psaki asked.

The senator made the comment during a campaign rally in Atlanta , and a video of the moment went viral on social media.

He said Trump wants to "travel with Natalie" rather than do the job of the presidency, with some progressives gleefully suggesting online that he was nodding to unfounded rumors that they were involved.

ERIC TRUMP PLANS TO SUE JEN PSAKI, MS NOW FOR ALLEGED 'BLATANT LIES' ABOUT HIM JOINING FATHER'S CHINA TRIP "We're in wartime.

The commander-in-chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster.

People have lost their lives, our naval logistics are frayed, the global energy system is in crisis, and he retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who are his security blanket, to make him feel good about himself, to reassure him that he's doing a great job, to help him while he designs his new ballroom," Ossoff responded.

"And he adorns the Oval Office in gold and depicts the interior decorations on this new luxury flying palace he received from a foreign prince, when every single minute of every single day what the President of the United States should be doing is bearing his most solemn burden of care for the sailors and Marines and aviators and all service members deployed on his orders on the basis of his lies to this disaster in the Middle East," he continued.

Psaki pressed him to explain why he "specifically" mentioned Harp.

"Well, I've heard this particular aide referred to as his security blanket, and I think we could say that about any number of the senior aides in the White House.

They're not telling him what he needs to hear, they're telling him what he wants to hear.

And the nation is at war, and we cannot afford that.