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When questioned by reporters about the unflattering allegations, Klobuchar responded, "Yes, I can push back,"<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/02/10/klobuchar-on-staff-abuse-claims-yes-i-can-be-tough/</ref> a possible indication of a suspicion complex and [[paranoid]] personality disorder that even close associates are "out to get her."

When questioned by reporters about the unflattering allegations, Klobuchar responded, "Yes, I can push back,"<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/02/10/klobuchar-on-staff-abuse-claims-yes-i-can-be-tough/</ref> a possible indication of a suspicion complex and [[paranoid]] personality disorder that even close associates are "out to get her."

In violation of Senate ethics rules, Klobuchar assigned demeaning tasks such as washing her dirty dishes in her home and picking up her dry cleaning. When questioned, press aides of the Klobuchar machine used the old trope of charging [[sexism]], implying that male colleagues do it all the time.

In violation of Senate ethics rules, Klobuchar assigned demeaning tasks such as washing her dirty dishes in her home and picking up her dry cleaning. When questioned, press aides of the Klobuchar machine used the old trope of charging [[sexism]], implying that male colleagues do it all the time. According to the ''[[The New York Times]]'', Klobuchar once berated an aide for bringing her a salad in an airport without a fork, then ate the salad with a comb and forced the aide to clean the comb. [[NBC News]] has not verified the report.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/klobuchar-ate-her-salad-comb-report-says-n974746</ref>

The reality of working for Klobuchar is at odds with the Midwestern-nice image she has cultivated in public: an unflappable workhorse and “The Senator Next Door,” which was the title of her 2015 memoir.<ref>A take-off of the image cultivated of [[Harry Truman]] as "the guy next door" after the [[aristocratic]] presidency of [[Franklin Roosevelt]].<br>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=HHhQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT36&lpg=PT36&dq=If+Harry+Truman+could+be+president,+so+could+my+next-door+neighbor&source=bl&ots=A7etFcuLNI&sig=ACfU3U25wD5Op6cFMg56SFAUq2dorpY_Ow&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwioiPSYnsjgAhWHz4MKHfhsBbwQ6AEwCXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=If%20Harry%20Truman%20could%20be%20president%2C%20so%20could%20my%20next-door%20neighbor&f=false The Image Is Everything Presidency: Dilemmas In American Leadership]'', Gilbert St. Clair, Routledge, Mar 9, 2018.<br>Basically, recycled Marxist [[class warfare]] in a subtle Midwestern sense.</ref>

The reality of working for Klobuchar is at odds with the Midwestern-nice image she has cultivated in public: an unflappable workhorse and “The Senator Next Door,” which was the title of her 2015 memoir.<ref>A take-off of the image cultivated of [[Harry Truman]] as "the guy next door" after the [[aristocratic]] presidency of [[Franklin Roosevelt]].<br>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=HHhQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT36&lpg=PT36&dq=If+Harry+Truman+could+be+president,+so+could+my+next-door+neighbor&source=bl&ots=A7etFcuLNI&sig=ACfU3U25wD5Op6cFMg56SFAUq2dorpY_Ow&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwioiPSYnsjgAhWHz4MKHfhsBbwQ6AEwCXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=If%20Harry%20Truman%20could%20be%20president%2C%20so%20could%20my%20next-door%20neighbor&f=false The Image Is Everything Presidency: Dilemmas In American Leadership]'', Gilbert St. Clair, Routledge, Mar 9, 2018.<br>Basically, recycled Marxist [[class warfare]] in a subtle Midwestern sense.</ref>