President Trump attacks Sen. Richard Blumenthal over Vietnam service


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DATE: Aug. 7, 2017, 4:47 p.m.

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  1. Being out of town hasn't kept President Trump from going on the Twitter assault.
  2. On Monday, the president reprimanded Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. The congressperson had showed up on CNN that morning, talking about the Justice Department's crackdown on releases, the approvals on North Korea and what he called "potential agreement" between the Trump battle and Russia.
  3. "That examination must be sought after," Blumenthal, an individual from the Senate Judiciary Committee, said of the continuous Russia tests.
  4. That drew the president's rage, with the president calling Blumenthal an "imposter Vietnam cheat."
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  7. Fascinating to watch Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut discussing fabrication Russian conspiracy when he was a fraud Vietnam extortionist!
  8. 2:47 PM - Aug 7, 2017
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  13. Never in U.S.history has anybody lied or duped voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal. He recounted stories about his Vietnam fights and....
  14. 2:52 PM - Aug 7, 2017
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  19. ...victories, how overcome he was, and it was every one of the a lie. He wept hysterically and asked for pardoning like a tyke. Presently he judges plot?
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  23. Blumenthal did surely overstate about his military administration, incorporating one outstanding event in 2008, when he told a gathering of veterans and senior nationals, "We have gotten the hang of something imperative since the days that I served in Vietnam." He got various military postponements amid the Vietnam War before arriving in the Marine Reserve. He at that point served in the hold from 1970 to 1976.
  24. While assaulting Blumenthal over Vietnam isn't new for Trump — he's done it twice before this year - Trump additionally got numerous delays amid the Vietnam War, and he never served in the military.
  25. Blumenthal shot back at the president's tweets:
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  27. Richard Blumenthal ✔ @SenBlumenthal
  28. Mr. President: Your harassing hasn't worked earlier and it won't work now. Nobody is exempt from the rules that everyone else follows.
  29. 4:27 PM - Aug 7, 2017
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  32. Blumenthal co-supported enactment a week ago intended to ensure uncommon advice Robert

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