These scandals are better understood as a political smear campaign.
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Kent said Giuliani conducted a smear campaign against the envoy.
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" Allies of Sessions have called that testimony a "smear campaign.
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And they went on this huge smear campaign against me.
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A smear campaign against the FBI and our intelligence officers.
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Devin Nunes: 'This is a carefully orchestrated media smear campaign.'
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This statement fanned the fire of an online smear campaign.
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"This is a carefully orchestrated media smear campaign," Nunes said.
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She dismissed much of the criticism as a smear campaign.
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They have "embarked on a public smear campaign," it says.
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The same kind of smear campaign used against Justice Clarence Thomas.
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Edwards claims he's simply defending his reputation from a smear campaign.
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" Hill called the allegations in the RedState article a "smear campaign.
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Moore said Sunday morning there was a "smear campaign" against him.
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I've been the victim of a smear campaign and it hurts.
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Waiguru denies any involvement and called the allegations "a smear campaign".
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Kent says smear campaign against Yovanovitch was 'ubiquitous' 2:20 p.m.
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He says talk of default is a smear campaign against him.
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Hill claims she is the target of a political smear campaign.
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They will intensify their smear campaign and continue to hurt us.
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Donald Trump failed to get the smear campaign he wanted from Ukraine.
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Arista has denied the allegations and accused Cisco of a smear campaign.
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Palestinian leaders decried the report as a "smear campaign" targeted at Abbas.
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Some Republican lawmakers joined Kavanaugh in alleging a Democratic smear campaign. Sen.
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The government dismissed that as part of a right-wing smear campaign.
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Senators have a choice: endorse a smear campaign or support Judge Kavanaugh.
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Mr. McCrory complained about "a vicious, nationwide smear campaign" in late March.
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He also said he was the target of a Democratic smear campaign.
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He thinks the brothers were lured into the smear campaign by cops.
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Government officials have dismissed default speculation as a right-wing smear campaign.
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The motion said Avenatti had been running a "smear campaign" against Cohen.
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He blamed a smear campaign — that he said was orchestrated by Mrs.
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Trump denied the allegations, saying they were part of a smear campaign.
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The internet just provides the newest bullhorn for a millennia-old smear campaign.
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This is a smear campaign from a publication that once referred to our
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" Belafonte has since alleged Mel B's allegations were part of a "smear campaign.
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Meanwhile, Trump's team launched a racist and xenophobic smear campaign against the Khans.
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Mitch McConnell has called the women's allegations a "shameless smear campaign" and Sen.
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Kagoike said he's now the victim of a "malicious and libelous" smear campaign.
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" In his letter, Slater accused Gay of waging a jealousy-motivated "smear campaign.
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He blamed the accusations on a smear campaign to tarnish his father's reputation.
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Moving forward with such a smear campaign is low, even by Adal's standards.
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They view it as an unfair Democratic smear campaign against a good man.
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He accused the mainstream media of leading a "massive smear campaign" against him.
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The Kremlin described such allegations as part of an anti-Russian smear campaign.
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Kavanaugh has unequivocally denied all accounts, calling them elements of a smear campaign.
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Trump denied the allegations, accusing Democrats and the media of a smear campaign.
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Moscow has described the allegations as part of an anti-Russian smear campaign.
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Another is that the Clintons were targets of an unusually intense smear campaign.
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Mr. Karoui has said the allegations amounted to a politically motivated smear campaign.
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Giuliani and Lutsenko had been involved in spreading a smear campaign against her.
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Rwigara and her family say the images were part of a smear campaign.
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Mr. Kenny has promised to investigate whether a smear campaign targeted Sergeant McCabe.
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No, you're not interested in my background—you're interested in creating a smear campaign.
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Unfortunately, he has turned political differences into a smear campaign against the Prime Minister.
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" Belafonte and his lawyers maintain innocence, accusing the allegations of being a "smear campaign.
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The White House has cast him as being the victim of a smear campaign.
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"I have to leave, having become the target of a smear campaign," he said.
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Anderson has previously claimed the accusations were part of the "smear campaign" against him.
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Wilder then began a public "smear campaign" against Povetkin and Ryabinskiy, the lawsuit said.
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It wasn't local for me, and we all believed it was a smear campaign.
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"This smear campaign circulates everywhere: in American media, then in Ukrainian media," said Leshchenko.
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Hale gave new details on state's reaction to a smear campaign against Marie Yovanovitch.
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The consultant reportedly denied this, charging the accusation was part of a smear campaign.
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Is he part of the smear campaign you alluded to in a recent statement?
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Only gradually, though, did Yovanovitch realize the extent of the smear campaign against her.
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"I think voters are so appalled, just appalled, by the smear campaign," Hawley said.
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This is an orchestrated smear campaign, so predictable, so coordinated, so filled with hate, demagoguery.
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The vicious smear campaign to extort Luke and damage him and his family is inexcusable.
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One way to tell Vindman's testimony was significant: Conservative media commentators launched a smear campaign.
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Correa has denied allegations of corruption in his administration, calling them a political smear campaign.
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Xie's lawyer and wife stood by their claims, accusing the government of a smear campaign.
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In 1976, the KGB launched a smear campaign against the anti-Soviet Democratic candidate Sen.
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O'Reilly has denied the allegations and said he was the victim of a smear campaign.
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They testified that it was "shameful" the way she was removed following the smear campaign.
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Moore has vehemently denied all the allegations, calling them a smear campaign by his opponents.
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But some scholars question whether to trust records created as part of a smear campaign.
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"SPLC is engaged in a vile smear campaign against a Jewish staffer," the spokesperson said.
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A smear campaign was concocted, he theorized, to create more sympathy for a Yovanovitch purge.
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That smear campaign ultimately led to her unceremonious dismissal months before her time was up.
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They're joining in the media and the left's smear campaign but it's going to backfire.
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The first document release already connected the president to the smear campaign against Ambassador Yovanovitch.
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"The U.S. is getting restless and has launched a smear campaign against Xinjiang," Zakir said.
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I call on 'DC' Dean Heller to join me in publicly denouncing McConnell's smear campaign.
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Yovanovitch questions necessity of 'smear campaign' Yovanovitch, who said she had been the target of a smear campaign that included Trump, said that while she understood Trump's authority to remove her as an ambassador, she did not understand the need for attacks on her reputation.
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Its also pretty nauseating to work for someone who'd empower a smear campaign by fascists #cybernazis .
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Pishevar is suing the company for what he has described as a "smear campaign" against him.
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"You have criminally political prosecutors in this case on a personal smear campaign," he told Politico.
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Pishevar, through his lawyer, now says these allegations are part of a "smear campaign" against him.
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In a statement to Fox News, Gillespie's campaign manager called the ad a "desperate smear campaign."
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The smear campaign against Tucker and his "car of tomorrow" lead to his company going bankrupt.
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Ironically, it's a smear campaign spearheaded by NBC to undermine Netflix that has reinforced my opinion.
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Fujimori and her aide have denied wrongdoing and said they were victims of a smear campaign.
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He has alleged that the accusations are part of a "smear" campaign motivated by political revenge.
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It said it was the victim of a media smear campaign and has promised an inquiry.
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This is especially problematic to many liberals because of the racial overtones of Trump's smear campaign.
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Regarding the human trafficking smear campaign — yes, those rumors massively affected us but we'll bounce back.
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Stephen is strongly insinuating it is Mel B, not him, who is waging a smear campaign.
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Ailes has denied Carlson's allegations, and accused Carlson of conducting a public "smear campaign" against him.
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If you've seen a good political smear campaign, you'll know smears are funny, interesting and shareable.
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"It was the Senate Democrats who launched a personal smear campaign against Brett Kavanaugh," Hawley said.
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He has accused Democrats of conducting a smear campaign to keep him off the Supreme Court.
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On Monday morning, he took to Twitter to continue his smear campaign against a soldier's widow.
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In hindsight, I realise that this was very likely the Miramax smear campaign in full swing.
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"Trump ran a smear campaign, plain and simple," Mr. Perry, the chief of the tribe, said.
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But Mr. Ghosn said the accusations had been leaked as part of a Nissan smear campaign.
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In the 1960s, the F.B.I. under J. Edgar Hoover orchestrated a smear campaign against the Rev.
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Pishevar has claimed that he has become the target of an ugly smear campaign against him.
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" Ravina also testified her reputation and career were damaged when Bekaert engaged in the emailed "smear campaign.
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She has also been the target of a smear campaign designed to tarnish her character, he says.
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Yes, the 2016 election campaign involved a "smear campaign" implying that a candidate hadn't committed attempted murder.
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A transition official accused Democrats of running a smear campaign and lauded Puzder as a successful businessman.
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"This was a costly, wasteful, premeditated smear campaign against Secretary Clinton," Grayson campaign manager Michael Ceraso said.
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She's also been called a liar, a Democratic operative and part of a media-driven smear campaign.
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She described her ousting as a nearly yearlong "smear campaign" that was based on fabrications and lies.
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The country has repeatedly denied responsibility for WannaCry and called other allegations about cyberattacks a smear campaign.
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"You guys are pathetic," Trump adviser David Bossie replied, accusing them of a smear campaign against Bannon.
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"She wants to go on a smear campaign on his character and his actions," Ms. Clark said.
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"You have criminally political prosecutors who violated the Hatch Act on a personal smear campaign," he said.
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But in hindsight, I realize that this was very likely the Miramax smear campaign in full swing.
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" It was John Danforth, Republican of Missouri, who referred to Ms. Hill's testimony as a "smear campaign.
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The secretary has been accused of failing to protect Yovanovitch from a smear campaign spearheaded by Giuliani.
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He has repeatedly denied the allegations and claimed his accusers are orchestrating a smear campaign against him.
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It's why Trump pressured Ukraine to conduct a smear campaign in the first place: Because he could.
