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BLUMENTHAL: “As a federal judge, you’re aware of the jury instruction falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, are you not? You’re aware of that jury instruction.”
KAVANAUGH: “I am.”
BLUMENTHAL: “You know what it means.”
KAVANAUGH: “You can translate it for me, Senator, you can do it better than I can.”
BLUMENTHAL: “False in one thing, false in everything, meaning in jury instructions, that we — some of us, as prosecutors, have heard many times, is told a jury that they can disbelieve a witness if they find them to be false in one thing. So, the core of why we’re here today really is credibility.
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Blumenthal's own history with the truth is coming back to haunt him.
"False in one thing, false in everything"?
President Trump and Republican lawmakers noted the hypocrisy of those words coming from Blumenthal, who has been criticized for lying about his military service during the Vietnam War.
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Blumenthal's own history with the truth is coming back to haunt him.
"False in one thing, false in everything"?
President Trump and Republican lawmakers noted the hypocrisy of those words coming from Blumenthal, who has been criticized for lying about his military service during the Vietnam War.
Stolen Valor DaNang Richard Blumenthal
Blumenthal has implied in the past that he served on the ground in Vietnam, although he reportedly obtained at least five military deferments between 1965 and 1970. He eventually served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, but did not deploy to Vietnam.
“You have the great Vietnam War hero—who didn’t go to Vietnam—Blumenthal,” Trump said at a rally Monday evening. “How about Blumenthal? We call him ‘Da Nang Blumenthal.”
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Blumenthal has implied in the past that he served on the ground in Vietnam, although he reportedly obtained at least five military deferments between 1965 and 1970. He eventually served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, but did not deploy to Vietnam.
“You have the great Vietnam War hero—who didn’t go to Vietnam—Blumenthal,” Trump said at a rally Monday evening. “How about Blumenthal? We call him ‘Da Nang Blumenthal.”