Character assassination As we saw in 2020, character assassination will be at the heart of Trump's enterprise.
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Is that what Hollywood called lewd and obscene character assassination?
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" Pell maintains he's innocent and the victim of "character assassination.
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Many scenes cross from dramatic interpretation to outright character assassination.
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Viorica Dancila blamed Romania's opposition for mounting a character assassination.
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Like Bill Clinton, Trump's character assassination is largely his own doing.
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Millions tuned in to see Republicans engage in a character assassination.
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"That this is nothing more than a character assassination," Collins said.
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Slights and sarcasm quickly escalate to name-calling and character assassination.
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Others scoff at the question, dismissing it as outrageous character assassination.
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It's part of a broader character assassination campaign against these students.
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"It's character assassination," an emotional de Lima told reporters at the Senate.
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" Trump education adviser Rob Goad described the plagiarism allegations as "character assassination.
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The Constituent Assembly promptly fired her amid a campaign of character assassination.
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All Alayah can do is silently listen to her own character assassination.
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Why should I risk character assassination of myself to run for office?
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The character assassination of women who don't toe the party line will backfire.
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No amount of character assassination, record distortion, or inappropriate questioning will change that.
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" Gevers told Reuters that the letter's censure represented nothing but "attempted character assassination.
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Democrats made a strategic error with the failed character assassination of Brett Kavanaugh.
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The civility that once prevailed on Capitol Hill gave way to character assassination.
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"I don't understand the character assassination," Cary told Redmond on Monday, denying the affair.
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McCarthy's assistant was Roy Cohn, an attorney who perfected the art of character assassination.
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It is being replaced by a game of delay, deception, and wholesale character assassination.
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"This is nothing more than a last-minute attempt at character assassination," she said.
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Trump's Twitter feed over the past 72 hours reeks of that attempted character assassination.
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Adam and Eve — but mostly Eve — are victims of the greatest character assassination ever.
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For a campaign of character assassination, Bannon and Breitbart News offer Trump an experienced ally.
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And the persecution of whistleblowers is often accompanied by ruthless character assassination to discredit them.
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"This is nothing more than character assassination," Doug Collins, the committee's ranking GOP member, said.
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Team McCaskill is already employing the Democratic Party's go-to tactic this midterm: character assassination.
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Brock's long history of character assassination and penchant for attacking those on the left continues.
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The Democrats are engaged in a campaign of delay and character assassination against Judge Kavanaugh.
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" Nebraska Senator Deb Fischer, a Republican, called the ABA rating a "baseless political character assassination.
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Blogger and radio host Erick Erickson called the allegations an attempt at "character assassination" against Kavanaugh.
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This is the character assassination by association, and that&aposs what makes it so incredibly disgusting.
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Sun never descends into character assassination, but offers compelling evidence that Lu Xun was no saint.
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Battle royale The three debates will also matter since both campaigns are centered on character assassination.
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Both Kavanaugh and Ford are victims of partisan "character assassination," he argued from the Senate floor.
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The photos were clearly staged and apparently had been leaked as a form of character assassination.
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He denied the accusations and denounced what he called a "relentless character assassination" in the media.
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In a letter to the Judiciary panel, Kavanaugh said he was the victim of character assassination.
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Yes, it's still possible that Kavanaugh is the victim of a character assassination or mistaken identity.
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They moved to discredit the entire investigation through rumors, partisan memos, scandalous innuendo and character assassination.
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" He said he had been subjected to "slander and fake news that bordered on character assassination.
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He said the price was in the normal range of what hackers demand for character assassination.
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"Character assassination works," he argues in front of Clinton Party operatives, who refuse to run negative ads.
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"We've all experience the wrath of Vanderpump and it's terrible because it's a character assassination," Grammer said.
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But the character assassination that has been fairly common in nomination fights has so far been absent.
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Feden said the defense strategy to attack the credibility of Constand and others amounted to character assassination.
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"That character assassination that Ms. Bliss put those women through was shameful, was utterly shameful," she said.
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In the process of running, many have faced abuse that includes sexual assault, intimidation and character assassination.
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These days, there are consequences for literal political assassinations and even for character assassination based on lies.
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He denied it and Kate was subjected to character assassination in the press and a government inquiry.
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Republicans have accused Democrats or presiding over a last-minute "smear" campaign and character assassination against Kavanaugh.
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To the Editor: It is time to stand up to the character assassination attempts against Hillary Clinton.
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" Cotton, in a statement, put the blame on Democrats for the stories -- and called it "character assassination.
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"The Democrats are engaged in a campaign of delay and character assassination against Judge Kavanaugh," Arkansas Sen.
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In fact, "character assassination" and "narratives" have essentially been laid at the foundation of her entire career.
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This grotesque character assassination will dissuade confident and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
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Swift, who has since responded to the video, calling it "character assassination," hopes others agree with the actress.
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Some are subjected to character assassination campaigns with reports of illicit sexual relations or contacts with foreign governments.
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I had my own altercation with Thomas and I found out that he can be into character assassination.
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"Justice for [Daenerys's] character assassination and the characters' poorly rushed story arcs," exclaimed one of the petition's signatories.
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This grotesque character assassination will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
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I think it was an absolutely inappropriate attack and a classic character assassination they do all the time.
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This grotesque, character assassination will dissuade confident and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
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Pollock, the documentary filmmaker, said the selective withholding of the video evidence suggests an attempt at character assassination.
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The amount of misleading information about Page contained in these pages is extraordinary and amounts to character assassination.
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In a statement, the cardinal's office called the book "an exercise in character assassination," the news media reported.
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"A character assassination based solely on innuendo was launched against me attacking my credentials and character," she said.
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" He concludes, "The fact that something is malicious character assassination doesn't mean it's not protected by the First Amendment.
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But Nugent's comments aren't a one-off incident — they're part of a broader campaign of politically motivated character assassination.
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It was fake news packaged to appear superficially credible, and circulated electronically in an apparent effort at character assassination.
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Mr Johnson also chronicles the rise of "slashing negative television advertisements, character assassination and partial truths" in winning elections.
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"It's been one personal assault after another and a kind of character assassination, having nothing to do with economics."
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The FBI's tone shift from legal argument to character assassination in its filings had clearly taken Apple off guard.
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Kavanaugh flatly denied the allegation, calling it "grotesque and obvious character assassination " and vowing not to withdraw his nomination.
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De Lima told reporters that she found his comments to be "foul" and that they amounted to character assassination.