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The problem for Hart was that, unlike Muskie, the smear campaign against him wasn't totally a smear.
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But even by the far left's standards, this shameful, shameful smear campaign has hit a new low.
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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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Moore has denied the allegations, saying they are "completely false," and suggesting it is a smear campaign.
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Ilmars Rimsevics, who denies any wrongdoing, claimed he was the victim of a smear campaign on Tuesday.
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Moore has denied Corfman's accusations, saying they are "completely false," and suggesting it is a smear campaign.
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The smear campaign waged by the left is aimed at nothing less than undermining our constitutional rights.
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Supporters of the party believe its opponents have orchestrated an elaborate smear campaign in the news media.
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A rising senator in the other party is decrying the White House "smear campaign" against the investigation.
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The bizarre tactic was apparently a smear campaign meant to make a rival reservations app, Reserve, look bad.
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So, Fusion GPS, the firm that did the Trump dossier, started to do a smear campaign on me.
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Don't forget he's the guy who ran a five year smear campaign claiming Obama wasn't born in America.
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Fillon has said his wife's work was real, and that he is the victim of a smear campaign.
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Ms. Hill had previously accused her husband, Kenny Heslep, and Republican operatives of "a smear campaign" against her.
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Much of that money was spent on a smear campaign to frighten voters away from William Jennings Bryan.
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"You have criminally political prosecutors in this case on a personal smear campaign," Hunter told Politico on Tuesday.
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These false allegations are part of a smear campaign to disparage me during a divorce and custody battle.
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For them, Moore's alleged misdeeds were the product of a biased liberal media smear campaign and nothing more.
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Wilson believed her name was leaked by the Bush administration as part of a smear campaign against him.
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Pyongyang has denied responsibility for WannaCry and called other allegations that it launched cyber attacks a smear campaign.
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But the egg board, it turned out, was a chief architect of the smear campaign against Hampton Creek.
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Trump has denied the accusations and has accused Democrats and the news media of orchestrating a smear campaign.
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You know it was a f—ing smear campaign and you have never taken a moment to apologize.
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U don't know a smear campaign from the oval office, the tabloids, the actual news, two federal investigations?
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Morales said he had been subject to a false, foreign-led smear campaign leading up to the referendum.
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The former television host has denied the allegations and said he was the victim of a smear campaign.
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On Monday, several top-ranking Republicans called the allegations of sexual assault part of a Democratic smear campaign.
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"This entire smear campaign is a fraud built on illegal acts and a web of lies," she said.
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The country has repeatedly denied responsibility for WannaCry and called other allegations about cyber attacks a smear campaign.
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Moore has denied all the allegations and accused the women of being part of a political smear campaign.
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He said the allegations were a smear campaign by people he had turned down for his campaign team.
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Then she began speaking out against the Chinese government and became the victim of a lurid smear campaign.
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What do you think of the criticism that this is all just a Democratic smear campaign against Kavanaugh?
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He has also seized on the smear-campaign narrative, sending out a fundraising email in response the allegations.
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Giuliani led a smear campaign against Yovanovitch before she was abruptly recalled from her diplomatic post in May.
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"This is just another forgettable chapter in a smear campaign against the NRA," Arulanandam said in a statement.
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Moore has repeatedly denied the accusations, saying they are "completely false" and suggesting it is a smear campaign.
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He insists Venezuela and PDVSA will make all debt payments, calling default talk a right-wing smear campaign.
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Democrats, in turn, accuse Republicans of conducting a smear campaign intended to protect Trump by discrediting Mueller's investigation.
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Asked about the attacks on Oleksandr, Kliment said his church was itself the victim of a smear campaign.
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President Vladimir Putin denied the allegations, which he described as a smear campaign driven by anti-Russian sentiment.
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Fillon has said his wife's work was real, and that he has been the victim of a smear campaign.
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" The clip ends with Camille crying into Rinna's arms and saying, "I've been a victim of a smear campaign.
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Others in his party have gone further, accusing some right-leaning media of mounting a smear campaign against Corbyn.
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The committee's top Republican criticized the request as harassment and said Democrats were pursuing a smear campaign against Kavanaugh.
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Trump suggested he had been the victim of a smear campaign launched by senior officials in the Obama administration.
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The complaint also alleges that Weinstein enlisted attorney Jose Baez as part of his alleged smear campaign against her.
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In 2014, Uber vice president Emil Michael threatened Pando Daily editor-in-chief Sarah Lacy with a smear campaign.
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And at least 13 other Republican Senators have openly validated the smear campaign either on camera or through questions.
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He has repeatedly denied the allegations, claiming all his victims are lying and orchestrating a smear campaign against him.
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Gatti dismissed the allegations as a "smear campaign" and said he had asked his lawyers to protect his reputation.
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Page has been blanketing the airwaves to say he's the subject of a witch hunt and a smear campaign.
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They know that what awaits them will be a smear campaign intended to silence them and destroy their careers.
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A lawyer for O'Reilly said Monday the host bad been subject to a "smear campaign" by far-left groups.
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Fujimori has defended her aide and said both are victims of a smear campaign to keep her from power.
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The documents show Pompeo&aposs hand in facilitating Giuliani&aposs smear campaign that Yovanovitch alleged during her damning testimony.
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Moore has denied the allegations, saying they are "completely false" and suggesting they are part of a smear campaign.
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Kavanaugh has denied both allegations, and Senate Republicans and the White House have accused Democrats of a smear campaign.
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Part of the reason for this inaction is the smear campaign being run by Big Pharma against the bill.
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Critics worry the president's smear campaign in these areas will do much more lasting damage to the justice system.
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His enemies frequently called him a communist and the FBI targeted King with harassment and a lengthy smear campaign.
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Are you really concerned about mean comments, they ask, or just playing into a smear campaign led by moderates?
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Never mind what today's general election polls say: What will polling look like after the inevitable Republican smear campaign?
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She posted a response calling his vid "the most bizarre smear campaign attempt i've ever seen" and textbook manipulation.
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She sort of ran into a full on smear campaign that was waged by the president's attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
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Parnas publicly apologized to Yovanovitch for his role in the smear campaign against her and for engineering her dismissal.
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Saudi Arabia previously accused beIN of orchestrating "a smear campaign" designed to connect the kingdom with beoutQ's pirated broadcasts.
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Saudi Arabia previously accused beIN of orchestrating "a smear campaign" designed to connect the kingdom with beoutQ's pirated broadcasts.
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Hill's recollections of sexual harassment get predictably cast as part of a feminist smear campaign designed to destroy him.
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Mary Magdalene suffered all three treatments, some scholars say -- including a smear campaign that has lasted nearly 2,000 years.
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But it's significant that Pompeo issued no public statement supporting her or rejecting the smear campaign launched against her.
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She has testified at length about Trump and Giuliani&aposs smear campaign against her leading up to her removal.
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Sullivan said he was aware of the smear campaign and believed that Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, was involved.
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Menendez said he will continue an investigation into the details surrounding Yovanovitch's dismissal and the smear campaign around her.
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In a recent statement, Taksim Solidarity denounced the indictment of the 16 as a smear campaign against the protests.
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Back then, D&D was the subject of a massive smear campaign claiming that the game promoted suicide and satanism.
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Johnny Depp is firing back at his former business managers, claiming they're trying to discredit him with a "smear" campaign.
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Saudi women's rights campaigner Manal al-Sharif, who lives in Australia, said she had received threats following the smear campaign.
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Mr Danyliuk, who has been subjected to a smear campaign at home, says he is now being forced to resign.
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Maduro calls those charges a smear campaign, and insists that the United States must do more to reduce drug consumption.
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As part of the alleged scheme, Giuliani helped orchestrate a smear campaign of Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
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Tiger Temple representatives have since launched an uncensored smear campaign against local police and animal advocates on their Facebook page.
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However, Paws for Effect says it was blindsided by what it calls PETA's smear campaign ahead of the movie's release.
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A lawyer for O'Reilly said Monday that the host had been subject to a "smear campaign" by far-left groups.
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Republicans pounced, arguing Trump's nominee was being victimized by a smear campaign and arguing the involvement of Avenatti proved it.
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Kavanaugh vehemently denied the allegations, and he and Republican lawmakers labeled them part of a "smear" campaign against the judge.
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Moore, now 70, has denied the allegations, painting them as a smear campaign by the Democratic Party and the media.
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Yovanovitch came up during today's hearing as Kent described a "smear campaign" by Giuliani against her prior to her ouster.
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That smear campaign, backed with no public evidence, ultimately led to her unceremonious dismissal months before her time was up.
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It is all part of a smear campaign against anybody who comes out with the truth against the Democratic Party.
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Mr. Rubin denied the allegations, claiming they are part of a "smear campaign" against him; Mr. Singhal declined to comment.
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How did naysayers have the right to take one mistake and spin it into a bigger lie, a smear campaign?
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Later he waged a smear campaign against H.R. McMaster on the grounds that the national security adviser was anti-Israel.
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Mr. Pflughoeft would not speculate as to whether there was a coordinated smear campaign at work against Harley's chief executive.
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But her gun-control activism also attracted a smear campaign and personal attacks from conservative figures and far-right fringes.
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He also accused Carson of starting a smear campaign against Foster and demanded that the secretary publicly apologize to her.
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In their statements denouncing a smear campaign against Kavanaugh, Republicans repeatedly referred to the gang rape allegations that Swetnick raised.
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André Carson (D-Ind.) brought up the smear campaign against ousted former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, for example, and Rep.
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Several witnesses described a smear campaign against Yovanovitch, which was used by the president as a reason to remove her.
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Maduro says default concerns are the product of a smear campaign by adversaries and insists the country will honor its obligations.
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We&aposre going to show you the worst of the worst and explain why this is so predictable, the smear campaign.
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Trump has vehemently denied all the allegations, suggesting they are surfacing now because of a "smear" campaign to derail his candidacy.
