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"impugn" Definitions
  1. impugn something to express doubts about whether something is right, honest, etc.

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"  "They tried to impugn his character, but were unable to impugn the documents he provided.
They tried to impugn his character, but were unable to impugn the documents he provided.
We don't intend to impugn the character of our colleagues.
In doing so, he made himself extremely hard to impugn.
It's hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent.
He was willing to impugn people with little more than anonymous quotes.
And that's not in any way to impugn Tom, who I love.
I do not doubt her, and I do not impugn her eminence.
And for the media to impugn her motives and her character is ridiculous.
White's comments, on the world stage, directly impugn the character of Ms. Zawaideh.
That's a rule preventing Senators from using the floor to impugn their colleagues.
It was ridiculous and even slanderous to impugn the ethics of SPI staff.
" Did he ever: "It's hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent.
Statements made during a campaign do not "impugn the motive of subsequent government action".
I'm disappointed the Democrats are distorting the facts to impugn Attorney General Sessions's character.
No one can impugn Sanders's leftist credentials or accuse him of not having progressive ideas.
"You cannot impugn the character of the witness by stating that he intentionally murders children," Rep.
They showed efforts to impugn Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in his effort to challenge Mrs.
Lincoln's personal interests should not impugn his public motive: win the war and secure the nation.
Because make no mistake: calling the claims "unsubstantiated" is a subtle way to impugn a reputation.
Mr. Cohen's team has suggested that it is prepared for Republican efforts to impugn his credibility.
That's because the same publications that once praised her now impugn Ivanka, her father and her family.
" Dr. Collins hastened to add that he was not trying to "impugn the sanity of Mr. Joyce.
It's especially confounding given the buried acknowledgement that none of it was meant to impugn her claims.
" New York magazine went further, using the blunt instrument of obviousness to impugn the Republican Party: "G.
One after another they praised Yovanovitch's service, leaving Trump isolated in his willingness to impugn her integrity.
Second, they impugn the target's character, for example by claiming that she is a "racist" or "white supremacist".
"We must repudiate all efforts to malign, isolate and impugn Israel and the Jewish people," she said. Mrs.
However, to declare the outcomes of 2013 and 2017 equivalent to 2007 is to impugn those same institutions.
He said the Nunes memo "does not impugn the Mueller investigation or the deputy attorney general," Rod Rosenstein.
" When the reporter tried to explain he did not mean to impugn Trump personally, he was told, "quiet, quiet.
One judge called it a "doomsday provision," not something you assert to impugn the legitimacy of your political rival.
Unable to impugn their masculinity, Trump usually goes for attacks on their appearance or implying that they're mentally ill.
None of this is to impugn Midge or this strawberry ice cream-flavored white fantasy concoction of a show.
In today's rhetorical climate, it's not just a handful of entitled engineers who feel empowered to impugn certain groups.
But the critic didn't impugn the film itself, and in fact seemed to think it was pretty well made.
Not to impugn the fine acting of Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, but their chemistry isn't exactly water and francium.
I don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong, but … it's hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent.
King has a long history of making racist remarks that often impugn immigrants and raise the specter of white nationalism.
But expelling the Rohingya also helps the military impugn Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi in the eyes of Myanmar's people.
"I had heard both sides impugn the integrity of one another and also cast aspersions on the Senate," Collins said.
Furthermore, if Republican senators attempt to impugn her character, they will disgrace themselves in the eyes of the American people.
When we stereotype, abuse, impugn motives and lie about each other, we've ripped the social fabric and encouraged more ugliness.
You just point to the fact that the tech exists and you can impugn the integrity of the stuff that's real.
" He said, "The question going forward is does Bernie choose to basically impugn Biden's character as a means of pulling ahead.
"It's early in the game to begin to impugn the prosecutors," said Philip Allen Lacovara, a Watergate prosecutor and a Republican.
Prosecutors, however, said they should be allowed to bring up the deal to rebut the defense's attempts to impugn Constand's motives.
Claire McCaskill of Missouri was incensed that Trump seemed to impugn the integrity of elected officials who preceded him in public service.
Vindman's treatment underscores this president's willingness to impugn the sacrifice of American soldiers when he thinks it is to his political advantage.
"This clearly appears to be an effort to slow the investigation and impugn an investigation into the president's own campaign," Warner said.
