Desperate times: Trumpers launch Swiftboating 2.0 [View all]
Donald Trump is down so bad that his campaign is bringing back Republican dirty tricks from 20 years ago.
Kamala Harris is packing arenas and rising in the polls while Trump whines about crowd sizes during incoherent press conferences and in insane Truth Social posts. Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, is a breakout star — a sharp contrast to Trump’s pick, JD Vance, who can’t shake the notion that he’s a creepy weirdo. Put it together and it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Trump team is targeting Walz with a sleazy smear campaign that recalls the infamous “swiftboating” attacks against John Kerry. The approach isn’t a coincidence, either: Chris LaCivita, Trump’s senior campaign adviser, coordinated the “swiftboating” smears back in 2004.
Last week, Vance claimed that Walz abandoned his National Guard unit just before it was deployed to Iraq in 2005.
“When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, you know what he did? He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him,” Vance said during a speech. He’s also accused Walz of exaggerating his record of service.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/swiftboating-vance-walz-military-record
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