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Shortly after that suit was filed, Hyperloop One filed a counter suit against BamBrogan accusing him of launching a smear campaign.
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Last year, she filed a lawsuit against Maxwell, alleging that she was behind a smear campaign seeking to tarnish Roberts' reputation.
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The government still says it has one of the world's best health systems and accuses detractors of waging a smear campaign.
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The company originally criticized the Rincon-Shiera case as part of a wider U.S.-led conspiracy and "smear campaign" against socialism.
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For voicing her fears, she says, she has been the victim of a smear campaign within the party and branded "transphobic".
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Oakley says Dolan then ran a smear campaign, falsely accusing him of being an alcoholic who was drunk at the Garden.
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The Trump campaign denied the groping allegation in a statement and called Allred a "discredited political operative" waging a smear campaign.
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The column, penned by Obama administration alums Steven Simon (NSC) and Daniel Benjamin (State), is representative of the broader smear campaign.
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Quang A, 69, said local officials ran a smear campaign against him and told the hearing he was an unfriendly neighbor.
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A lawyer for O'Reilly said earlier this week that he had been subject to a "smear campaign" by far-left groups.
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Gordhan has denied any wrongdoing and has called the investigation a smear campaign aimed at tarnishing his and the Treasury's credibility.
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Sarah Isgur Flores, Sessions's spokeswoman, told The Hill last week the accusations are a "smear campaign" aimed at undermining his confirmation.
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The Democrats have disgraced this process and the US Senate in the orchestrated smear campaign they've run against Judge Kavanaugh. pic.twitter.
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The Lebanese musicians, who have played twice in Byblos in recent years, said they were the target of a smear campaign.
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" She also said Republicans are "bankrupt in the world of ideas and so they have to resort to this smear campaign.
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It's not clear who is behind the smear campaign, although Mr. Viswanathan and Mr. Lau believe it might be a competitor.
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"This is a coordinated smear campaign from far-left lawmakers and radical unelected bureaucrats waging war on the Constitution," Grisham said.
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Porter has denied that he physically assaulted the women, calling the allegations "vile" and "false" and a "smear campaign" against him.
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A year later, Yovanovitch was recalled from Ukraine following what she characterized as a smear campaign by Giuliani, Trump, and others.
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Internally, the whistle-blower allegations were dismissed as a "smear campaign," according to a confidential company report obtained by The Times.
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"This is kind of a victory lap for the left because they took me down with a smear campaign," Moore said.
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Porter resigned on Wednesday while denying the allegations in a statement, calling them part of an organized "smear campaign" against him.
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He filed a police report, and said he and his family were the victims of a smear campaign by Mr. Landry.
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In the face of a malicious smear campaign waged by the president and his allies, she showed professionalism, courage, and patriotism.
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Yovanovitch testified in October about Trump and Giuliani&aposs smear campaign against her in the time leading up to her removal.
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Yovanovitch was abruptly ousted from her post last year following what she and others characterized as a smear campaign against her.
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" And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell went off on Democrats Monday afternoon, accusing them of conducting a "shameful, shameful smear campaign.
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He denied having had sex with underage girls and portrayed himself as a victim of a social media-fueled smear campaign.
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He threatened over the weekend to sue the Post and said the allegations were a smear campaign by his political opponents.
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Trump denied the accusations, accused rival Democrats and the media of a smear campaign, and went on to be elected president.
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National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster has removed several officials from their posts and has himself become the target of a smear campaign.
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Trump denied the allegations, accused rival Democrats and the media of a smear campaign, and went on to win the 2016 election.
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Mutharika, president since 2014, denied the allegations, calling them part of a smear campaign designed to take votes away from the DPP.
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In an interview on Jones's radio show, McAfee called the leak a "smear campaign orchestrated by the US government," and Jones agreed.
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Coates described the allegations as part of a "malicious" smear campaign and a number of prominent former athletes leapt to his defense.
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The alleged smear campaign extended to text messages to other artists, including Lady Gaga, alleging that Dr. Luke had raped Katy Perry.
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This smear campaign cost Sorvino a role in the Lord of the Rings franchise as well as a part in Bad Santa.
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It has previously said it was the target of a smear campaign by opponents who are trying to link it to corruption.
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I plan to focus now on the appropriate ongoing legal actions against those who are unjustly orchestrating the smear campaign against me.
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He also is pursuing a lawsuit against a political opposition research firm that he claims is behind a "smear campaign" against him.
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Kesha's mom did not engage in a smear campaign against famed producer Dr. Luke -- his lawsuit which claimed that has been dismissed.
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But debating Jackson's qualifications in committee and Tester's short-circuiting the process with his McCarthy-like smear campaign are two different things.
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Fairfax vehemently denied the allegations, claiming they were part of "a vicious and coordinated smear campaign" and vowing he would not resign.
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But funding a tasteless, sexist, misogynist, thoroughly shitty online smear campaign is not how a grown-ass man should voice his concerns.
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Maduro's government has consistently paid its debt on time and has slammed market fears of a default as an international smear campaign.
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They forcefully defended Yovanovitch from the "shameful" smear campaign carried out against her by the president and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
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On the DTL website, the founders say they are victims of a smear campaign that "someone paid thousands of dollars" to create.
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A man involved in an alleged smear campaign to oust two top SoftBank executives has ties to Cambridge Analytica, Axios has discovered.
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But, some analysts (and Lagarde herself) felt the charges were part of a smear campaign directed at the potential future French leader.
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Avenatti says the court filing is "part of a smear campaign" and stressed that he doesn't personally owe any of the money.
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But as soon as Mr. Grudinin began to woo away Putin voters, he disappeared from state television except for a smear campaign.
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Macron soon suffered a slump in the polls, prompting his aide Benjamin Griveaux to accuse Russia of a "smear campaign" against him.
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Ahmad declined to comment on the resolution of the dispute, reiterating his view that he was the subject of a smear campaign.
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But others are denouncing him for publishing incendiary claims generated as part of an F.B.I. smear campaign, without offering any corroborating evidence.
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Republicans are embracing an absurd conspiracy theory in which George Soros and the Washington Post are orchestrating a smear campaign against Moore.
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The highly respected career diplomat was abruptly removed from her post after a smear campaign by the President's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
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Still, more say that Kavanaugh did face a "politically motivated smear campaign" (48%) than say he didn't face such an effort (41%).
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Smallwood claimed that Carson contributed to a "smear campaign" against Foster with comments last week, including saying that her claims are unsubstantiated.
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She apologized for some of her controversial remarks, but attributed the onslaught of criticism to a smear campaign originating on the left.
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Mr. Heck denounced what he described as a "smear campaign" against her that had been orchestrated by those in the president's orbit.
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Lauren Elyse, 28, is now alleging her suspension came after a coordinated smear campaign by a young beauty guru and her mother.
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But Mulvaney accused Democrats of a smear campaign against the president and his top aides as the prospect of impeachment rapidly approaches.
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" Hale said Giuliani's offensive against Yovanovitch implied a "roundabout way" for Trump to get rid of the ambassador through a "smear campaign.
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On Wednesday, Sanders' national press secretary said questions about his medical records and his overall health were equivalent to a "smear" campaign.
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Republican senators came into Brett Kavanaugh's testimony Thursday prepared to attack Democrats for orchestrating a smear campaign against their Supreme Court nominee.
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When that failed, the countersuit says, the plaintiffs attempted to create a separate entity — "Hyperloop Two" — and then finally launched a smear campaign.
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In a letter to the board of directors, LaPierre said North had pressed him to resign or be subjected to a smear campaign.
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His defense team had said in a statement that the allegations were "a smear campaign full of lies," CNN affiliate KSWB-TV reported.
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As for Simpson, he was "using all of his media contacts to get a smear campaign going against Magnitsky and myself," Browder said.
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" He went on to say, "These false allegations are part of a smear campaign to disparage me during a divorce and custody battle.
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I was so much younger than them [when the show began], and they used that as a catalyst to launch this smear campaign.
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In that contest, Widodo was buffeted by an online smear campaign that he came from a family of communists and had Chinese ancestry.
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North Carolina, which now faces a federal lawsuit over the law, has been the target of a "vicious, nationwide smear campaign," he said.
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I have never forced myself on anyone ever...It is obvious that a vicious and coordinated smear campaign is being orchestrated against me.
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The narrative of this case mirrors many others; it feels more like a smear campaign against the victim than an attempt at justice.
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" He also went on to say that it is "nauseating" to work for a studio "who'd empower a smear campaign by fascists #cybernazis.
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They believe the report is likely proof of a deliberate and illegal smear campaign by the outgoing Obama administration against the Trump team.
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It is time the myths are called out for what they really are: a smear campaign from people with their own protectionist agenda.
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It has the power to transform pretty much any credible accusation against a man into an unfair—nay, unconstitutional—and unfounded smear campaign.
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She was recalled from Kiev in May after Giuliani and other Trump allies mounted what Democrats have labeled a "smear campaign" against her.
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Republicans have expressed confidence that Kavanaugh will be confirmed, even as they lament what they say is a political smear campaign by Democrats.
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A team of secret agents was accused of running an online smear campaign against Ms. Park's rivals before her election in December 2012.
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In the memo, Mr. Woolley recounted a phone conversation in which Mr. Cavanaugh accused board members of running a "smear campaign" against him.
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"This is outrageous, internally inconsistent, and I hope the U.S. Senate will see this for the smear campaign that it is," he said.
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Mr. Igoshin called the accusation "absurd," suggesting it was part of a smear campaign against him for his work on a procurement law.
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But while Trump said he had lost confidence in her, she said she'd done nothing wrong, and called her ouster a "smear campaign."
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In Mexico's compromised mass media, a smear campaign was directed at the panel of experts, and the government refused to renew its mandate.