"For the gentleman to suggest those aren't my questions and to impugn the motive of any member is totally inappropriate," he said.
At that point, no federal prosecutor has the right to impugn an uncharged investigative target's reputation through anonymous leaks or literary reports.
It may be risky to impugn the worthiness of old age, but I'll take my cane to anyone who tries to stop me.
"We have rules around here, and the rules are very clear that you don't impugn another Senator," Risch said at the time. 23.
In recent weeks, they have gone to remarkable lengths to impugn the integrity of the justices and thus the legitimacy of the court.
What if Clinton praised the good intentions of those who disagree with her and vowed to listen to them, rather than impugn them?
This bedrock is imperiled by attempts to impugn the integrity of those who are committed to protecting our democracy -- officials like Robert Mueller.
The dissenters used that precedent to try to impugn the majority's reasoning in the present case, indeed the very morality of its decision.
Critics have blasted the Facebook chief for saying it is "hard to impugn intent" when it comes to those who deny the Holocaust.
Candice E. Jackson, who represented one of the women who attended a news conference before a presidential debate in October to impugn Mrs.
I find it insulting that you'd come before this Committee, which has been charged with uncovering the truth, only to impugn that very mission.
He said it was "hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent," which led him to believe their content should not be removed.
But it seems to have been lost on Mr. Trump in his zeal to impugn based upon race rather than uplift based upon promise.
When I see Trump justify torture; impugn judges; advocate civil unrest, I don't see the ideal democracy that promised to keep the flame alive.
Instead, the goal was to turn Americans against each other, stoke the fires of searing political issues and impugn the credibility of U.S. democracy.
Trump's lead attorney Rudy Giuliani has advised the President that firing Sessions would complicate their efforts to impugn the special counsel, according to aides.
The Iranian judicial authorities have previously sought to impugn reporting by Amnesty International about Iran's use of the death penalty as biased and lacking credibility.
" If he signs the border security legislation conservative provocateur Ann Coulter will impugn his courage for agreeing to what she calls a "Yellow New Deal.
Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said he thought it was against House rules to impugn the character of a witness.
This back-and-forth ultimately culminated in one of Musk's Twitter rants, with a slew of insults slung at any who dare impugn his work.
"Allegations in memo are serious, but must not be used to impugn the FBI or discredit the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller," tweeted Rep.
Added to that, McCabe is a potential witness in any obstruction case against Trump, adding to suspicions the President was trying to impugn his character.
Zuckerberg said that Facebook could not understand the intent of those publishers and would not try: It's hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent.
The gun lobby did more than just impugn the mainstream media; it created its own new media channels and other alternative "news" sites as a corrective.
"Both gentlemen are willing and ready to face malicious allegations intended to impugn their character and credibility," presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said in a statement Thursday.
It's a good rule: Mental illness carries a stigma and it's irresponsible, as well as ethically wrong, to impugn someone's reputation based on an uninformed opinion.
So colleagues and commanders alike found it audacious for President Trump to label Mr. McRaven a "Hillary Clinton fan" — and impugn his lifelong nonpartisan political position.
This is another tell, since the ordinary practice of this White House is to impugn the motives of anyone suspected of enjoying the favor of Democrats.
This is the case even at a time when serious off-the-court concerns threaten to impugn one of the better reputations in major college basketball.
While Cohen is likely to paint a grim picture of Trump, Republicans will seek to impugn his credibility, given that he is already a proven liar.
" In a statement later, Mr. Fallon said that "Bernie Sanders, like Karl Rove before him, is trying to impugn Hillary Clinton's integrity without any basis in fact.
Feinstein, in the election fight of her life, has, with her statement after the confirmation, decided to impugn the Supreme Court rather than appeal to national unity.
In directing the Justice Department to review its agreements with law enforcement agencies, Mr. Sessions said "the individual misdeeds of bad actors should not impugn" entire departments.
And Collins is joined by other staunch Trump defenders who have been relentless in seizing opportunities to impugn the impeachment process while championing the president, like Rep.
Arthur: I am shocked that you would impugn the motives of voters for candidates like Vermin Supreme, the guy famous for wearing a rubber boot on his head.