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Swift has since accused the pair of "character assassination" and claims she has been "falsely painted as a liar".
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" At a news conference in Rome on Thursday, Pell said he had been the victim of "relentless character assassination.
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Opponents and rivals are one thing, but with enemies, individuals want to destroy them through labeling and character assassination.
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If Mueller is fired, how much obscene & horseshit character assassination will Trump & allies level against this honored military vet?
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Many doctors bridle at any criticism of their bedside manner, viewing it as something akin to "character assassination," Back said.
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This grotesque and coordinated character assassination will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
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The most iconic character assassination to ever grace HBO is the constant short girl attacks on Madeline from Marie Louise.
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Lindsey Graham raged against what they call character assassination, brought a new level of emotional intensity to the Republican campaign.
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"If they do attack her personally or engage in character assassination or whatever, they know it might backfire," he said.
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Democrats largely rallied around Ford, while Republicans came to Kavanaugh's defense, saying he was the victim of a character assassination.
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This grotesque and coordinated character assassination will dissuade confident and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
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"This grotesque character assassination will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country," he said.
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Much as other Republicans have increasingly done in recent days, he portrayed the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh as character assassination.
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Given Trump's penchant for character assassination, she knew what she might face and yet felt secure in telling her story.
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"Don't pretend to be having an elevated discussion of public policy when you're conducting character assassination," she wrote in Politico.
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Graham had lashed out at the Democratic members on the committee, accusing them of attempting a "wholesale character assassination" against Kavanaugh.
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Leak Vukmir, a Republican Senate candidate in Wisconsin, condemned Democrats for the accusations against Kavanaugh and called them a "character assassination."
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The pop star said she's the victim of "character assassination," but her original claims of ignorance and betrayal seem disingenuous now.
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Collins also accused Democrats of scheduling the hearing in order to engage in a "character assassination" of the acting attorney general.
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But getting back to the hard conclusions from this hearing, it produced little more than bad feelings and more character assassination.
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In the dog-eat-dog environments of these programs, cooperation and kindness are readily abandoned for back-stabbing and character assassination.
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Early local news reports said the police were considering the deaths a murder-suicide, which friends said amounted to character assassination.
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For years, the President has conducted an escalating campaign of character assassination against Mueller's team, the FBI and the larger intelligence community.
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The battle against the pipeline, waged in the name of wildlife, indigenous peoples and the planet, feels to Albertans like character assassination.
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The document accuses Oliver of a "ruthless character assassination" of Robert Murray, CEO of the nation's largest coal mining operation, Murray Energy.
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" And Swift writing in a post on Instagram that she never agreed to be called "that bitch," accusing Kardashian of "character assassination.
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In the lawsuit, the estate calls the HBO documentary a "posthumous character assassination," violating the non-disparagement terms of the 1992 contract.
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Such grotesque and obvious character assassination — if allowed to succeed — will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from service.
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"This grotesque and coordinated character assassination will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country," Kavanaugh said.
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"A character assassination based solely on innuendo was launched against me attacking my credentials and character," she said in her resignation letter.
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Mr. Ghosn said he faced a "character assassination" and "political persecution" after his arrest in late 2018 on charges of financial wrongdoing.
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"Personal attacks & character assassination yield a culture of social & political violence in which people can become radicalized & dangerous," he wrote on Twitter.
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Such grotesque and obvious character assassination -- if allowed to succeed -- will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from service.
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Kavanaugh testified after Ford finished her appearance, claiming he was the victim of "grotesque and obvious character assassination" orchestrated by Senate Democrats.
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Binary said that it was character assassination and that they were all false, that people were lying and extorting and many other things.
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The MOIS resorts to character assassination against lawmakers and reporters who hold positive views of the Iranian opposition, aiming to silence their voices.
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" An HHS spokeswoman told the Journal that "any suggestion Mr. Weaver is unqualified to run IHS is a pure act of character assassination.
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"That character assassination that Ms. Bliss put those women through was utterly shameful," prosecutor Kristen Feden said of one of Cosby's lawyers, Kathleen Bliss.
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One of its recurring columns was dedicated to the character assassination of politicians, anti-porn activists, and anyone else Flynt felt had acted hypocritical.
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But above all, the movie was a character assassination of the Superman I know and love, the one Snyder claims to have portrayed perfectly.
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Rather than attempt to answer that question, Pruitt's opponents have resorted to character assassination, pulling out one of the biggest guns in their arsenal.
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But then Prager, who has long decried profanity and character assassination in public life, is an unlikely face of conservatism in the Trump era.
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At times shouting, crying and interrupting senators, Kavanaugh argued that he is the victim of "grotesque and obvious character assassination" planned by Senate Democrats.
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" Trump's campaign quickly put out a statement denying the reports, calling the entire article "a completely false, coordinated character assassination" that "trivializes sexual assault.
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At times shouting, crying and interrupting senators, Kavanaugh argued that he is the victim of "grotesque and obvious character assassination" planned by Senate Democrats.
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Such grotesque and obvious character assassination — if allowed to succeed — will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
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Crowley said Sunday he believes criticism of party policies are welcome, but urged officials to avoid "character assassination" and focus instead on defeating Republicans.
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"Mainstream media rewrites facts and sells it as history using character assassination ... they present lies and innuendo as facts," they told the Hollywood Reporter.
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In a statement, lawyers for Mr. Cook suggested that he was the victim of "a modern-day character assassination" driven by a mob mentality.
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Such grotesque and obvious character assassination—if allowed to succeed—will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
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It&aposs an interesting time to spotlight the heroics by Jewell and the subsequent character assassination of him by the media and law enforcement.
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Kavanaugh, nominated by Republican President Donald Trump, said on Thursday he was the victim of "grotesque and obvious character assassination" orchestrated by Senate Democrats.
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"If Republicans bail out on this good man because of the smears and character assassination perpetrated by Michael Avenatti, we deserve our fate," he said.
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So I asked her to explain why, and she gave me this, which begins with what I can only describe as a vicious character assassination.
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In his testimony before the Judiciary Committee, Kavanaugh will call the allegations part of a "grotesque and obvious character assassination," according to his prepared remarks.
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No time to talk ... Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin' … we're stayin' alive … stayin' alive… The character assassination of Donald Trump is now complete.
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But all it's been since then has been one personal assault after another and a kind of character assassination having nothing to do with economics.
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This is the second time in 2018 that I've witnessed a beloved TV show participate in character assassination to the point of gaslighting its audience.
