{"id":19167,"date":"2010-05-18T19:08:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19167"},"modified":"2010-05-18T19:12:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:12:32","slug":"whats-funny-blumenthal-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19167","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s funny about the Blumenthal conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1stCavRVN11B sent me a message from one of his friends who recognized one of the veterans on the stage with Richard Blumenthal from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pownetwork.org\/phonies\/phonies293.htm\">POW Net&#8217;s Wall of Shame<\/a>. His name is William Joseph Trumpower and here&#8217;s the picture of him at Blumenthal&#8217;s press conference taken from a screenshot of a Fox News video;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Elliot-Storm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19168\" title=\"Elliot Storm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Elliot-Storm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Elliot-Storm.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Elliot-Storm-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a screen shot of an interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtnh.com\/dpp\/on_air\/gmc_weekend\/news_wtnh_war_vet_stress_200911081018\">Trumpower did on local TV<\/a> under his AKA name Elliot Storm;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Elliot-Storm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19169\" title=\"Elliot Storm1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Elliot-Storm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Elliot-Storm1.jpg 323w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Elliot-Storm1-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trumpower or Storm actually did serve in Vietnam, but he embellished his career to sell a book.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> CLAIMING BRONZE STAR w\/VALOR device. Claims 2nd Lt, Claims Wears 3 Purple Hearts, 2 Bronze Stars w\/V. The jacket in EARLIER pictures boasted 8 ribbons.  This NEW pic has more and includes V device on Bronze Star and 2nd Lt bars. Claims he worked with Ollie North. <\/p>\n<p>ACTUAL &#8211; National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Purple Heart w\/1*.  Served 11 Oct 1968 to 30 Jan 1970 as a USMC rifleman (MOS 0311). Has enlisted service number (not officer&#8217;s)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more at the POW Net link including an email Trumpower sent to our friends admitting his chicanery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1stCavRVN11B sent me a message from one of his friends who recognized one of the veterans &hellip; <a title=\"What&#8217;s funny about the Blumenthal conference\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19167\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s funny about the Blumenthal conference<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}