Since Comey's subsequent firing, the White House has engaged in a full-on attack of the former lawman, an attempt to impugn his character and undermine his reputation.
They also sought to impugn the credibility of the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint triggered the impeachment inquiry, raising the possibility he or she was motivated by political bias.
Lucas has repeatedly referred to HSUS and animal rights activists as "terrorists" intent on "passing laws to ruin America" that deliberately impugn the small-time farmer's way of life.
"Russia attempted to undermine the fundamentals of our democracy, impugn the reliability of the 2016 election, and sow the seeds of discord among Americans," Gowdy said in a statement.
" Sessions wrote on Monday that "the misdeeds of individual bad actors should not impugn the legitimate and honorable work that law enforcement agencies perform in keeping American communities safe.
Christie, one of President Donald Trump's earliest and most prominent GOP allies, said he had not seen anything from the White House "trying to impugn" Mueller in recent weeks.
Dr. Ludwig emphasized that the results need to be replicated by other investigators and he stressed that the findings do not impugn whole fruits, beans and other unprocessed carbohydrates.
Donald Trump's candidacy is an unalloyed expression of male id: Yield to me, worship me, never question the expanse of my reach, do not impugn the majesty of my endowment.
"It's hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent," he said, adding that he also gets things wrong when he speaks publicly, and other public figures do as well.
Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said the attendance of Duterte and Carpio "demonstrates that both gentlemen are willing and ready to face malicious allegations intended to impugn their character and credibility."
Mr. Iyengar also points out that Americans are willing to impugn members of the other party in ways that aren't publicly acceptable with other groups, like minorities, women or gays.
For these voters, Goldstone wrote, an attack on Trump is an attack on themselves; hence the strength of their response to efforts to impugn Trump or remove him from power.
So it is bound to be attacked by skeptics and by partisans of Mr. Trump, who see the review as a political effort to impugn the legitimacy of his election.
Much of what they're trying to do to me is similar to what they've done to scientists in the past: try to impugn my reputation, claim that my methods are faulty.
We can crush conservatives in a heartbeat, all we have to do is impugn you by calling you a racist or anything ending in an Easter foe and you were finished.
To broach implicit bias isn't to impugn someone's values; it's to recognize that our values compete on an unconscious level with all the stereotypes we absorb from the world around us.
"The misdeeds of bad actors should not impugn or undermine the legitimate and honorable work that law enforcement officers and agencies perform in keeping American communities safe," Sessions wrote in the memo.
" Zuckerberg said that it's "hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent" of users, and that Facebook will allow content "even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.
Calls for "extreme vetting" or sweeping bans don't just fail to reduce the already nonexistent risk to Americans, but also impugn the work of the employees already doing a bang-up job.
Moreover the memo does little to impugn the behavior of current F.B.I. and Justice Department leadership, like Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who some believe is in the president's cross hairs.
" And Dylan Farrow, now 32, responded to the essay in a tweet, writing that her brother sought to "impugn my mother who has only ever been supportive of me and my siblings.
"It should be against the law for unscrupulous analysts to assess stocks based on cash flow and profit, to impugn a company based on eight lines of a financial report," he joked.
It also saw Republican lawmakers impugn the patriotism of Ukraine-born Vindman, a refugee from the Soviet Union who wears a Purple Heart after being wounded in combat with the US Army.
Some commentators argued the pope's comments had been taken out of context by the media, and that if you looked closely at what he said, Francis didn't intend to impugn Trump personally.
Add to this toxic stew the lack of racial diversity on-air and we can see how someone like O'Reilly would feel free to impugn a black woman before an audience of millions.
If you impugn our field as being comprised of just well-meaning people providing latte and travel cost-cutting tips, then you have no understanding of what it takes to create impactful learning.
It is Democrats who oppose President Trump, who oppose Attorney General Jeff Sessions because he's a conservative and a Republican … and who are now using this as an excuse to impugn his character.
He said Monday that he was refusing to cooperate with the subpoena because he believes investigators are trying to get him to impugn controversial Trump ally Roger Stone, who Nunberg called his mentor.
"For Ms. Jewell to impugn the integrity of the Corps and the men and women who serve our nation is simply un-American," the Midwest Alliance for Infrastructure Now said in a statement.
