{"id":73853,"date":"2017-08-07T11:37:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T15:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73853"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:59","slug":"trump-reminds-us-about-valor-thief-blumenthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73853","title":{"rendered":"Trump reminds us about valor thief Blumenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=31035\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31035\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/blumenthal1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31035\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-renews-attack-on-democratic-senator-calling-him-a-%E2%80%98vietnam-con-artist%E2%80%99-on-twitter\/ar-AApC7hr?li=BBmkt5R&#038;ocid=ientp\">Washington Post<\/a>, President Trump is beating up on valor thief Connecticut Senator The Dick Blumenthal for his famous theft of valor for which Blumenthal was forced to apologize. Blumenthal used a spot on CNN to attack the Trump Administration yesterday which prompted the counter-attack;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPoliticizing the Department of Justice for personal ends, I think, is a disservice to the law, and it\u2019s also potentially a violation of the spirit of the First Amendment,\u201d Blumenthal said, suggesting the department was \u201cweaponizing\u201d laws against leaking sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever in U.S.history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal,\u201d Trump wrote on Twitter shortly afterward. \u201cHe told stories about his Vietnam battles and \u2026 conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie. He cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Interesting to watch Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut talking about hoax Russian collusion when he was a  phony Vietnam con artist!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/894525428236464128\">August 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Post reminds us of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19413\">Blumenthal deceit<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blumenthal obtained several deferments between 1965 and 1970 and then joined the Marine Corps Reserve, but did not serve in Vietnam. He later said he misspoke and intended to say that he was in the Marine Reserve during the Vietnam conflict.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Sgt K for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Post, President Trump is beating up on valor thief Connecticut Senator The &hellip; <a title=\"Trump reminds us about valor thief Blumenthal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73853\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump reminds us about valor thief Blumenthal<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73853","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=73853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}