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2024-08-08 18:13:53 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4041D4D1221A95F91E0C685AC0C2B7F0BB73FD70BEB4CD0454BC5E1D617246F6
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The Swift Boat Vets created by Trump’s current campaign strategist Chris LaCivita, were fined $300k for dishonestly representing themselves https://www.npr.org/2006/12/14/6623828/fec-fines-527-groups-including-swift-boat-vets The political group was later discredited; the neologism "swiftboating" arose from this & describes an unfair or untrue political attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry_military_service_controversy?wprov=sfti1#
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