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" Swift says that the video falsely paints her as a liar, when she wasn't actually played the song, making Kim and Kanye's actions "character assassination.
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Kavanaugh has staunchly denied the accusations, calling them a "grotesque and obvious character assassination" and "a coordinated effort" to drive him out on the nomination.
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No amount of exposure to locker-room talk can inure a reader to the smuttiness of it all—it's character assassination, by his own hand.
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And still others may have remained silent, in the belief that accusing a rich and powerful man would subject them to character assassination and disbelief.
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They attacked your personal life quite a bit, which was disturbing to a lot of people, to watch that happen, sort of the character assassination.
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Brett Kavanaugh expected scrutiny in his bid to be a Supreme Court justice, although he has lamented that he is suffering "character assassination" and death threats.
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High Court Judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan dismissed the objection from defense counsel Jagjit Singh that the prosecution's characterization of Rosmah as "overbearing" amounted to character assassination.
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Roman said she has endured character assassination by rival candidates, but has managed to block that out because the public had given her a warm reception.
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There are fan artists who stopped creating because of the shit they've been put through there—everything from rape threats and death threats to character assassination.
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To this day, any mention of Stewart on the internet draws comments alternately accusing him of getting away with murder or defending him from character assassination.
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"This is a case about character assassination and a public company that weaponized its powerful pen and used it as a terrible sword," his lawsuit says.
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Every pillar of his rhetorical arsenal -- embracing nativism, demanding investigations and spreading conspiracy theories, dismissing law and order, and character assassination -- will remain front and center.
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" Trump spokesman Jason Miller in a statement to the Times said its entire article was "fiction" and a "completely false, coordinated character assassination against Mr. Trump.
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Wyclef says the Sheriffs have committed character assassination and he's now considering legal action ... not for the stop, but for what he says are the blatant lies.
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Denny's equates being falsely accused of not staying open 24 hours to "character assassination," which honestly may be just as ridiculous as Taylor's use of the term.
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Certainly character assassination by a powerful man was of great concern to her, which seems warranted in light of what Trump is saying about her this week.
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L. Chris Stewart, one of the attorneys for the family, spoke to the church about the character assassination that takes place when police shoot a black man.
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I am being called every name in the book, including a racist, and I will not stand for this mob-like character assassination of my family's name.
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"A character assassination based solely on innuendo was launched against me attacking my credentials and character," Chang wrote, according to Politico, which first obtained her resignation letter.
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I know him to be a good, upright, and honorable person, and I don't like or enjoy the character assassination I see of him and other people.
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The former New York mayor accused Clinton of launching a "character assassination" of Petraeus and tried to link her to a newspaper ad taken out by MoveOn.
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Jackson's estate has denounced Leaving Neverland, calling it "the kind of tabloid character assassination Michael Jackson endured in life, and now in death," according to the Associated Press.
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He criticized the letter, alleging that its claims were exaggerated and Jacobs himself was a "failed" employee: Ric Jacobs' letter is nothing more than character assassination for cash.
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According to the Associated Press, his estate has denounced Leaving Neverland, calling it "the kind of tabloid character assassination Michael Jackson endured in life, and now in death."
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Alternately, having watched Man of Steel's character assassination on Superman, along with Batman v Superman's literal assassination of him, it's possible that Zack Snyder just doesn't like Superman.
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In Brazil, a #DeleteNetflix campaign erupted earlier this year after former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and other political figures accused the streamer of political bias and character assassination.
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" The deluge of slut-shaming character assassination that takes over the narrative of their lives "is a shocking thing that I don't think anybody could be prepared for.
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They repeatedly accused her of yellow journalism, of Hindu-bashing and of "character assassination" against them — an unfortunate choice of words about the victim of a literal assassination.
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He portrayed the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh as character assassination, and he challenged the credibility of Ms. Ramirez even more sharply than he did Dr. Blasey last week.
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" Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh: "Such grotesque and obvious character assassination — if allowed to succeed — will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
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Republicans who cast the impeachment inquiry as yet another partisan character assassination may find it difficult to rally the same kind of unified support that helped Brett Kavanaugh.
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I don't always agree with Joe on the issues (I am more of the Sanders/Warren persuasion), but I won't tolerate character assassination in the guise of journalism.
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For seasoned observers it smacked of disinformation, which was designed to send a message to his family and friends they should keep quiet or face similar character assassination.
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"We feel part of our responsibility is to educate the rest of the world about what's going on because it's now into character assassination of candidates," Burr said Wednesday.
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As soon as the president taps whoever Anthony Kennedy&aposs replacement will be, you are going to witness the single most contentious, nasty, vicious, dirty propaganda, character assassination campaign.
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"Anita Hill was vilified when she came forward by a lot of my colleagues; character assassination," he said in an interview shortly before Ms Blasey appeared before the committee.
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And so this character assassination masquerading as a confirmation process was a free-for-all of allegations, none of which had to be supported by anything other than opinion.
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"There's been a lot of character assassination of the doctor in this case, and we're really looking forward to exonerating him," attorney Andrew Flier said of Tyndall by phone.
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"I am being called every name in the book, including a racist, and I will not stand for this mob-like character assassination of my family's name," Sandmann wrote.
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Sánchez, a lawyer who said she prosecuted sexual harassment cases before coming to Congress, warned that acting too quickly could lead to the "character assassination" of those falsely accused.
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We live in an age of widespread secrecy and selective leaks of classified information, massive doses of fake news, lavishly-financed political spin, hyper-partisan politics and character assassination.
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So they have instead trained their fire on Senate Democrats, accusing them of waging a campaign of character assassination, and on the news media — in particular The New Yorker.
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Nixon's press secretary, Ron Ziegler, accused the Post of engaging in "shoddy and shabby" journalism, calling their reporting a "blatant effort at character assassination" — comments he later apologized for.
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Yeah, I guess that's true, but character assassination and lies and total irrelevancies, they don't work in court, and there's a decision-maker at the end of the day.
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"There's been a lot of character assassination of the doctor in this case and we're really looking forward to exonerating him," attorney Andrew Flier, who represents Tyndall, said by phone.
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The combination of Trumpian politics — character assassination, smears, conspiracy theories, and smashmouth attacks on opponents — combined with his use of presidential power will be unlike anything we have seen before.
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Critics claim that, as a foreigner, Mr Ghosn has been singled out for treatment akin to a Stalinist show trial—right down to character assassination by a rabid press corps.
