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2024-08-08 21:30:03 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 7557846617520B7A770EE0F6F5C11DB0F7F4D08E86EF1CCC4E7A8F772C1C01CD
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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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