"Judge Day does not appear to recognize situations that either impugn his integrity or trigger ethical violations," the Commission wrote in a 48-page decision filed on Monday with the Oregon Supreme Court.
It does no credit to the arguments of the parties to impugn the motives or the competence of the members of this court; ad hominem attacks are not a substitute for effective advocacy.
According to the report, Putin's aim was to impugn Hillary Clinton's credibility and boost Donald Trump's chances of winning the election, and more broadly to make the US electoral system look shady and untrustworthy.
JASON CHAFFETZ, FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMAN: No if you impugn the integrity of another member, if you&aposre in sighting violence like that, she should be censured and I&aposm glad you brought that up.
Zuckerberg said in an interview last week that it's difficult for the platform to ban accounts that push conspiracy theories, such as holocaust denials, because it is "hard to impugn intent" from those users.
Zuckerberg said in an interview last week that it's difficult for the platform to ban accounts that push conspiracy theories, such as Holocaust denials, because it is "hard to impugn intent" from those users.
But Judge Polster gently reminded everyone in the litigation that Ohio ethics rules prohibit lawyers from making comments outside of the courtroom that impugn the character or reputation of a party in the case.
Filipinos now emulate the methods of our leaders, with women all along the political spectrum threatened online with rape and criticized for their sexuality or their gender as a way to impugn their opinions.
" The GOP member conceded that Democrats are "leading with their very strongest witnesses, the ones whose reputations are the hardest to impugn, the ones whose depositions draw a closer connection than most would like.
And yet, how can people respect a system that utilizes the sophisticated tools of legalese, the purported due diligence of formal reports, and the officialdom of drawn-out investigations to impugn common sense justice?
"Some time ago, Republicans on our committee released a declassified memo that omitted and distorted key facts in order to mislead the public and impugn the integrity of the FBI," Schiff said on Twitter Saturday.
This is not to impugn our current president or imply that he is unfit for office, but the frequency of inquiries raised about his behavior makes it timely, if not imperative, to address these questions.
Their best tactic might be to impugn Comey's motives and integrity by claiming that he deserved to be fired for mishandling the Clinton email investigation and the Russia investigation had nothing to do with it.
The White House had developed a plan alongside the Republican National Committee to rebut the claims in Comey's book and impugn Comey's character, including launching a "Lyin' Comey" website and distributing talking points to surrogates.
Chicago (CNN)Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, says he believes Republicans are engaged in an "unprecedented" attempt to impugn special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and the integrity of the FBI.
"The senator is reminded that it is a violation of Rule 19 of the standing rules of the Senate to impugn another senator or senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator," said Sen.
"Granite Staters are not gullible or naive, and we do not appreciate those who impugn the integrity of our state's voting systems based on unsubstantiated accusations," Shaheen said in a written statement to the panel Tuesday.
And the publication of the material is damaging not least because the questionable character of this dossier can be used to impugn the integrity of the American intelligence community, even though it was not the source.
"They threw in an unrelated photograph of a firearm, in order to, I guess, impugn some bad act or blame [on Jefferson]… That's more like the Fort Worth we know," Merritt said at the press conference.
Many of the rank-and-file staffers were alarmed, not just because the questions seemed designed to impugn NATO 's legitimacy but because they represented a breach of protocol by tasking N.S.C. staffers with political duties.
You have the left, you have Democrats and their friends in the media that their echo chamber always conducting what was a malicious campaign to impugn the character of good people, the track record of good people.
The petition, which has floated through the company's internal communications systems for several weeks, does not impugn Google's intention to avoid combat applications, instead focusing on the possibility of the military's repurposing of such technology once delivered.
Instead, the dominant trend online and even on TV is to impugn these survivors' credibility—to say they are Soros puppets, doing it for their 15 minutes of fame, doin' it for the Vine, or whatever else.
Speaking to reporters last Tuesday, Trump, who has faced over a dozen specific allegations of sexual harassment himself, portrayed the charges against Kavanaugh as the symbol of a feminist movement that now sought to impugn all men.
But several current and former officials told NBC News they believed Trump's stance was mainly driven by his fear that a finding of Russian interference in the election would impugn or undermine his victory — and they understood that.
Far be it from me to impugn anyone else's accuracy, since 90 percent of the facts in this section are just stuff I made up on the assumption nobody will call me on it, but that seems weird.