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" Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, has all but dismissed Dr. Blasey's claims as false and blamed Democrats for "a choreographed smear campaign.
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"I am the target of a well-coordinated and financed smear campaign," he said last month in a text message to The Times.
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The president's critics, they say, are once again engaging in a smear campaign to declare him guilty before all the evidence is out.
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Yovanovitch was ousted after Trump and Giuliani, carried out a smear campaign against her based on false allegations that she was anti-Trump.
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That material and other negative information was distributed to journalists as part of a smear campaign against the company, according to the complaint.
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Ms. Sarsour and her defenders have dismissed all of this as a smear campaign coordinated by the far right and motivated by Islamophobia.
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Yovanovitch testified in the House impeachment inquiry that she was subject to a smear campaign to get her thrown out of her post.
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Mr. Trump fired Ms. Yovanovitch as ambassador earlier this year, after she had become the target of a smear campaign by Mr. Giuliani.
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She also told the FBI that Ford's allies pressured her and threatened a smear campaign if she didn't back up her former classmate.
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Pompliano is suing the company for trying to "destroy his career and reputation by waging a smear campaign" against him following his departure.
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Lindsey Graham how being accused of racism made him feel, Sessions cast his younger self as the naive victim of a ruthless smear campaign.
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In November, Ruzylo stepped down from her position, claiming that a member of Bexhill and Battle CLP had organized a smear campaign against her.
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The White House has so far denied allegations against Kavanaugh and insisted the claims are a targeted smear campaign against the Supreme Court nominee.
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Take Folks like Travis Alabanza, who was subjected to a smear campaign for trying to use Topshop changing rooms as a gender-nonconforming person.
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Furthermore, a majority of this group believes that the allegations are the result of a smear campaign cooked up by Democrats and the media.
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In response, fans have sought their own form of counter-programming as the hashtag #MJInnocent became a safeguard against Leaving Neverland's perceived smear campaign.
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Pressuring a player to waive a NTC by waging a smear campaign in the media, or even sending them home or to the pressbox?
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Kavanaugh and his Republican allies portrayed the allegations as part of a "smear campaign" by Democrats who have fought his nomination from the outset.
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Keefe is using a fake Quinn account to propel the Keane smear campaign, a move that makes things a little too personal for Dar.
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TMZ broke the story ... the music producer claimed in a 2014 lawsuit that Pebe Sebert orchestrated a smear campaign of sexual lies against him.
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The vote marks a key victory for Republicans, whose base rallied around Kavanaugh, believing the judge was the victim of a partisan smear campaign.
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" Fairfax issued a statement denying the allegations, claiming they were part of "a vicious and coordinated smear campaign" and vowing, "I will not resign.
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The mullahs' lobbies on both sides of the Atlantic have launched a smear campaign against these figures, and yet they have maintained their positions.
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The documents released by the State Department show Pompeo&aposs hand in facilitating Giuliani&aposs smear campaign that Yovanovitch alleged during her damning testimony.
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She gave riveting and at times emotional testimony last week describing the "smear campaign" that Trump and Giuliani carried out to engineer her removal.
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Arista, which was formed by former Cisco employees, has denied the allegations and accused Cisco of a smear campaign and trying to stifle competition.
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Planned Parenthood said the months-long investigation into Daleiden and CMP revealed a "video smear campaign" organized by a network of anti-abortion extremists.
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After his arrest, state news outlets began a smear campaign, accusing him of hiring prostitutes, stealing from workers and conspiring with hostile foreign forces.
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Mr. McCrory accused Mr. Cooper and other critics, including the White House, of taking part in a "vicious nationwide smear campaign" against his state.
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The anti-abortion activist behind the elaborate smear campaign against Planned Parenthood, David Daleiden, turned himself in this morning at 9:45 AM (EST).
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Donald J. Trump is President-elect in spite of a relentless smear campaign and an attempt to caricature him as a racist, anti-Semite.
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He later proclaimed his innocence and sought to cast blame on political rivals and the news media for what he called a smear campaign.
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You could be the target of an online smear campaign by a girl who's mad that you wore the same sunglasses to a party.
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But in a tweet, the former vice president once again suggested that the attacks on his son were part of a political smear campaign.
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Trump fired Marie Yovanovitch, the American ambassador to Ukraine who focused on anticorruption, after his attorney Rudy Giuliani organized a smear campaign against her.
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Mr. Bannon's latest woes stem from suspicions, which he denies, that he has orchestrated a smear campaign against the national security adviser, Lt. Gen.
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At that point, the House had already begun its inquiry into Trump's dealings with Ukraine, which encompassed the right-wing smear campaign against Yovanovitch.
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"Most of these guys are honest working guys," he said, accusing the police and politicians of running "a smear campaign" against people like him.
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In the Monday radio interview, Trump derided Drake as the latest example of a smear campaign designed to hurt his standing with female voters.
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Yovanovitch was recalled from the US Embassy in Ukraine in May following a targeted smear campaign amplified by the President's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
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It blamed a smear campaign by the mainstream media, and said it will be up again once it transitions to a new hosting provider.
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Governor Shohrat Zakir also hit out at Western criticism of the camps and said the United States had launched a smear campaign against Xinjiang.
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She and others also claimed that a smear campaign prompted by Giuliani and others pushing these investigations damaged her reputation and hastened her removal.
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Partly that's because it casts him as both a strong leader and a victim of a smear campaign painting him as a Russian pawn.
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"I plan to focus now on the appropriate ongoing legal actions against those who are unjustly orchestrating the smear campaign against me," Pishevar said.
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Less than a month after his release, Stanley launched another smear campaign online against the same firm from his halfway house, according to court documents.
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Gatorade's gettin' some Hater-ade from the State of California -- which is suing the energy drink company for a star-studded smear campaign against water.
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Bogolyubov gave notice this month that he might seek compensation for what he called an "unlawful expropriation", and accused the authorities of a smear campaign.
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"I have been transparent and truthful about these vile claims, but I will not further engage publicly with a coordinated smear campaign," the statement read.
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It says it has been a victim of a smear campaign by political opponents and is "certain that our name will be cleared very soon".
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Kavanaugh and his Republican allies have framed the allegations as part of a "smear campaign" by Democrats who have opposed his nomination from the beginning.
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"My work for Mr. Deripaska did not involve representing Russian political interests," he said, adding suggestions otherwise are part of a "smear campaign" against him.
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He filed a lawsuit against a U.S. political opposition research firm, Definers Public Affairs, claiming the company is engaging in a smear campaign against him.
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" On the other hand, the lawyers blast Kesha for engaging in "trial by Twitter," engaging in an unsupported, "vicious smear campaign to ruin Luke's reputation.
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"I have been transparent and truthful about these vile claims, but I will not further engage publicly with a coordinated smear campaign," the statement continued.
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He denied them and said they were part of a smear campaign to derail his ambitions to become party leader, according to local media reports.
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Kent testified that there was a "ubiquitous" smear campaign against the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine earlier that surfaced on Fox News and the internet.
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An internal investigation detailed a smear campaign against a career employee after an article in conservative media questioned why she was working on Iran policy.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden's presidential campaign accused The New York Times on Wednesday night of "actively participating" in a "smear campaign" against the candidate.
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Sanders's campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, doubled down on Thursday by accusing her team of running a "smear campaign" and defending his boss's pushback as justified.
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Bogolyubov gave notice this month that he may seek compensation for what he called an "unlawful expropriation", and accused the authorities of a smear campaign.
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The California Democrat went on to detail the smear campaign that Giuliani and his Ukrainian associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, carried out against her.
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One their attorneys threatened "a smear campaign" if Papa John's didn't pay up, Schnatter said, adding that the company ultimately paid Laundry Service $2.5 million.
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Asked if Yovanovich was the target of a smear campaign by his allies, Trump pivoted on Monday to criticism of the former ambassador to Ukraine.
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At the same time, looking back at the smear campaign against the Clintons shows we can't treat the feminist injunction to "believe women" as absolute.
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At the same time, looking back at the smear campaign against the Clintons shows we can't treat the feminist injunction to 'believe women' as absolute.
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He also alleges Tesla waged a smear campaign against him in order to silence his claims of poor part quality and waste at the company.
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The firm said it had "indications" that all the rumors of a hack were part of a "paid commercial smear campaign" to harm its business.
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Surviving a political smear campaign that implied he was an impious Muslim, Mr. Joko appears to have won a second term in this month's elections.
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Democrats performed so outlandishly in their "smear campaign" against Mr. Trump, Mr. Scalise said, that they owed the American people an apology for misleading them.
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It appears to offer ammunition to both sides, confirming Trump's proximity to Giuliani associates who later orchestrated the smear campaign that led to Yovanovitch's removal.
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Mr. Mattis's guide was a German officer who has been a target of an online smear campaign that is thought to have originated in Russia.
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One of Giuliani&aposs associates, Lev Parnas has said that he was involved in both the smear campaign and the pressure campaign against President Zelensky.
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As Ms. Yovanovitch testified about the smear campaign against her, Mr. Trump weighed in from the White House as though eager to confirm her story.
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"It reveals a clear paper trail from Rudy Giuliani to the Oval Office to Secretary Pompeo to facilitate Giuliani's smear campaign against a U.S. ambassador."
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Trump abruptly recalled the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, amid a smear campaign by the president's allies to portray her as disloyal to Trump.
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"In this way, Goldsmith creates the greatest poem of the 21st century, an anti-monument to the folly of Trump's heinous smear campaign against Clinton."
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"In this way, Goldsmith creates the greatest poem of the 21st century, an anti-monument to the folly of Trump's heinous smear campaign against Clinton."
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A veteran diplomat, Mr. Hale will be pressed on the agency's decision to recall the ambassador to Ukraine after a concerted smear campaign against her.
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I'm angry that Scientology found his personal weak spots and got him on board not with their beliefs but with their smear campaign against me.
