marton, what are you doing?
You jump on every dumb line Trump lets out and treat it as cast in stone.
You not only easily excuse someone's wrong statement in a - what I guess was some serious speech - but it's also totally sufficiant to set it straight 2 (two) years later by simply stating it differently, not by actually officially mentioning the faut pas of two years earlier and correcting it.

You're taking sides. When your "side" slips you just sweep over it, when the other side slips, it's serious. By doing that you pour water on (in this case) Trump's mill. He can refer back to this for ever if he wants to and he does want to, LOL, as he gets so little "right".
If someone needs to be proven wrong/incapable or what ever the case, it must be done 200% correctly or it either can't be won or the victory will be short-dated.
Trump makes far enough mistakes, it is not necessary to try to hang him on a rope that won't hold.

It's okay you disagree with me but I find it very important to fight whatever fight correctly. So I will keep pointing such things out, I'm afraid.

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It's all a matter or perspective.
So move your butt and look at it from the other side

Bit of reverse psychology... If 5 of your closest friends and advisors were fraternising with a group of 20+ (let's just say...) Italian friends, wouldn't you be wondering why you were repeatedly excluded from the fun?

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...ouse-testimony

Back to the OP - basic answer ... NO !

I posted "the Connecticut senator, Dick Blumenthal, has never claimed to have served in combat in Vietnam?"

As you yourself posted "Several outlets went on to erroneously report that Blumenthal had served in combat "

Yeah, what ever. Make sure you don't lose your two different yardsticks - which was the point of my post.



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But it was not the Dems who called it a campaign contribution?;
It was the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York who said in his court filing "Cohen’s Illegal Campaign Contributions "
&
"Cohen sent monthly invoices to the Company for these $35,000 payments, falsely indicating that the invoices were being sent pursuant to a “retainer agreement.”
The Company then falsely accounted for these payments as “legal expenses.”
In fact, no such retainer agreement existed and these payments were not “legal expenses”"

Quite different from Obama who did not cause invoices to be falsified!

Last word again for George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway,

Meanwhile a year later in the real world today

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Trump's basic problem (as the ex- Secretary of State Tillerson described) is he just ignores the law of the land which ignorance always comes back to bite him!

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Seems Trump has not yet turned the Supreme Court into his puppet!

News just in: the NRA is pushing hard for open carry permits for all citizens for smocking guns.

Some commentators believe these strenuous efforts against restrictions of the firearm, little known to most people until Donald Trump demonstrated his familiarity with the weapon yesterday, are designed to draw attention away from Maria Butina, the Russian woman who has just pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to infiltrate the upper levels of the NRA on behalf of the Russian government. Butina has been seen socialising and having other contact with various members of the Trump campaign and administration.

Butina has denied carrying a smocking gun, stating that she has no interest in dressmaking.

Example of Spanky's weird logic; so the FBI should not seek evidence of a crime before they already have the evidence.

Another example is firing his chief of staff to leave at the end of the year with no replacement lined up, so clearly no plan for a handover!

Probably not so easy to find a new chief of staff to run the ever more chaotic White House now facing a Dem takeover of the House plus an ever more serious FBI investigation
Any new chief of staff would be well advised to have deep pockets to lawyer up before moving in!

Should she change her mind then when it comes time to trim it she would do well to remember theres no smock without fur.

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Not surprising that Mueller's ratings fall while Trump, the GOP and allies keep attacking him. But they are wasting their time because when Mueller finds a juicy case then he is clever enough to hand it over to another FBI office who deal with it free from any allegations about their independence.

Meanwhile it seems investigators are closing in on the Trump Organisation over who approved payment of Cohen's phoney invoices for legal services that were actually used to pay mistresses.
In a 2015 deposition related to a lawsuit against Trump University, Trump Organization's chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg said only five people had the authority to sign checks for the organization (the President, his adult children -- Eric, Donald Jr. and Ivanka Trump -- & Weisselberg).

An immunity agreement was given to Weisselberg before Cohen was charged, it is not known if this immunity agreement covers these false invoices? If it does then it just leaves Trump's family holding the ring!!

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I doubt anybody under 10 years old would be a suitable candidate

Meanwhile top of a Yale Law School librarian’s list for the most notable quotes of 2018;
In response to moderator Chuck Todd's statement that “truth is truth,” Giuliani a personal attorney for President Trump responded:
“No, it isn’t truth. Truth isn’t truth.”

But it would certainly add maturity to the oval office though.

Trump'll be "proud" to shut down the government if he doesn't get the funding for his wall.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46515119

Duh, if he shuts down the government aren't they all out of a job? Sounds like a great idea to me.

Completely given away his negotiation edge; now the Dems can completely ignore his Wall demands

Seems last word goes to Pelosi, it is claimed she said in a private Dem meeting
“It goes to show you: You get into a tinkle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you,”

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Looks like the golden future of happy bipartisan deals is already in the toilet (to continue the metaphor)

Two of the three major US stock indices are negative versus the start of the year.

Would be a shame for Trump if he was the first President since 2008 to have a negative Stock Market year; he may be lucky as markets usually pick up near the end of December.