It's Halloween: time to bring CT Senator Blumenthal's Vietnam skeletons out of the closet

President Trump threw a counter punch at CT Senator Blumenthal (D) after he questioned Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi's integrity at a recent hearing. In a fiery post on social media Trump wrote this:

Sanctimonious Richard "Da Nang Dick" Blumenthal, perhaps the biggest "joke" in the United States Senate, is at it again! "Dick" lied until the midpoint of his political career, convincing everyone, in particular the Fake News Media, that he was a great "War Hero" who lived on the precipice of death in the jungles of Vietnam. He would talk about his life in the military in almost every speech, in particular the death defying dangers he faced in his many years "fight for freedom" while in Vietnam. He stated that "the battles were violent and long, but there was no going back" - And then it happened, Blumenthal was found out to be a FRAUD. The soldiers in his so-called "platoon" came forward and said that they had no idea who this guy was. He was revealed, broke down and admitted, tears flowing from his eyes, that he LIED, a Whopper, one that lasted 20 year. This guy shouldn't even be in the U.S. Senate. It should be investigated, and Justice should be sought. Right now there is a Congressman sitting in prison for lying about his past during a campaign. Well, those lies were nothing compared to those of Richard "Da Nang Dick" Blumenthal, perhaps the greatest phony in the history of the United States Senate. He should be allowed to speak no longer!

Blumenthal defended his record here saying on CNN that "this allegation of 15 years ago has been rejected by the voters of Connecticut three times, overwhelmingly re-electing me."

Between the Lines: Note that Senator Blumenthal used the support that Connecticut voters gave him in three elections to imply that no one really cared about his Vietnam misstatements anyway.

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