Fewer still would have thought it possible for an American president to insult more friends (treaty allies), impugn his own government's intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and so overtly embrace a key adversary in such a compressed time.
"But I will not allow anyone to take a few misplaced words and impugn my record of service to our country," he added, noting he mistakenly said he had served "in" Vietnam rather than stating "during Vietnam" instead.
But Mr. Cruz, the winner of the Iowa caucuses, has worked harder than any Republican running for president to portray himself as the true and pure conservative and to impugn his rivals as not faithful enough in their conservatism.
The ban's challengers "offer no valid reason to impugn" the executive branch's "country-specific findings" or to veer away from the so-called "presumption of regularity" and "good faith" of cabinet officials who helped Mr Trump craft the policy.
As noted by the Times, Sessions has said that he will review federal agreements with law enforcement agencies, like the one proposed to overhaul Baltimore police, saying that "the individual misdeeds of bad actors should not impugn" entire departments.
In a desperate attempt to destroy his reputation and impugn his character, liberal journalists pored over his hundreds of published articles, media appearances, and offhand jokes, pulling quotes stripped of any context to make him seem sexist and racist.
An almost comical section deals with Twitter provocateur Jacob Wohl and conservative lobbyist Jack Burkman, captured by the cameras improvising allegations as they seek to impugn the reputation of special counsel Robert Mueller during a fact-free press conference.
If these mug shots inadvertently captured the humanity and special qualities of their principled subjects, as Mr. Etheridge observed, their intention was nefarious: to publicly impugn and humiliate people whose only crime was to advocate equality through peaceful protest.
He framed it as a logical conclusion, suggesting that if the results are close, he has a right to impugn the results, and, he argued, Clinton is so corrupt that he has no choice but to maintain that right.
Navarro had warned prosecutors last week she might declare a mistrial after listing documents previously undisclosed by prosecutors that could be used to impugn government witnesses or bolster defendants' arguments that they felt threatened by government "snipers" before the standoff.
" McAndrews added, "I thought the phone calls were significant and did impugn her credibility, but the prosecution was able to defuse most of that impact by showing they were primarily work-related and returned phone calls from ones initiated by Cosby.
Representative Adam B. Schiff, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, who has seen the underlying classified materials on which the memo is based, has said the memo contains both inaccurate assertions and material omissions to misleadingly impugn law enforcement officials.
After it was revealed that Mr. Hodgkinson, the shooting suspect, supported Mr. Sanders's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, some distorted Mr. Sanders's speech at a gathering of progressives in Chicago on Saturday night to impugn him for the shooting.
A letter to the State Department from two senior Democratic lawmakers in the House dated April 12 — just days before Ms. Yovanovitch was ordered to leave her post — said they were concerned by "outrageous efforts by Ukrainian officials to impugn" her.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, understanding sentiment in the Republican grassroots over the Russia issue, backed the release of the document even though he made a somewhat half-hearted argument that it did not impugn the Mueller investigation in any way.
I don't mean to impugn anybody that's buying the series — I really, really appreciate it — but I think, often times, things may not always be appreciated in their time, where it turns out later that this was actually something great.
Marshall had indicted a member of Congress, Frank Buchanan of Illinois, as part of an investigation about German government meddling in the US. Buchanan tried to impeach Marshall and the ensuing disagreement led Marshall to impugn the House in a strongly worded letter.
It's unfair to impugn the younger Givhan just because his grandfather accused the NAACP of seeking to "open the bedroom doors of our white women to the Negro men," though both Givhans seem to share certain assumptions about women's agency over their bodies.
In a world where political leaders are realizing that they can govern on outright lies and even the words used to impugn such behavior have quickly been adopted to further their mission of disarray, the only response that makes sense is confusion.
I'm not sure how many Clinton staffers think it's a good idea to impugn the integrity of someone based on a refusal to fully release documents, but those people need to be fired or at least reassigned to the Clinton Foundation right away.
In a series of tweets after the event on Tuesday evening, the artist stressed that he was merely projecting the quote he had been told, and that he did not mean to impugn Clinton or her campaign to be the first female president.
" In 2010, Blumenthal, who received five military deferments before enlisting in the Marine Reserves, said he may have "misspoken" about his service but would not allow "anyone to take a few misplaced words and impugn my record of service to our country.