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It called The Times article "fiction" Wednesday night and specifically accused the newspaper of "coordinated character assassination" in an attempt to swing the race to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
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Partisan voting, partisan attacks, partisan character assassination, and partisan gridlock have all come to define the way the nation handles selecting its nominees to the highest court in the land.
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Very often the parties have used scandals, regardless of their significance, to tear down their opponents through character assassination rather than genuine debates over which party offers the best ideas.
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Pell, who declined to take questions, decried a "relentless character assassination" by the media and said he wanted to "clear my name and then return to my work in Rome".
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The means of Zersetzung include character assassination and, through the spreading of lies and fake news, the creation of a gray zone of doubt in which facts struggle to survive.
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"Bill O'Reilly has been subjected to a brutal campaign of character assassination that is unprecedented in post-McCarthyist America," Marc E. Kasowitz said in a statement Tuesday, according to CNN.
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Now, Taylor Swift has released a statement on her Instagram condemning the leaked footage as a form of character assassination, saying that she has been falsely portrayed as a liar.
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But consumers of the gadgets haven't faced the sort of character assassination that fans of Jordans did, despite the fact that the vast majority weren't committing crimes for the shoes.
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Even now, I hesitated before agreeing to The Hollywood Reporter's invitation to write this piece, knowing it could trigger another round of character assassination against my sister, my mother or me.
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She says Kim and Kanye are committing "character assassination," because they're making it seem like she lied when -- as we reported -- the truth is Kanye NEVER mentioned the "that bitch" line.
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Flanked by guest rapper Nipsey Hussle, this isn't a high-minded political evisceration of Trump's policies, but an all-out character assassination in the plain-speaking voice of the frustrated everyman.
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Thomas and Kavanaugh responded to the allegations against them with similar rhetoric — each categorically denying any wrongdoing, and describing themselves as the real victims in politically-driven attempts at character assassination.
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Adams said the play, "No Bad Women: Rape on Trial", "shows how sex workers face a character assassination in court, and that you get put on trial rather than the rapist".
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" Hutchings, who is black, said in a statement that she has been attacked by "those same individuals demanding an apology, respect and tolerance," including "racial slurs, character assassination, profanity and threats.
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By failing to call favorable witnesses or solicit affidavits from experts on sexual harassment, Biden was as responsible for Hill's "character assassination" and Thomas's place on the Supreme Court as anyone.
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It was a more public version of what too many survivors still have to go through when they report assault or harassment: the shaming, the blame, the disbelief, the character assassination.
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By and large, they have wisely taken the same high road that Mr. Ashe took two generations ago, eschewing the politics of character assassination while keeping their eyes on the prize.
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Bharara, who was fired by Trump, warned that the White House would subject Mueller to "obscene & horses--- character assassination" if he was fired and questioned what steps would be taken next.
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Before James Gunn brought into the world his entertaining vision of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy — and was unceremoniously dumped by Disney following a bad faith character assassination — he made horror movies.
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He undermined the wisdom of that decision with a press conference last summer that violated another Justice Department imperative: Never engage in character assassination of someone who has never committed a crime.
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Last weekend's victory over Leslie Smith wasn't just a fight, it was the culmination of a long slog through professional disappointment, promotional sleight-of-hand, unfair fights, even slander and character assassination.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has accused Netflix of political bias and character assassination in its series based on the massive Car Wash corruption investigation that rocked Brazil's political establishment.
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Washington (CNN)Former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara said Republicans are attempting a "character assassination" of former special counsel Robert Mueller at his Wednesday congressional hearings.
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" Moore was introduced by his wife, who portrayed her husband as the victim of a coordinated character assassination attempt by the media and said, "our sails are torn, but our anchor holds.
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And while some conservatives have been hesitant to support the president's tactics due to their respect for these institutions, the left's character assassination of Brett Kavanaugh may have been the final straw.
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" Chang also accuses the State Department of failing to support her after the NBC report, writing, "A character assassination based solely on innuendo was launched against me attacking my credentials and character.
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Another argument LionMaker makes in the video is a character assassination of Keemstar (real name Dan Keem), the frontman of the Drama Alert team who initially brought LionMaker's actions to wider attention.
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Instead of welcoming debate on the merit of their policy ideas, these operatives would rather censor opposing views, distort our stances on the issues and seek conformity through coercion and character assassination.
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" Earlier Monday, Judge Kavanaugh sent a letter to the top Democrat and the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee in which he denounced what he called a "grotesque and obvious character assassination.
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"Senator Jon Tester engaged in character assassination against a decorated rear admiral in the United States Navy, and he didn't have a shred of evidence to back it up," Mr. Shah said.
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Can he work his way through disinformation campaigns and deep fake videos, character assassination from the President's Twitter feed, and potential investigations from the Justice Department and still come out on top?
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"For the New York Times to launch a completely false, coordinated character assassination against Mr. Trump on a topic like this is dangerous," Miller said in a statement, which reacted to both claims.
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"Today, the Mandels defied Judge Beaudet's previous order to strike their 'allegations' that are nothing more than another attempted character assassination of Mr. Depp," Depp's lawyer Adam Waldman told PEOPLE of the filing.
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Whereas an appearance at Christie's was a surefire way to move up the social ladder, a coke-fueled make-out session would almost certainly lead to a ruthless character assassination on Gossip Girl.
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During a book event in Alabama, Schultz expressed surprise at the "character assassination" he says he's faced from Democrats since expressing interest in a third-party run, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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The Democrats are burning a very bedrock of our democracy, and that is the presumption of innocence in this, and this character assassination is the new low in my time here in Washington.
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The bitterness began when liberal senators attempted to savage the reputation of Judge Robert Bork in a campaign of character assassination led by Mr. Biden, who then was chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
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"The left-wing media is engaged in a Bolshevik hunt, brainwashing and character assassination against me and my family," he said in Hebrew, before going on to invoke one of Trump's favorite phrases.
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Zuma struck a defiant tone at the public inquiry, saying he was the victim of a "character assassination" by enemies who had tried to get rid of him for more than 20 years.
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Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has ramped up his campaign of character assassination against George Soros, unveiling a new bundle of tough anti-immigration laws dedicated to "stopping" the liberal billionaire.
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Representative Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, who was one of the "managers" of President Bill Clinton's impeachment, criticized Democrats for lending support to a "character assassination squad running around this town" sullying innocent people.
