Your cryptic message is interesting but there are actual facts to consider. Politicians don't get to call "slander." Defamation isn't a thing if you're a public figure, except under the most narrow of legal possibilities. So calling "slander" says you are probably one of the Dolanites now offended by what's coming home to roost.
It was "cryptic" for a reason, but in your reply you have it exactly backwards. It was ugly, it was not atypical, and it was not behind a closed door. That help you any?