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In their view, Trump — like Kavanaugh — is merely the victim of a smear campaign: guilty of nothing and targeted only because of ideology and politics.
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" White House spokesperson Kerri Kupec called the accusation "the latest in a coordinated smear campaign by the Democrats designed to tear down a good man.
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White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said there was no quid pro quo, claiming Trump is the victim of a "coordinated smear campaign" by Democrats.
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In a news release, Senator Bolsonaro claimed that the women were hired by someone else and that he was the victim of a smear campaign.
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During the 2014 presidential elections, a smear campaign claimed variously that he was the child of Indonesian Communist Party members, of Chinese descent, and a Christian.
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But for me the worst smear campaign began after the Independence, when the Creoles took charge of history and decided to continue committing the same injustices.
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Luke has long denied the accusations, claiming they are an extortion plot and smear campaign to get Kesha released from her multi-record deal with him.
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In previous stories about his case, Balakrishnan has denied all wrongdoing, and his lawyers said he was a victim of an anonymous smear campaign on campus.
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Poland's deputy justice minister resigned amid claims that he had aided a smear campaign against judges deemed insufficiently loyal to the ruling Law and Justice party.
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Yovanovitch, who served as the top US diplomat in Kiev until May, was recalled from her post following a smear campaign led by Giuliani and others.
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Sullivan also revealed that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had sought to push back on the smear campaign against Yovanovitch led by Giuliani and his allies.
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That is, every smear campaign with rumour-mongering and discord-sowing will only whittle down further his credibility and that of his country, the United States.
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He said anything else I'd heard about his behavior was part of a political smear campaign that, as his friend, I must help defend him against.
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In 2017, he launched a similar smear campaign against MSNBC contributor Sam Seder over a sarcastic tweet Seder had posted regarding Roman Polanski back in 53.
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That is, every smear campaign with rumor-mongering and discord-sowing will only whittle down further his credibility and that of his country, the United States.
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"My work for Mr. Deripaska did not involve representing Russian political interests," he said, adding that suggestions to the contrary are a "smear campaign" against him.
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Of course, his extensive resume and honorable character were not enough to prevent some Democrats from engaging in a partisan smear campaign, including Indiana's own Sen.
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Fairfax has denied the allegations, saying they were part of a "smear campaign" against him, and dismissed calls to resign from both state and national Democrats.
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It may also serve as a rallying cry for the anti-secrecy advocate's supporters, who have framed him as the target of an international smear campaign.
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The White House and Senate Republicans continue to support Kavanaugh despite the allegations, which they have cast as part of a "smear campaign" against the judge.
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Peter Bruce, a South African journalist who had called the Guptas corrupt, became the subject of a smear campaign claiming that he'd cheated on his wife.
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At the very least, it'll make it harder for Trump and his team to pass off the investigation as a Clinton- or Democrat-led smear campaign.
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Fujimori, the 40-year-old daughter of imprisoned ex-president Alberto Fujimori, has denied any wrongdoing and portrayed herself as the victim of a smear campaign.
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"The president&aposs personal assistant makes that connection happen," Evers said in an interview with MSNBC, referring to Trump&aposs tie-in on the smear campaign.
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They forcefully defended former US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch from the "shameful" smear campaign carried out against her by the president and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
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Yovanovitch testified in her opening statement that she was the subject of a smear campaign by Trump and his allies that led to her eventual removal.
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Saudi authorities and government-aligned media launched a smear campaign over the weekend to discredit the activists as "traitors," who were undermining the country's social fabric.
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"This small group of detractors used this staged 'event' to initiate a smear campaign on social media during the conference and immediately after," the lawsuit asserts.
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" Ms. Nixon, who is not Jewish but is raising two Jewish children, continued to ask for more information about what she has called a "smear campaign.
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My involvement in the civil initiatives around Kurdish and Armenian questions, and a smear campaign against me by certain media organizations, might have facilitated my framing.
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WASHINGTON — Enemies from within have launched a "deep-state" smear campaign, news organizations are acting with ulterior motives, and the worst attacks are yet to come.
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The closest analogue is the monster of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," who, before Hollywood's smear campaign, was a Romantic inspired by the virtuous deeds recounted in Plutarch.
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Two days later, Marie Yovanovitch, who was pushed out as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine after a smear campaign backed by Trump, is slated to testify.
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Yovanovitch, who testified during President Donald Trump&aposs impeachment inquiry, was abruptly recalled from her position in May after what she described as a smear campaign.
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The consultant, who had worked for Omar in the past, according to the Post, reportedly denied this — charging the accusation was part of a smear campaign.
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On Twitter on Friday, Kelly&aposs official account started tweeting that she was the victim of an online smear campaign that portrayed her as anti-Semitic.
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Hale also described his offer to Yovanovitch to extend her tour in Ukraine, which came just weeks before the smear campaign erupted to an untenable degree.
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Mr. Moon's party sued the blogger, accusing him of introducing an illegal smear campaign — but the subsequent investigation revealed his earlier activities on Mr. Moon's behalf.
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Mr. Page, in a statement, called the memo "a smear campaign" by Democrats that only made it more important that the underlying applications be released publicly.
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" Affleck went on to call the controversy "a f—— ridiculous smear campaign," saying that Goodell "doesn't have the integrity to say 'This is stupid – I was wrong.
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Gallagher has pleaded not guilty, and a statement released by his defense team called the allegations "a smear campaign full of lies," CNN affiliate KSWB-TV reported.
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Kavanaugh angrily denounced the allegations as part of a coordinated smear campaign, and also broke into tears while describing the impact on his reputation and his family.
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Moore, who said on Sunday he was facing a "smear campaign," has come under fire for comments about women and his out-of-the-mainstream economic views.
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"If they try to come after my client or engage in some smear campaign, they better pack a lunch because we're going to respond twofold," he said.
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In a statement regarding the incident, he didn't apologize, instead writing that the photo was spread by one of his political opponents in a "smear campaign" effort.
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Putilov told BuzzFeed News he was the victim of an unfair "smear campaign" because of his Russian roots, and denied being an operative for the Russian government.
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House lawmakers have already heard from Yovanovitch, who Trump had removed from her post after a politically motivated smear campaign led by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
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PDVSA last month denounced what it called an international smear campaign by opponents to link alleged wrongful acts committed by Venezuelan citizens and businesses to the company.
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The big picture: Originally, Fairfax called the allegation a smear campaign and questioned the timing of its release in the immediate aftermath of the scandal involving Gov.
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Hours later, The Daily Beast outed the Medium post as part of an anti-Buttigieg smear campaign by pro-Trump con artists Jacob Wohl and Jake Berkman.
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Luke has long denied the accusations, claiming the allegations are an extortion plot and smear campaign to get Kesha released from her multi-record deal with Luke.
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Charges for the reported London incident were later dropped and Pishevar, through his lawyer, has said the other claims were part of a "smear campaign" against him.
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Now, the monk's kicking back against his dissenters, claiming that the footage was released by someone from Tongshan Temple as part of a smear campaign against him.
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The communications ministry has said Wikipedia was attempting to run a "smear campaign" against the country, saying some articles purported that Ankara was coordinating with militant groups.
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The announcement led to wide media criticism due to McCarthy's vaccine beliefs, though she believes that it all part of a smear campaign from one, unnamed group.
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Hof has denied those allegations and says they are part of a smear campaign against him, and prosecutors did not pursue charges, citing the statute of limitations.
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Hale agreed that Yovanovitch is a "dedicated and courageous patriot" and that she served with dignity and grace in the face of the president&aposs "smear campaign."
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Yovanovitch was abruptly recalled from her position in May after what she characterized as a smear campaign against her by Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
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Yovanovitch took aim at Trump and Giuliani and said they carried out a "smear campaign" to oust her because she refused to help them strong-arm Ukraine.
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Moore, a conservative commentator whom Trump had floated for the Fed position for weeks, blamed a left-wing "smear campaign" for the demise of his potential appointment.
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But Yovanovitch didn't bite and insisted the State Department, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, were well aware of Giuliani and his associates' smear campaign against her.
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PDVSA in December denounced what it called an international smear campaign by opponents to link alleged wrongful acts committed by Venezuelan citizens and businesses to the company.
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In one email, the DNC's chief financial officer wonders whether launching a smear campaign against Sanders' alleged atheism could hurt his chances in the southern state primaries.
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In January, then President-elect Trump unearthed that old Gestapo comparison, accusing the Bureau, and America's spy agencies, of orchestrating a Nazi-like smear campaign against him.
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However, there are other indications that Trump might instead attempt to change the subject back to jobs and characterize the leak as a smear campaign against him.
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He also testified that there's no evidence to support Giuliani's smear campaign against Masha Yovanovitch, the US's former ambassador to Ukraine who was abruptly ousted in May.
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Caracas-based PDVSA had initially described the case as part of a wider U.S.-led conspiracy and "smear campaign" against socialism in Venezuela, a member of OPEC.
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A smear campaign in South Carolina claimed that Mr. McCain's adopted Bangladeshi daughter, Bridget, was the product of an extramarital affair between him and a black woman.
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But the B.J.P., which says the party is inclusive, denied its supporters were behind the attacks and dismissed the accusations as part of a political smear campaign.
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Sheng Xue has been the victim of a relentless smear campaign that experts say has all the markings of a coordinated attack by the Chinese Communist Party.
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Group calling app Houseparty says rumors it's been hacked are a paid smear campaign, and the company is offering $1 million to anyone able to prove it.
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A smear campaign The fake animation also found new life on 4chan "politically incorrect" board (abbreviated as /pol/), as part of a campaign aimed at discrediting Gonzalez.
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"The Times noted that Giuliani&aposs claims about Yovanovitch, characterized as a smear campaign during the impeachment hearings into Trump, were "unsubstantiated" or "taken out of context.