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What the Times published was always an exercise in narrative creation meant to bolster an ongoing character assassination against a Supreme Court justice that the left believes is a threat to abortion rights.
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The panel's ranking Republican, Representative Doug Collins of Georgia, in turn accused Mr. Nadler of engaging in "character assassination" and "political theater" and of wasting time by obtaining authority to subpoena Mr. Whitaker.
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Sanders later promised a campaign that would be "driven by issues and serious debate, not political gossip, not reckless personal attacks or character assassination," as he put it in his May 2015 launch speech.
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"We still see all the same victim-blaming and character-assassination that Gentileschi faced," says Joy McCullough, author of "Blood Water Paint", a book about the artist for teenagers that was published last year.
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"Given the inclusion of Perkins Coie in the mix, the likelihood increases that money has already changed hands to purchase a drive-by character assassination of beloved conservative Republican Congressman Jim Jordan," he said.
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But what does add up is that Democrats are doubling down on a strategy of character assassination, seeking to destroy the life of a distinguished public servant for the sake of appeasing their base.
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But the coroner in Lancashire, England, condemned the news media after her death and singled out The Daily Mail for what he called its "character assassination" and "ridicule and humiliation" of a private citizen.
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Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah described criticism of Mr. Farr as "character assassination" and "what we've come to expect" from liberals on judicial nominations, although the most effective critiques came from Mr. Scott.
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Mr. Cain categorically denied the affair, Ms. Bialek's account, the hotel solicitation and the harassment claims, dismissing them as a campaign of "character assassination" devised to force him to drop out of the race.
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First, she had the good fortune of surviving 23 stabs to her upper body, then she had the courage to press charges, and then she grew a skin thick enough to withstand character assassination.
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He will smell any ounce of anxiety or distress over how to respond to his lies, his attempts at character assassination, his dishonest attacks on Biden's family, and he will go for the jugular.
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But this year, the nonstop outrages of the Republican presidential nominee and the never-ending character assassination of Hillary Clinton have produced a press paralysis unlike anything I have witnessed in 14 previous presidential contests.
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From his seat in the Senate, McCarthy made wild accusations and used character assassination against respected Americans, including World War II hero General George C. Marshall, and institutions, such as the Army and State Department.
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The disgraceful character assassination of Moore proved what Trump knew all along, which is that the liberal political establishment will do everything in its power to protect the Federal Reserve from the genuine growth hawks.
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I was also safe because my employer, The New Republic, is secure in its identity as a journal of opinion and has owners who can recognize a right-wing character assassination when they see it.
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Those who could challenge Mr. Trump — Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio — are not only to the right of Mr. Trump on many issues, but are embracing the same game of exclusion, bigotry and character assassination.
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Based on these denials, many supporters of Mr. Kavanaugh view Ms. Ford's claims, raised after the conclusion of his confirmation hearings and just days before the Senate Judiciary Committee vote, as eleventh-hour character assassination.
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Republicans said they were offended by the Democratic tactics and saw it is a continuation of Democratic character assassination of Supreme Court candidates nominated by Republican presidents, beginning with Judge Robert H. Bork in 1987.
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" Biden said he thinks an FBI investigation into the allegations should be conducted and he urged the committee to learn from the lessons of the Thomas hearings, stressing they should not engage in "character assassination.
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If we find that Trump is ordering investigations of people, is leaking stuff to engage in character assassination, is actually hiring people to break the bones of people who are against him, then he's Nixon.
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They lie about them, they yell at them, they engage in character assassination, they talk about their appearance, and all sorts of other things that have nothing to do with the merits of the argument.
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To me, it seemed that their approach to politics was to identify their class enemies (usually whoever was friendlier to commercial activity) and engage in character assassination, accusing whoever argued against them as being compromised sellouts.
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" Swift slammed Kimye in an Instagram post responding to the video, writing, "Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.
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This piece not only fails to play it down the middle; it plays into the very worst of those impulses by simply lumping Johnson's story, with minimal context, into something that approaches character assassination against Naughright.
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Republicans recognize that confirmation of a nominee accused of sexual assault would be a political liability, but hope to energize their conservative base by focusing on what they characterize as a left-wing character assassination campaign.
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Months of the Republicans' constant drumbeat of blatant falsehoods and character assassination against Biden and his son Hunter throughout the impeachment trial, without an aggressive strategy from Biden to get ahead of it, has apparently worked.
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As Kushner continues to make government accountable to the people, the Washington swamp -- including the media and DC bureaucracy -- has retaliated with a Kushner takedown effort, hiding or downplaying his accomplishments while engaging in character assassination.
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Mina Chang, deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, announced her decision on Monday, blaming a "character assassination based solely on innuendo" and a toxic State Department culture in her resignation letter.
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Monday lashed out at a report detailing a second allegation of sexual assault against him, calling the accusation "grotesque and obvious character assassination" and vowing not to withdraw his nomination.
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This grotesque character assassination will dissuade confident and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country, and as we all know, in the political system of the early 20063s, what goes around comes around.
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This grotesque, character assassination will dissuade confident and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country and as we all know in the political system of the early 2000s, what goes around comes around.
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Engaging in what the jury may find to be character assassination of Gates will not necessarily make Manafort more sympathetic and, importantly, the defense must remember the jury does not have to like Gates to believe him.
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The delivery of accurate news able to shine the disinfecting sunlight of real facts and relevant information on vital political issues was a first line of defense against anti-democratic demagoguery, disinformation, character assassination, and outright lies.
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And who cares if this is pure character assassination of Steve Rogers, a good-hearted soldier, along the lines of the faulty idea that "good" characters have to be boring and thus must be made gritty and dark?
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Richter told the Melbourne Magistrates' Court that Milligan had used "character assassination" in her book, associating Pell's name with other priests who had been accused of abuse and accepting some allegations made by some accusers at face value.
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I don't think Sanders is unelectable, but when you look at polling, remember that Hillary Clinton's numbers reflect her standing after more than two decades of constant character assassination, whereas Republicans haven't even begun to go after him.
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With that said, and even though Jordan appears to operate on a different set of standards than he wishes himself to be judged, we should not engage in the type of character assassination that has made him famous.
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Nevada Senate GOP candidate Danny Tarkanian on Tuesday lamented the "character assassination campaign" against Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore, who faces a spate of allegations that he had inappropriate sexual contact with teenage girls several decades ago.
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Personal attacks & character assassination yield a culture of social & political violence in which people can become radicalized & dangerous The condemnations marked a reversal of fortunes in a week that had seen Trump on the offensive against the media.
