President Donald Trump reveled in Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Senate Judiciary hearing attack on Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), taking to social media to call for an investigation into the “sanctimonious” Democrat he called “the greatest phony in the history of the United States Senate.”
Trump’s jab came after Bondi dredged up Blumenthal’s old military service scandal as he grilled her on whether the president had pressured the Justice Department to indict former FBI director James Comey – presenting a photo of a cabinet dinner held the night before the indictment was revealed.
During the grilling, Bondi sniped: “I’m not going to be lectured to you about integrity by someone who lied about being in the military just to be elected as senator.”
Trump delighted in the takedown in a Truth Social post late Tuesday and called for “justice”:
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!
(Screengrab via Truth Social)
Trump has used the story several times over the past decade to criticize Blumenthal.
Despite the president’s attack on the “Fake News Media” in the post, revelations about Blumenthal came after a 2010 New York Times investigation found that the senator had misrepresented his military service, after years of suggesting he had served in Vietnam.
The outlet discovered the Democrat had received at least five deferments from 1965 to 1970 before joining the Reserves and had “sometimes falsely claimed” to be a Vietnam veteran, an impression that had become part of his public image.
Blumenthal later apologized, saying he regretted claiming he’d served “in” Vietnam rather than “during” it.
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