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Lutsenko, Giuliani, Fruman, Parnas and others who would come to include the president's own son, Don Jr., promoted a smear campaign against her based on false allegations.
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Yovanovitch, who testified during President Donald Trump&aposs impeachment inquiry, was abruptly recalled from her position in May after she what she characterized as a smear campaign.
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" "I challenge you, Leader McConnell, if you are so convinced this is a smear campaign, you'll have no problem with an FBI investigation to prove your case.
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"This 35-year-old, uncorroborated claim is the latest in a coordinated smear campaign by the Democrats designed to tear down a good man," the statement said.
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" In a separate statement, Graham stated, "This is outrageous, internally inconsistent, and I hope the US Senate will see this for the smear campaign that it is.
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Under Secretary Hale was witness to the smear campaign against Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, and the efforts by some in the State Department to help her.
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That includes several calls the very same day that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, the target of a smear campaign Giuliani ran, was recalled from her post.
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Democratic leaders have not directly addressed the circumstances of Hill's resignation or the smear campaign against her to the full caucus since Hill made her resignation announcement.
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Yovanovitch and a slew of career diplomats and foreign-service officers testified that Giuliani embarked on a "smear campaign" against her when she stood in his way.
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He later sued Definers Public Affairs, a political opposition research firm, alleging that it was conducting a "smear campaign" against him by spreading misinformation about the incident.
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But like Segalov, there are many in the Labour Party who strongly disagree with the idea that the accusations of anti-Semitism are merely a political smear campaign.
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At least six people were detained last week, and over the weekend state media branded them "traitors" in what Amnesty International dubbed a "chilling smear campaign" against them.
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The background: Last year, Islamist groups spearheaded a smear campaign and massive rallies to unseat Jakarta's Christian, ethnic Chinese governor, who eventually wound up in jail for blasphemy.
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Csontos said he believed the Hungarian government's smear campaign against Soros and his philanthropic work had helped pave the way for the far-right attacks on the center.
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Katie Hill's career is the initial casualty of a smear campaign by far right pundits, she isn't their ultimate target -- and sadly, their campaign is far from over.
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" In a statement, the White House said the "uncorroborated claim is the latest in a coordinated smear campaign by the Democrats designed to tear down a good man.
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Del Pino said the plan had been subjected to a "smear campaign" Socialist-led Venezuela frequently accuses Wall Street and businesses of seeking to sabotage its leftist administration.
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The Kremlin has also spoken of a smear campaign in recent months against Putin ahead of legislative elections in September and presidential elections in 2018, according to reports.
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Pishevar, who has claimed that he is the victim of a "smear campaign," sued a GOP opposition research firm called Definers Public Affairs earlier this month for defamation.
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And just this week, Wohl attempted to launch a smear campaign against presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg using false allegations of sexual assault, a campaign that collapsed almost immediately.
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White House officials claimed allegations of domestic abuse against Rob Porter were part of a "smear campaign" organized by Corey Lewandowski when they sought a statement from Sen.
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Schumer may be endeavoring here to draw attention to the smear campaign so that Republicans in Congress and at the White House feel pressure to affirm Mueller's independence.
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She said she was threatened by one of the businessman's associates early this year with a smear campaign featuring a sex tape illegally filmed in her own bedroom.
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This has clearly affected the decisions of Senate Democrats, who even before these allegations engaged in a shameless and self-parodying smear campaign of Kavanaugh during the hearings.
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He told the AP suggestions that he has ties to Russian intelligence are part of a "smear campaign" against him, adding that he wasn't trained as a spy.
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The group also launched a smear campaign against public scientists who research genetic engineering and journalists who have written favorably about the technology (including the NYT's Amy Harmon).
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She said his health was deteriorating, and that he was a victim of a US government-led "smear campaign" and "propaganda," a claim that she has echoed before.
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Trump loyalists launched a smear campaign against Vindman when it became clear he would hurt Trump's defenseVindman's journey to the White House began with a quintessential immigrant story.
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North Korea blasted a U.S. complaint alleging the country was behind several global cyberattacks, calling the charges a "smear campaign" that could undermine talks between the two countries.
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The name may not ring a bell to your average fan, but Minaj alleges that Azoff, who manages Travis Scott, started a smear campaign against her NickiHndrxx Tour.
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Hill has accused her husband, who has not responded to CNN's repeated requests for comment, of orchestrating a smear campaign against her in the midst of divorce proceedings.
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He has denied knowing of any abuse, and some on the right have come to his defense by suggesting that he is the subject of a smear campaign.
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In an interview with Gayle King, that was parodied on "Saturday Night Live," Mr. Kelly portrayed himself as the victim of a smear campaign fueled by social media.
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Mr. Garrow has detailed — and been highly critical of — the F.B.I.'s surveillance and smear campaign against Dr. King, pictured above leaving F.B.I. headquarters in Washington in 1964.
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"This is a smear campaign against our community and what it stands for," said David Niederman, a rabbi and the president of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg.
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Group calling app Houseparty says rumors it's been hacked are a "smear campaign" and that it will offer up to $1 million to anyone who can supply proof.
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An anonymous writer begins a smear campaign against a young doctor (Pierre Fresnay) by sending letters to hundreds of French villagers in this drama by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
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The former, Russia-aligned government had prosecuted and imprisoned her in 2011, and Mr. Yanukovych's political consultant, Paul Manafort, orchestrated a yearslong and costly smear campaign against her.
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But there is one major difference: Dr. Blasey seems adamant about exerting control over the situation — perhaps to avoid the kind of public smear campaign Professor Hill endured.
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Yovanovitch testified before Congress last November that Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani conducted a "smear campaign" against her, and she lambasted the State Department for not protecting her.
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Yovanovitch emerged as a key witness in Trump&aposs impeachment inquiry after testifying she was the target of a smear campaign amid Trump&aposs shadow diplomacy in Ukraine.
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Yovanovitch, who was recalled from her post in Kiev in May 2019 after a smear campaign led by Trump's allies, has been repeatedly maligned by the US President.
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Pompeo's silence about Yovanovitch extends beyond this week's developments to as far back as the smear campaign against her led by Giuliani and his allies in March 2019.
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She said that his comments about Giuliani were made in relation to what Hill described as a "smear campaign" launched against former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.
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For Wolff and all the Trump haters who buy his book and endorse what is, in practice, a smear campaign, the philosophy is crystal clear: Facts don't matter.
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Yovanovitch was removed from her role in May after a smear campaign said to have been carried out by Giuliani, his conservative media allies, and former Ukrainian officials.
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Yovanovitch, who also testified in connection with the impeachment proceedings, was told Trump lost confidence in her after she endured a smear campaign from Giuliani and his allies.
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Congressional Democrats, meanwhile, have launched an all-out smear campaign, callously misrepresenting Price's financial disclosures to insinuate he's done something wrong, despite providing zero evidence that's the case.
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The New Yorker published a long profile of Yuriy Lutsenko, Ukraine's recently fired prosecutor general who has helped wage a smear campaign with Rudy Giuliani against the Bidens.
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The House investigation showed how Giuliani and his co-conspirators waged a smear campaign to remove Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, from her post in Kyiv.
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Rivalry between Virgin Atlantic and BA dates back more than 20 years to the so-called dirty tricks affair, when Virgin accused BA of conducting a smear campaign.
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Trump blocked for Kavanaugh Monday in New York, helping pivot Republicans to a new strategy of dismissing the allegations as part of a smear campaign orchestrated by Democrats.
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" At one point, far along into the call, Kavanaugh said he was facing a "smear campaign" and suggested newly revealed allegations were "just absurd and outrageous, coordinated perhaps.
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But her fate is a sort of prologue to the story since she is viewed as the victim of a smear campaign from Giuliani and his Ukrainian allies.
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Despite this, it is important the public understands the full nature of the person who continues to be the subject of a political smear campaign by the President.
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Trump needs to understand that this smear campaign is unacceptable, and he needs to know that if he acts to further obstruct justice, he will be held accountable.
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She described how she had been the target of a smear campaign orchestrated by Rudolph Giuliani, Mr. Trump's personal lawyer, that would push her out of her job.
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But Chalupa says her part of the story has been magnified and distorted to the point that it's little more than a smear campaign initially disseminated by Russia.
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Hill denied the claims but said she was resigning due to an unrelenting smear campaign that included the publication of several nude photos of Hill without her consent.
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Yovanovitch was recalled from her post in May, months before her tenure was expected to end and under pressure from a smear campaign by close associates of Trump.
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One fireside storyteller discusses the origins of a smear campaign against Pinelands residents in the early days of American eugenics, which branded them as inbred and intellectually bereft.
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A source close to the singer, however, says Shakira believes she is innocent and the prosecutor is using the case as a "smear campaign," to target a successful artist.
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Not only was Trump safe from Democrats reaching the supermajority vote needed for his removal, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell prevented the Schiff circus from continuing its smear campaign.
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"There's no denying that the smear campaign launched by the defendants has put abortion providers at risk," National Abortion Federation president Vicki Saporta, told BuzzFeed News in a statement.
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Akhmetshin told the AP that his rumored ongoing ties to Russian intelligence agencies was a "smear campaign," but confirmed he served in a Soviet military unit affiliated with counterintelligence.
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"I am happy to take the fight to those who have tried to use a smear campaign, not arguments, to prop up their failing case," Soros told the Guardian.
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Duterte also launched an aggressive smear campaign against de Lima before her demotion on Monday, accusing her of sexual escapades, links to drug lords and bribery, local media reported.
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And they attempted to cast those allegations as part of an unfounded smear campaign, which Sessions and his colleagues repeatedly referred to as a "caricature" of his actual beliefs.
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Bret Grote, Ciccariello-Maher's lawyer, said Drexel's criticism was in response to an online smear campaign by far rightists emboldened by the election of Republican Donald Trump as president.