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On Friday, Mr. Sullivan and others on the security team disputed Mr. Jacobs's letter, saying it was "nothing more than character assassination for cash," according to a statement from Matthew Umhofer, an attorney for four Uber security employees.
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And now, the left is launching an all-out campaign to scream and to yell and besmirched and lie and smear and slander and use character assassination against Judge Kavanaugh, and by the way, his kids will be watching.
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The speed at which Amato's tweet spread through the Internet without any real fact-checking about his name nor origins hints at how easy it is to commit character assassination – against Duma especially, but Russian fashion influencers in general.
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Context: In response to the backlash last week, Moore said he had endured "one personal assault after another and a kind of character assassination having nothing to do with economics" ever since Trump contacted him about the Fed job.
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"This entire article is fiction, and for The New York Times to launch a completely false, coordinated character assassination against Mr. Trump on a topic like this is dangerous," Trump Senior Communications Advisor Jason Miller said in a statement.
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He apologized and said they were "humor columns," but added he had endured "one personal assault after another and a kind of character assassination having nothing to do with economics" ever since Trump contacted him about the Fed job.
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President Barack Obama, the first African-American commander in chief, endured a character assassination over claims he was not even born in the United States -- conducted by Trump himself -- and only rarely displayed his public disgust for his accuser.
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"This entire article is fiction, and for the New York Times to launch a completely false, coordinated character assassination against Mr. Trump on a topic like this is dangerous," Trump's senior communications adviser Jason Miller said in a statement.
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This is a continuation of the campaign of false information, character assassination, victim blaming and the shaming that the Jackson corporate lawyers heap on any child or adult who speaks the truth about Mr. Jackson's sexual behavior with children.
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Young women disliked Clinton, Bordo argues, because they "weren't around" for the GOP's character assassination of her in the '90s, and did not realize how unfairly she had often been portrayed—or understand the sexism she had to overcome.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president Jacob Zuma told a corruption inquiry on Monday that there was a conspiracy against him and that his enemies had subjected him to a "character assassination" because they wanted him out of power.
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If this were not the case, we would not see the manic partisanship we see today, the shrill hate-filled rhetoric that has become commonplace, the attempts at character assassination, the showtime public hearings, the lies and the distortions.
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As a reporter, she witnessed the brutal character assassination of a rape victim in court (which she recounts in a poem called "if it please the court") and then, one night, awoke to the sound of a girl crying.
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" N.Y. Times Quote of the Day ... Kavanaugh, in a letter to the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, in which he denounced "grotesque and obvious character assassination": "I will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process.
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They complain that in the aftermath of the shooting, authorities used character assassination tactics to discredit Clark — police released text messages and phone records showing he was despondent after a domestic violence dispute with the mother of his two children.
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"What's going on here, you know, is another dimension of a character assassination that's been going on for two years now, and they have another front that they're opening up," Bharara, a CNN senior legal analyst, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
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It's tough, sometimes, to know that you're a teeny, tiny cog in a massive corporate entertainment empire, that no matter how much you tweet about Black Widow's character assassination you know you're still buying tickets for Avengers 22.993 in 2019.
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But it's worth asking the question of what toll unleashing a full-scale character assassination -- "there's a special place in hell" is pretty strong stuff -- on Canada's head of government means for how the US is perceived in the world.
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Hillary Clinton was subject to the most well-financed and international campaign of personal destruction, character assassination and defamation in the history of American politics and democratic nations, but she still won nearly 3 million more popular votes than Trump.
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JOHANNESBURG, July 15 (Reuters) - Former South African president Jacob Zuma told a corruption inquiry on Monday that there was a conspiracy against him and that his enemies had subjected him to a "character assassination" because they wanted him out of power.
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He charged that Democrats were conducting a "grotesque and coordinated character assassination" because of their anger about President Trump's ascent and their desire for revenge after his own seamy work helping Ken Starr in his pervy pursuit of Bill Clinton.
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One of the most astonishing recent examples of the House Judiciary Committee's character assassination involves Republican leaks to conservative news outlets of the closed-door testimony of James Baker, who was the F.B.I.'s general counsel from 2014 to December 2017.
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Washington (CNN)Brett Kavanaugh launched a bold effort to save his nomination to the US Supreme Court on Monday, lashing out at "smears" and a "grotesque and obvious character assassination" following the emergence of a new allegation of inappropriate sexual behavior.
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Earlier, there was a taste of the character assassination to come when Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr. warmed up the crowd by accusing Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden of "groping" and mocked the cancer moonshot of a man whose son died of the disease.
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It's the question that seems to be on everyone's mind after Swift posted a note early Monday morning accusing Kim Kardashian of "character assassination" after Kardashian revealed a video of her husband Kanye West and Swift discussing that "Famous" line about her.
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While plenty of mystery haunts the case, the documentary makes clear that the pertinent legal questions about guilt or reasonable doubt were successfully reframed by the prosecution as questions about whether Routier was a "good" or "bad" mother, through a sexist character assassination.
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For Democrats who are used to Rove unleashing demagogic attacks on their candidates, notably the character assassination of John Kerry in 2004, it was pure schadenfreude to see Bush's brain get his comeuppance from the very conspiratorial forces the GOP has unleashed.
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On the campaign trail in Utah, Romney has noted that he largely agrees with Trump on policy, but does not condone Trump's harsh tone on immigration, his rapid-fire insults over Twitter, or his frequent attempts at character assassination as a governing style.
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Mr. Collins, the ranking Republican on the committee, angrily attacked Democrats in his opening statement, saying that they were interested in carrying out a "character assassination" of Mr. Whitaker and damaging Mr. Trump, not carrying out oversight of the Department of Justice.
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"This has all the indicators of an 11th hour character assassination and a desperate attempt to delay and defeat the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh," said Carrie Severino, chief counsel of the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative activist group that supports Trump's judicial picks.
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There are a lot of Democrats who see her as someone who has been subjected to character assassination, to vicious attacks, on a scale few women and no men in politics have ever encountered — yet she's still standing, still capable of remarkable grace under fire.
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Trump's senior communications adviser Jason Miller released a statement in response to the Times article: This entire article is fiction, and for the New York Times to launch a completely false, coordinated character assassination against Mr. Trump on a topic like this is dangerous.
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The Jackson estate has called the film "the kind of tabloid character assassination Michael Jackson endured in life, and now in death," and are suing the premium cable channel, claiming it will "constitute a breach of a non-disparagement clause" from a previous contract.