"What Trump has been willing to do is say terrible things about women, mock the disabled, disparage minorities, impugn the character of POWs, and go after the Gold Star parents of a fallen U.S. soldier," Flake said in a statement to The Hill.
Facing the possibility of his defeat this November, it is not hard to imagine that he might invoke enhanced presidential powers, even a declaration of martial law, or commandeer his reliable and susceptible Republican allies in Congress, to impugn the 2020 presidential election.
In cultures where men are expected to be more self-reliant and help seeking is considered an atypical behavior for male leaders, then men will be less likely than women to seek help, fearing that it would impugn their reputations for competence.
He may also provide documents to back up his claims, the source said, an important consideration since Trump's Republican allies will seek to impugn Cohen's credibility given that he has already pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, along with tax and fraud charges.
But Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) insisted Thursday that the release of the memo will not impugn the Russia probe.
Sessions said the guidance he issued in October lays out 20 fundamental principles for the executive branch to follow, including the principles that free exercise means a right to act — or to abstain from action — and that government shouldn't impugn people's motives or beliefs.
Turning on the television or opening Twitter, we find people who have no memory of the Second World War invoking a kind of blitz spirit, or succumbing to fits of self-righteous fury because someone has dared to impugn the legacy of Winston Churchill.
Senator Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, is proposing a constitutional amendment to raise the voting threshold for passing articles of impeachment in the House to three-fifths, from a simple majority, because of what he saw as a partisan attempt to impugn Mr. Trump.
Should Kavanaugh reach the court, millions of women and liberals will see him as the illegitimate product of an immoral confirmation process -- a reality that will impugn the integrity of one of the few bodies in American civic life that has retained some public trust.
A large partisan divide has opened up in perceptions of the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with both President Trump's efforts to impugn the work of the FBI and progressive activists' call to "Abolish ICE" succeeding in changing their intended audiences' perceptions of the agencies involved.
Jeff Yang: Any watcher of 'Law and Order' can see through the GOP's strategy There's something truly bizarre in watching Republican congressmen try to impugn Michael Cohen by calling him a thug, a liar, a narcissist and a fraud who'll do and say anything to get ahead.
"And the problem with the Black Lives Matter movement and Katie McGinty propagating this is just that phrase itself is meant to impugn the integrity of the police by implying that they don't think black lives do matter," Toomey said to mixed reactions from the crowd.
Terrorism, as he sees it, is by definition is a tactic designed to create the maximum fear, emotion and panic in the populace, to lure the target into taking irrational responses that highlight the terrorists' cause, impugn its own values and lead to a spiral of chaos and ruin.
Trump has also sought to impugn the credibility of the anonymous whistleblower, highlighting unverified reports that the individual worked for former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenGOP senators balk at lengthy impeachment trial 2020 Democrats make play for veterans' votes 2020 Dems put focus on stemming veteran suicides MORE.
"The Senate floor has even become a place where senators have singled out colleagues by name to attack them in personal terms, to impugn their character, in blatant disregard for Senate rules," Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Ut.) said in a blistering speech directed at Cruz that did not name him directly.
Editorial In less than an hour on Wednesday afternoon, President Trump found a way to impugn the integrity and threaten the livelihoods of nearly all of the country's top law enforcement officials, including some he appointed, for one simple reason: They swore an oath to defend the Constitution, not him.
I don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong, but I think it's hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent ... I just don't think that it is the right thing to say, 'We're going to take someone off the platform if they get things wrong, even multiple times.
It's not clear exactly what evidence, if any, the special counsel's investigation has specifically about Trump telling Cohen to lie — and if they don't have anything in writing or on tape, Trump defenders can be expected to impugn Cohen's character as someone who is, well, willing to lie to get what he wants.
Lindsey Graham, a historically pro-immigration senator who in recent years has been desperate to stay on Trump's good side, explained that in his view, it's okay for Trump to impugn the equal standing of Somali American citizens because Trump would be willing to make exceptions for Somali Americans who were pro-Trump.
But there is something else that will help: a far more assertive defense from the news media, of what it does well and honestly, and against the sustained attempts to impugn its motives through the many false and misleading political-style attacks that too often are mixed in with the valid criticism.