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McCain allies suspected Bush's top political strategist Karl Rove of orchestrating a smear campaign by spreading rumors related to the race of McCain's adopted daughter, who is from Bangladesh.
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Day 2, Friday, November 15 : Marie Yovanovitch said she was ousted from her job as the ambassador to Ukraine in a "smear campaign" while Trump attacked her on Twitter.
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During the second day of public impeachment hearings, former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch claimed she was a target of a "smear campaign" orchestrated by Giuliani and Trump.
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Since the moment Mr. Farr was nominated, he has been the subject of a coordinated and viciously dishonest smear campaign from the far-left designed to tank his confirmation.
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Hill and Holmes forcefully defended Marie Yovanovitch, the US&aposs ambassador to Ukraine who was abruptly ousted in May after a "smear campaign" against her by Trump and Giuliani.
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As Yovanovitch testified about what she called a "smear campaign" that led to her abrupt ousting last May, Trump lobbed attacks at the 30-year veteran diplomat on Twitter.Rep.
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As Yovanovitch testified about what she called a "smear campaign" that led to her abrupt ousting last May, Trump lobbed attacks at the 30-year veteran diplomat on Twitter.
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Over the course of Friday morning and afternoon, Yovanovitch gave measured but highly compelling testimony recounting her being subject to a smear campaign and pushed out of her position.
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Mr. Strache was further helped by a social media scandal worthy of a political mini-series, in which the Socialists were accused of a smear campaign against Mr. Kurz.
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Republicans vowed to do it themselves, pushed ahead and within a day used Ms. Swetnick's claims to accuse Democrats of conspiring in a smear campaign to derail the nomination.
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Cosby's lawyers are asking a judge to dismiss his defamation case against the supermodel ... in which he claims she went on a smear campaign to make herself relevant again.
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Moore supporters who did speak out dismissed the allegations as a Democratic plot or smear campaign, and questioned the timing of the report weeks ahead of the special election.
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Bernie Sanders' national press secretary on Wednesday distorted Michael Bloomberg's past heart issues and called questions about the Vermont senator's health and requests for additional records a "smear" campaign.
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His national spokeswoman likened questions to a "smear campaign," before falsely claiming that Mr. Bloomberg, who had two stents implanted back in 2000, had also had a heart attack.
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Yovanovitch was abruptly recalled from her position last year after Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, subjected her to what she and other witnesses characterized as a smear campaign.
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Reeker testified that he sought to protect former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch from a smear campaign led by President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, per the New York Times.
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Marie Yovanovitch was the American ambassador to Ukraine until May, when she was removed by President Trump after a smear campaign orchestrated by Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer.
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Yovanovitch, who retired last week, was forced out of her her post in Kiev following a targeted smear campaign driven by Trump allies, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
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The company, May says, was the victim of a smear campaign mounted by the union, and the company has faced hurdles because some government officials run their own schools.
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Rubin tweeted that the story contained "numerous inaccuracies" about his employment at Google and "wild exaggerations" about his compensation, and said the allegations were part of a smear campaign.
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Ilmars Rimsevics has dismissed the allegations and said he is the victim of a smear campaign, while the Ministry of Defense has suggested that disinformation may be to blame.
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Moore has consistently denied the allegations against him from multiple women of sexual misconduct and accused his Democratic rival, Doug Jones, and the media of running a smear campaign.
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The No. 3 official at the State Department, he testified privately earlier this month that he had advocated for Yovanovitch as Giuliani was orchestrating a smear campaign against her.
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How the information was handled by Democrats is now a key point of controversy as the GOP contends that it amounts to an orchestrated smear campaign against Trump's nominee.
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The union's strategy may be fatally flawed in Mississippi but the national and global smear campaign may be used to pressure Nissan in areas where corporate campaigns are legal.
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But the pair of Stanford computer science grads got knocked off the charts by a vicious rumor that their app helped kidnappers, which they call a purposeful smear campaign.
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He looks forward to having a public forum in the court system to clear his name from the smear campaign that had been waged against him in the media.
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Matt Gaetz, defended her after the leaked photos, saying the California Democrat was the victim of "revenge porn" and a political smear campaign at the hands of her husband.
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As the criticism of Omar mounts, it becomes that much easier for her to seem like the victim of a smear campaign, rather than the instigator of a smear.
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Since then, Trump has been attempting to defend himself, launching a smear campaign against Machado, calling her "disgusting," citing an alleged sex tape, and noting she has a "terrible" past.
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Maybe that's what Republicans want; maybe some of their leeriness is warranted; maybe there is some place between smear campaign and smoking gun where reasonable people can be reasonably apprehensive.
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Gordhan has repeatedly said an investigation into a surveillance unit set up at the revenue service when he headed the agency was a smear campaign aimed at tarnishing his credibility.
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"This is kind of a victory lap for the left because they took me down with a smear campaign," Moore said in an interview with Fox Business Network on Thursday.
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Planned Parenthood has since sued those anti-abortion activists, claiming the videos they released were deceitful and were obtained by criminal means for the purpose of starting a smear campaign.
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Embattled Silicon Valley investor Shervin Pishevar is seeking to dismiss his lawsuit against a Republican-driven political opposition firm that he previously alleged had conducted a "smear campaign" against him.
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Their defense of Omar is the latest step in an effort to defend the first-term Democrat from what is being increasingly described by liberals as an Islamophobic smear campaign.
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Trump, whose inauguration and first anniversary as president were met with nationwide women's protests, denies accusations of sexual misconduct and accuses rival Democrats and the media of a smear campaign.
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Through a spokesman, Pishevar provided the following comment: "Shervin Pishevar is the victim of an organized smear campaign, which so far has involved the fabrication of a London "police report.
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He has denied the charges, insisting he is the victim of a smear campaign, while his lawyers have said they want restrictions on his freedom to travel and work lifted.
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Former Fox News anchor Laurie Dhue has filed a defamation lawsuit against former network star Bill O'Reilly, accusing the 68-year-old host of mounting a "smear campaign" against her.
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But Yovanovitch added a sympathetic note to that message, telling lawmakers — at times with wet eyes — how profoundly she was affected by the smear campaign emanating from the White House.
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In the lawsuit, the group accused Ackerman McQueen, its longtime advertising firm, of breaching its contract by orchestrating a smear campaign against the N.R.A. and its chief executive, Wayne LaPierre.
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Already Republican leaders seem eager to confirm Kavanaugh and move on; they've spent the past week saying the allegations are part of a Democratic "smear campaign" and defending Kavanaugh's character.
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But the president made it clear that he believed his nominee and considered the allegations against the judge as part of a smear campaign hatched by Democrats, not credible charges.
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Next up, the House manager said that Giuliani led us smear campaign against the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch to get her removed as part of the president's scheme.
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The attempt by Democrats to run a professional smear campaign against Brett Kavanaugh is another sign of the irreparable fissure that has cracked open between the political left and right.
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Some officials have also accused union leaders of harbouring the Islamist opposition's political agenda, a charge which the teachers union denies and says was part of a government smear campaign.
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The documents show a clear paper trail from Rudy Giuliani to the Oval Office to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to facilitate the smear campaign against U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.
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Republican lawmakers and conservative commentators welcomed Lorance back — not as a convict who&aposd redeemed himself, but as a victim of a smear campaign by the US military and progressives.
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Some officials have also accused union leaders of harboring the Islamist opposition's political agenda, a charge which the teachers union denies and says was part of a government smear campaign.
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In an email to a handful of NBC News colleagues on Friday, Brokaw said that he had been "ambushed" by a public smear campaign and called Vester's credibility into question.
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Mr. Moon ran for president in 2012, losing narrowly to Ms. Park, which his supporters say was partly because of a clandestine smear campaign by the government's main intelligence agency.
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On Twitter, #WomenWhoVoteTrump was the top trending hashtag for most of Friday, with hundreds of photos and personal accounts of women fed up with the smear campaign against Donald Trump.
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Mr. Morton did not respond to multiple requests for comment, although he said on YouTube last fall that The New York Times was conducting a "massive smear campaign" against him.
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Within hours, the fake allegation against the South Bend, Indiana mayor and Democratic presidential candidate would begin to crumble, and the real story -- the story of the smear campaign -- would emerge.
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He noted that he is going to focus on the defamation lawsuit he filed against Definers Public Affairs, the organization Pishevar has claimed is responsible for a "smear campaign" against him.
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"This smear campaign will not get in the way of the work I am doing every day to move our district and our country forward," Hill said in a public statement.
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Manafort confirmed to the AP that he worked for Deripaska in various countries, but said the work was being unfairly cast as "inappropriate or nefarious" as part of a "smear campaign."
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They sponsored an essay contest that invited students to think critically about hate speech; parents sabotaged it through a smear campaign accusing Kalkaska for Peace of "indoctrinating" children with liberal ideas.
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Yet in his 2000 race, McCain is still irked by the smear campaign launched by operatives tied to George W. Bush contending that the Arizona senator fathered an African-American child.
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He originally attributed the blind cc to "email problems," then later said he didn't remember the specific email, and regarded questions about his emails to tobacco executives as a smear campaign.
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She told the Washington Post that he engaged in a "smear campaign built around cyber exploitation" and that he enlisted "hateful political operatives" to help — and that is important to note.
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The billionaire financier responded to a "smear campaign" against his financial support for a push to stop the UK from leaving the EU by pledging another $2118,523 to the cause Sunday.
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The billionaire financier responded to a "smear campaign" against his financial support for a push to stop the UK from leaving the EU by pledging another $139,000 to the cause Sunday.
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As many of you may have seen in recent news coverage, I filed a lawsuit last month against what I believe to be potential perpetrators of a smear campaign against me.
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Now, a White House-backed special interest group has a launched a million-dollar smear campaign against Heller who's already in a sticky situation because he's up for reelection next year.