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Moore said Sunday on ABC News's "This Week" that he was "embarrassed" by some of the things he had written but called himself the victim of a "smear campaign" and "character assassination" by people who do not want to see him on the Fed board.
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Unfortunately, as with nearly everything that is tangentially related to the Trump Presidency, Wilkie's nomination has devolved from legitimate questions about his qualifications to blatant character assassination on the part of political rivals who vehemently oppose any action taken by the man who nominated him.
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Everywhere, the political establishment treated these left-of-center, progressive internationalists with a mixture of contempt, ridicule, character assassination and brute force — the worst case, of course, being the treatment of the Greek government in which I served during the first half of 2015.
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I will never understand how some of my colleagues, in many ways good people, could ignore or deny the President's unrelenting attack on a free press, his vicious character assassination of anyone who disagreed with him, and his demonstrably very distant relationship with the truth.
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" She lambasted colleagues on both sides of the aisle for "irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism," saying the Senate itself, "as the greatest deliberative body in the world" had become "debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination.
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"Instead of supporting President Trump's judicial nominee, [Hawley] is spreading the very same kind of rumors and innuendo and character assassination that Republican leaders fought during Justice Kavanaugh's confirmation," Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network said in a statement.
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Sessions and his backers defended his record as the victim of character assassination, saying that the events of his unsuccessful 1986 confirmation hearing to be a federal judge were being unfairly misconstrued 30 years later to malign a man with a record of fighting for civil rights.
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The issue was a focal point throughout his hearings, after he failed to be confirmed for a federal judgeship in 1986 over concerns about racially-charged comments he had made and prosecutorial decisions he made -- though Republicans repeatedly defended him as a victim of character assassination.
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Players fought to control the narrative on every point, whether it was in-universe ( Can a werewolf be reversed back into a man?) or in real life ( Is this cabal leader an abuser who ran a prolonged campaign of character assassination to ruin a player's life?).
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In the next few weeks we will see if she runs with this and can avoid getting sucked into a back and forth of character assassination that will become more tempting as Trump and his surrogates unload on her marital history, her emails and the Clinton Foundation.
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Unfortunately, however, many who are raised beneath the soiled sheets of unbridled ambition, or those who emerge from the swamps of generational privilege, find it far easier to engage in dirty politics and character assassination than they do to display any real talent of their own.
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The actor doesn't have much more to add beyond what the letter says clear as day -- that the 'Guardians' "fully support" James -- but he does elaborate on what he thinks is happening to his big bro ... a full-on character assassination that he chalks up to mere lies.
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When Senator Joseph McCarthy died in 1957, he was one of the biggest failures in American political life, an alcoholic wreck censured by his fellow legislators and treated as a pariah by most in his own party, with his very name a byword for demagoguery and character assassination.
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The separation of families at the border, the targeted shooting of Mexicans in El Paso, the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding a roadblock on political asylum for Central Americans — these are just a few incidents of character assassination that are collectively obscuring the essential fact of Latino humanity.
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A hearing starring Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who presided over the start of the Russia probe, degenerated Thursday into a theatrical display of sanctimony, mock outrage, all-out partisan bickering and character assassination as grandstanding members on both sides of the aisle played to the TV cameras.
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Since his work on behalf of President Richard Nixon, when Stone really pioneered the art of "dirty trick politics," which used disinformation and character assassination as the primary means toward victory, he has been willing to sell his talents to whichever candidate was willing to listen to him.
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But if senior intelligence officials can't concern themselves with the national security implications of foreign meddling in an election, or of the sundry conflicts corrupt campaign officials (like, say, Trump's) might bring into government, without subjecting themselves to character assassination, it creates horrifying incentives for both potential meddlers and their beneficiaries.
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh calls the allegations of sexual misconduct against him by now three women a "grotesque and obvious character assassination" in his official written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, ahead of a Thursday hearing at which he and one of his accusers are scheduled to testify publicly.
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"I know this will disappoint a lot of ppl but I signed up to do real work, not be in the middle of a giant character assassination: if I can't do the work properly there's no point, & I have a lot of other things to do w/ my life," he added.
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SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS: Democrats, their corrupt media friends, they will do and say anything to malign the president&aposs nomination, block them from fulfilling his constitutional duty, get ready for the lies, the propaganda, the misinformation, the fear-mongering, the character assassination, and yes, the Borking of whoever it ends up being.
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" Biden, the Democrats' onetime frontrunner, still has a shot, argued Tara Setmayer, but time is running out: "Months of the Republicans' constant drumbeat of blatant falsehoods and character assassination against Biden and his son Hunter throughout the impeachment trial, without an aggressive strategy from Biden to get ahead of it, has apparently worked.
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Backpacks full of money, stadiums full of gawkers, attacks on TV executives, brutal mockery, pro-wrestling melodrama, violence against microphones, racially tinged taunts, custom-made scatological suits, flag theft, character assassination, hip-hop performances, rabble, rabble-rousing, accusations of illiteracy, accusations of cowardice, endless bragging, hyperventilating promoters, Drake, and the con to end all cons.
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" Severino, who serves as the chief counsel and policy director for the group, has also taken aim at Hawley, comparing him to McCaskill and saying in a statement that instead of supporting Rao, "he is spreading the very same kind of rumors and innuendo and character assassination that Republican leaders fought during Justice Kavanaugh's confirmation.
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Here are some of the lawsuit's best moments: "Defendants continued their ruthless character assassination and attack on Plaintiffs' business reputations by describing Mr. Murray as someone who 'looks like a geriatric Dr. Evil' and arranging for a staff member to dress up in a squirrel costume and deliver the message 'Eat Shit, Bob!" to Mr. Murray.
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This is precisely the type of reckless character assassination that allows a public figure like Sorvino to make vicious allegations that are impossible to refute because she does not have the courage or integrity to name the women so that we can at least try and expose the falsity of these allegations that Mr Weinstein denies.
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And no conflicts either Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is also thinking along these lines, suggesting that high-level Department of Justice officials be prepared to resign if Mueller is fired: If Mueller is fired, how much obscene & horseshit character assassination will Trump & allies level against this honored military vet?
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Rather than quietly trying to settle — as another New York developer had done a couple of years earlier — he turned the lawsuit into a protracted battle, complete with angry denials, character assassination, charges that the government was trying to force him to rent to "welfare recipients" and a $21978 million countersuit accusing the Justice Department of defamation.