But here's the problem for us as fellow human beings: Without knowing you, the more I take the occasion of disagreement with what I think you're saying or doing to impugn not just these things but you and your motives along with them, the more I tacitly withdraw from the whole idea of democratic discourse.
Downing on Tuesday spent several hours firing questions at Gates to impugn his credibility and paint him as a liar, asking about everything from his extramarital affair in London and funds he embezzled from Manafort, to questions on whether he may have crossed the line by submitting personal expenses when he worked for Trump's inaugural committee.
"I think that if somebody has become exclusively 'anti-anti-Trump' it's kind of a way of making—I don't want to impugn motives—but if you're against Trump, one way to sort of live at peace in this world now within the conservative movement is to be exclusively or dominantly 'anti-anti-Trump,'" he said.
News Analysis WASHINGTON — When House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said on Tuesday that he wanted Americans to see a secret memo that portrays the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation as scandalous, he also said he cautioned his Republican colleagues not to use it to impugn Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel running the inquiry.
Rage, anxiety and a contempt laced with carnival humor are the keynotes, whether it's Brando's spite for his mother's church — where women who catch the spirit "writhe around like a fumigated centipede" — or the virtuosic slut shaming of Yesenia by her grandmother, who hacks off her beautiful hair with poultry shears for trying to impugn her beloved grandson's morals.
Nunberg has offered varied responses when asked why he is opposed to the request, from saying the document request is asking too much to arguing that Democrats are treated differently from Republicans in investigations and saying he does not want to take part in an investigation that would impugn Trump ally Roger Stone, who Nunberg describes as a mentor.
These well-steeled and long-standing lies have long been a staple of Russian active measures and disinformation that seek to implicate not just the CIA and U.S. government as supporters of terrorism (when in fact Moscow supports the Taliban, Hezbollah and earlier the FARC as well as terrorism in Ukraine) but also to impugn the reputation of these international cargo carriers.
Cohen knocked ranking member Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanDemocratic Women's Caucus calls for investigation into Epstein plea deal DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews CNN slams GOP for not appearing on network after mass shootings, conservatives fire back MORE (R-Ohio) and other GOP lawmakers for focusing using their time to impugn his credibility rather than ask about President Trump.
Mr. Trump said nothing more publicly through the day and left it to his advisers to argue that the cases did not impugn him because Mr. Manafort's actions were unrelated to his campaign service while Mr. Papadopoulos was just a volunteer whose efforts to set up meetings with higher-ranking officials were unrealized and who pleaded guilty to lying to F.B.I. agents, not to illegal campaign activity.
JULIAN: Republicans have made central to their narrative of criticizing this impeachment inquiry the idea that these accusations against Mr. Trump originated with an unknown and far-removed person from the C.I.A. They didn't use that term "deep state" today, but by highlighting the whistle-blower and highlighting the Democrats' reluctance to call forward the whistle-blower to testify, they're trying to impugn the entire proceeding.
In an animated gathering in Beirut on Wednesday Ghosn mostly sought to impugn the Japanese justice system which held him for an alleged 130 days in solitary confinement, interrogated him for up to eight hours day or night without a lawyer present, prohibited visits from his wife and restricted the wealthy ex-head of the world's second biggest car conglomerate to just two showers a week.
" * Reached for comment on Duterte Communications Secretary Martin Andanar's remark, Phelim Kine of Human Rights Watch said: "Andanar's ham-fisted attempt to impugn the integrity of Human Rights Watch's on-the-ground, verified research of summary executions by Philippine police personnel and their agents in the Duterte 'drug war' is emblematic of the Philippine government's tactic of denial and distraction in a craven attempt to dodge accountability for what is nothing less than a policy of state slaughter of urban slum dwellers under the veneer of an anti-crime campaign.
Two GOP senators (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 of Arkansas, David Perdue of Georgia) impugn the integrity of the No. 2900 Democrat in the Senate (Dick DurbinRichard (Dick) Joseph DurbinSenate Democrats push Trump to permanently shutter migrant detention facility House panel investigating decision to resume federal executions To combat domestic terrorism, Congress must equip law enforcement to fight rise in white supremacist attacks MORE of Illinois) and, thus, the atmosphere is severely poisoned, thereby hindering chances to work together on things like infrastructure and immigration; 220006.

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