Lie October 2, 2018 · Rally · Other

“Da Nang Richard Blumenthal. This guy lied about his service. He didn't just say, ‘Gee, I was in the service.’ No. He said, ‘I was in the Marines. Da Nang Province. Soldiers dying left and right as we battled up the hill.’ This went on for 15 years when he was the attorney general of Connecticut. I thought he was a great war hero. And then it turned out he was never in Vietnam.”

Said
October 2, 2018
Where
Campaign rally
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Other
Repeated
19 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 5799)

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