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Here, the story includes another caveat: In an auto-play video at the top of the post, Klemko explains his reporting and divulges that he spoke at length with Naughright off the record, hoping to get a response from her about the new account and the several quotes contained within the piece that border on character assassination.
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Tom CottonThomas (Tom) Bryant CottonCongress must address gender gap in nominations to military service academies GOP senators press Google on reports it developed a smart speaker with Huawei Sunday shows - Mass shootings grab the spotlight MORE (Ark.) is accusing Democrats of a "character assassination" on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as multiple allegations of sexual misconduct emerge against him.
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"This is a political hit job that the Shuster campaign pulled directly from the Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's playbook on character assassination, just before the election," said Halvorson's spokesman Joe Sterns.
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During the infamous COINTELPRO era revealed by those committees' investigations, the FBI actively worked to suppress the movement for equal rights for women, directed violence toward the civil rights movement, placed provocateurs in the movement to end the war in Vietnam, and conducted a character assassination campaign targeting a world-historic leader we now appropriately honor as a national hero.
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Though "Robin," at upwards of 500 pages, is exhaustively reported and doesn't shy away from the abundant messiness in Williams's personal life, it never crosses the threshold from critical assessment into bonkers character assassination, as Albert Goldman's similarly epic "The Lives of John Lennon" did, nor does it marinate in sordidness, as "Wired," Bob Woodward's hit-and-run narcobiography of John Belushi, did.
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Moreover, in the past two years, the American people have witnessed FBI corruption, the never-ending Mueller investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to win the 212 election, the character assassination of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the chaos and destruction fomented by Antifa activists, and the increasingly un-American behavior of leading Democrats at every level of government.
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"This has all the indicators of an 11th hour character assassination and a desperate attempt to delay and defeat the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh, who has a sterling reputation in his community, his profession, his church and among hundreds of friends, colleagues and co-workers," Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director at Judicial Crisis Network said in a statement.
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But the producers were truly smiling down upon us this week, because not only did Monday's episode feature more Copper screen time than most contestants on night one, but it also featured our new favorite Bachelor super-fans, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, and, of course, the most glorious character assassination DeMario-got-caught-red-handed-with-his-pants-down moment of all time.
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If history tells us anything and everybody in the media is trying to scare you already, Democrats, their corrupt media friends, they will do and say anything to malign the president&aposs nomination, block them from fulfilling his constitutional duty, get ready for the lies, the propaganda, the misinformation, the fear-mongering, the character assassination, and yes, the Borking of whoever it ends up being.
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The aggressive response was led by Kavanaugh himself, who said he was the victim of a "character assassination" and "smears," an argument echoed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.).
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It remains instructive to contrast the reaction to recent American coverage – where, in the UK, there was blanket revulsion at this cheap tabloid targeting of the Dunblane shooting survivors, their counterparts from Parkland have had to contend with the jibes of disgraced comedian Louis CK, Republican campaign teams and thinly veiled attempts at character assassination by the more demented parts of the country's right-wing media.
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" On the Republican side, the biggest super PAC of the cycle, the Congressional Leadership Fund, began airing radio ads last week deploring "the liberal mob, pushing their extreme views, trying to hijack our democracy and steal seats on the United States Supreme Court" through "despicable lies, disgusting character assassination, a new low, even for them, falsely accusing an innocent person of being a sexual predator.
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"If this is the new normal, woe be to the Senate and any nominee that could be subjected to the unacceptable character assassination that we've seen directed at this nominee," said Senate Republican Whip John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape MORE (Texas).
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The second, on Sunday night, lost more than one-fifth of that number — about 18 million — who decided they didn't need to watch another moment of character assassination by each of the candidates, who aren't even broaching things like how to fix our education system, immigration policy, or the country's exploding heroin epidemic in the U.S. — you know, the kind of issues everyday Americans might be a little interested in.
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" Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, the conservative group pressing for Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation, condemned Ms. Feinstein's action: "This has all the indicators of an 11th hour character assassination and a desperate attempt to delay and defeat the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh, who has a sterling reputation in his community, his profession, his church and among hundreds of friends, colleagues and co-workers.
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The crude heuristic that transformed Steve Bannon in the eyes of the media from the sewer-dwelling publisher of Breitbart's "black crime" vertical into a master political tactician goes something like this: Donald Trump was on pace to lose the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton before Bannon joined the campaign last August, and then Trump went on to beat her—using Bannonite race-baiting and character assassination tactics—with a popular vote margin of -3 million.
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But I know this: that Gray was stopped under dubious circumstances and suffered a severe spinal injury-- which would ultimately kill him -- while in the sole custody of police, that police defenders were quick to condemn the dead man through character assassination, that those professing to call for more law and order condemned Mosby for even trying to bring justice, that those in the audience in Cleveland at the Republican National Convention last week cheered when a speaker bragged that another officer would go free.
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He was Joe McCarthy's right-hand man and chief inquisitor during the Army-McCarthy hearings, which are famous or rather infamous now as an example of prosecution by innuendo and character assassination and one of the most disgraceful periods in American life, and Roy was the leader of that, and he was disgraced, as McCarthy was disgraced, and retreated to New York City where he was very well-connected in politics and high society, and when Donald became a young man, it was Roy Cohn that he turned to as a mentor.
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"Kavanaugh 2.0" is how the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Fox News host Tucker Carlson have branded the investigation into Mr. Trump, initiated last month by Speaker Nancy Pelosi after it surfaced that Mr. Trump had made a private call to the president of Ukraine and asked him to look into a political rival, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The comparison to Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh's heated confirmation last fall, which was nearly derailed by allegations of sexual assault, may prove useful for Republicans who want to cast the impeachment inquiry as yet another partisan character assassination — and one that will similarly fail.
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And whether it's him, or James ClapperJames Robert ClapperEx-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity Former DHS, intelligence leaders launch group to protect presidential campaigns from foreign interference Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief MORE, the former director of national intelligence (DNI), or John BrennanJohn Owen BrennanWebb: Questions for Robert Mueller A brief timeline of Trump's clashes with intelligence director Dan Coats Trump critic Brennan praises his Iran decision: I 'applaud' him MORE, former CIA director, or Phil Mudd, former top official at the CIA and FBI, and you hear them screaming on cable news or writing vitriolic, provocative tweets aimed at the president in trying to out-Trump Trump in the character assassination department, you suddenly realize that they're unknowingly making the argument against themselves as being anything but apolitical.
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