'Tough guy!': Trump mocks Bret Stephens over bedbug controversy

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Trump doubled-down on his mockery of conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, sarcastically ribbing the journalist as a “Tough guy!” for deactivating his Twitter account

President Donald Trump on Wednesday doubled-down on his mockery of conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, sarcastically ribbing the journalist as a “Tough guy!” for deactivating his Twitter account following criticism by a college professor.

“I’m often amazed about the things supposedly decent people are prepared to say about other people -- people they’ve never met -- on Twitter. I think you’ve set a new standard,” Stephens wrote, according to a copy of the message Karpf“I would welcome the opportunity for you to come to my home, meet my wife and kids, talk to us for … a few minutes, and then call me a ‘bedbug’ to my face,” Stephens wrote. “That would take some genuine courage and intellectual integrity on your part.

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