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Pishevar invoked his lawsuit and alleged smear campaign in a lengthy statement earlier this week about taking a leave of absence from his VC firm and role at Virgin Hyperloop One.
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Ilmars Rimsevics has dismissed the allegations and said that he is the victim of a smear campaign, while the Ministry of Defence has suggested too that disinformation may be to blame.
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Backstory: In November, Pishevar sued the firm, claiming that it had engaged in a smear campaign related to his arrest in London last year for alleged rape (he was never charged).
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"This has all of the ingredients of a smear campaign on steroids," Carrie Severino, the policy director and chief counsel for Judicial Crisis Network, said in a statement following the allegations.
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MERION STATION, Pa. — Facebook has apologized for hiring Washington D.C. hit firm Definers Public Relations as part of a smear campaign against its critics in the wake of the Russia scandal.
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Ms. Yovanovitch will offer a more personal account of a smear campaign led by Mr. Giuliani and the corrupt former Ukrainian prosecutor general to portray her as disloyal to Mr. Trump.
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Steve Lawler, a 70-year-old pensioner waiting for a bus, believes that "it's a coup, like a smear campaign by Labour Friends of Israel", an organisation Ms Ellman helps run.
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Rimsevics, who was held in custody over the weekend, said he was the victim of a smear campaign because he has been leading a drive to clean up banking sector corruption.
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Instead, the lies are seen in the broader context of what supporters see as a "deeper truth" — in this case, that Kavanaugh is an innocent target of a Democratic smear campaign.
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Cohen's attorney, Brent Blakely, accused Avenatti of engaging in a public smear campaign against his client in the weeks preceding the trial including more than 170 appearances on various news shows.
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In July, his company launched a guerrilla smear campaign against the Republican candidate, wheat-pasting thousands of anti-Trump posters all over New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oaxaca.
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The men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, had also tried to use Sessions to get the US ambassador to Ukraine fired as part of what's been dubbed a political smear campaign.
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China shows no signs of giving up on its smear campaign against protesters in Hong Kong, and many observers around the world are getting nervous about what Beijing might do next.
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In the Ukraine case, by contrast, Ambassador Yovanovitch not only lost her post, she endured a smear campaign by the executive branch of her own government at the highest possible level.
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"It would not be appropriate for the president to seek to call witnesses merely to try to perpetuate the same smear campaign that was foiled when his plot was discovered," Rep.
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Trump abruptly pulled Yovanovitch out of the country last May, and she testified publicly late last year in the impeachment inquiry, telling lawmakers she was the victim of a smear campaign.
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She described what she called a smear campaign by the president's allies, including his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, to paint her as anti-Trump and get her out of the job.
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"It reveals a clear paper trail from Rudy Giuliani to the Oval Office to Secretary Pompeo to facilitate Giuliani's smear campaign against a U.S. ambassador," the group said in a statement.
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Turkey's communications ministry said Wikipedia was attempting to run a "smear campaign" against Turkey, saying some articles purported that Ankara was coordinating with militant groups, state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
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"We are not going to allow a last-minute smear campaign (to) destroy a good and decent man who has an unblemished personal record," a spokesman for the conservative group said.
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Turkey's communications ministry had argued that the website attempted to run a "smear campaign" against the country by allowing certain articles to claim that the Turkish government coordinated with militant groups.
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Previously, sworn testimony from career diplomats and foreign service officers had shown that the Yovanovitch smear campaign was waged by Parnas, Fruman, Giuliani and the former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko.
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The calls came as Mr. Giuliani was executing a smear campaign against Marie L. Yovanovitch, then the ambassador to Ukraine, and pressing Kyiv to begin investigations that would benefit Mr. Trump.
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Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, are also planning to make make floor speeches to call on Republicans to end what they call a smear campaign against the Russia investigation Tuesday evening.
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So remember that Rudy Giuliani led this smear campaign both in the media and with the president to get Yovanovich removed from her post, which she'd served in under multiple administrations.
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Seder said on his podcast last week that Cernovich was leading a smear campaign in an effort to drown out his criticism of President Trump and Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.
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Last Friday, Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, testified about her abrupt removal by Trump, which came amid a smear campaign by Trump's allies that accused her of disloyalty.
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His statements about the former ambassador are significant because Giuliani is the focus of a criminal investigation into whether he violated foreign lobbying laws related to his smear campaign against Yovanovitch.
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Yovanovitch was abruptly recalled from her position earlier this year following what she and several others characterized as a smear campaign against her spearheaded by Giuliani at the president&aposs direction.
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In November, Yovanovitch testified that she had been forced out of her ambassadorship after a smear campaign by Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani — and earned a standing ovation for her words.
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House Intelligence ranking member Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) attacked Democrats for their "carefully orchestrated smear campaign" against President Trump in his opening statement at the first public impeachment hearing on Wednesday.
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But anyone familiar with the Democrats' scorched-Earth war against President Trump would not be surprised to see all the typical signs that this is a carefully orchestrated media smear campaign.
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Additionally, after her termination, she claims that Beck and others engaged in a public smear campaign — and, more privately, placed a caution tape X over her dressing room door at The Blaze.
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Representative Doug Collins, the top Republican on Nadler's committee, in a statement denounced the records request as "harassment" and accused Democrats of pursuing a "smear" campaign against a sitting Supreme Court justice.
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Defence lawyer Carl Heydenreich declined to comment on the allegations against his client on Thursday, saying the matter was complicated by what he said was a "smear campaign" ahead of the trial.
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MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday night condemned the "smear campaign" being orchestrated against a top White House official who testified in the House's impeachment inquiry, saying that commentators questioning Lt. Col.
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I hesitated to speak on this only because I didn't want to draw attention to a smear campaign that has been running since Dylan's pediatrician first called the police 30 years ago.
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"President Trump has done nothing wrong — this is a coordinated smear campaign from far-left lawmakers and radical unelected bureaucrats waging war on the Constitution." said White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.
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" Last evening, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement: "President Trump has done nothing wrong — this is a coordinated smear campaign from far-left lawmakers and radical unelected bureaucrats.
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We pulled together some of our favorite, flavor-packed chicken recipes—whole roasted, braised thighs, marinated and grilled breasts—to end this smear campaign against chicken's reputation once and for all. 1.
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Central bank chief Ilmars Rimsevics has denied separate bribery allegations, saying he was the victim of a smear campaign because he had been leading a drive to clean up banking sector corruption.
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Trump University is pretty clearly a scam, for which Trump is seeking to avoid legal accountability through a racist smear campaign against a federal judge and campaign contributions to state attorneys general.
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Update: Rubin published his response to the NYT story, claiming that it contains "numerous inaccuracies" it cites comments from anonymous sources at Google that are "part of a smear campaign" against him.
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They were part of a wide-ranging smear campaign by Trump and his allies to discredit diplomats with knowledge of alleged attempts to force Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
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In a statement Wednesday, MRC founder Brent Bozell tweeted that his group is monitoring news shows and will put "media's advertisers on notice" if they perceive attempts at a liberal "smear" campaign.
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Yovanovitch was abruptly recalled from her position in May after what she described as a nearly yearlong "smear campaign" against her by Trump and Giuliani that was based on fabrications and lies.
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According to the suit ... Stormy then went on a social media smear campaign against the Pegasus owners, accusing the wife of being "autistic and mentally challenged" and calling the husband a drunk.
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She testified that she was removed based on "false claims by people with clearly questionable motives" and after Trump embarked on a smear campaign against her starting in the summer of 2018.
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Yovanovitch said she was horrified at the "baseless allegations" raised against her by Rudy Giuliani and other Trump associates, as part of a "smear campaign" to get her removed from her post.
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This week, Mr. Trump and his allies seized on the fact that Democrats had paid the firm for the research as evidence that the dossier was part of a political smear campaign.
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Mr. Soros's foundations have been banned from distributing funds in Russia, while Open Society chose to move its offices out of Hungary this year after a smear campaign by the Orban government.
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" In a statement, a spokesman for Mr. Ghosn called the report "part of an unsubstantiated smear campaign against Carlos Ghosn to prevent the integration of the alliance and conceal Nissan's deteriorating performance.
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On the first day of the hearings, which stretched late into the night, Judge Thomas, who was then 43, excoriated the committee for facilitating what he viewed as a racist smear campaign.
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" In a statement on Thursday, representatives for R. Kelly denounced what they called an "ongoing smear campaign against him, waged by enemies seeking a payoff," and called Spotify's decision "unfortunate and shortsighted.
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The backdrop: Pompeo appointed Taylor as acting ambassador after Marie Yovanovitch was ousted from the post following a smear campaign led by the president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani and conservative columnist John Solomon.
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According to testimony in the House impeachment inquiry, Yovanovitch was subject to a smear campaign from Giuliani and his associates, including Parnas and Fruman, that eventually led to her dismissal last year.
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The president has repeatedly claimed he does not know Parnas, including after Parnas&apos recent interviews in which he offered damning details of the smear campaign he was involved in against Yovanovitch.
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They largely viewed the allegations that led to the ouster of Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch as a baseless smear campaign promoted by Giuliani, his associates and members of the right-wing media.
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Marie Yovanovitch was describing details of a smear campaign against her when House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff interjected to say that Trump was live-tweeting criticism of her testimony on Twitter.
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But the House report pulls back at least some of that curtain when describing the smear campaign orchestrated against Yovanovitch, who was the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine until May of this year.
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"As I was traveling around Iowa last week, one of the things I began hearing was that some voters weren't going to support him because of President Trump's smear campaign," Kucinich said.
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In 2015, a Netherlands-based mining company accused Mr. Akhmetshin of hacking into its computer systems and unlawfully disseminating confidential information as part of a smear campaign by a rival Russian firm.
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The ambassador ultimately fell victim to a nasty smear campaign, which falsely accused her of, among other things, blocking Trump's Ukraine policy and furnishing a "do not prosecute" list to Ukrainian prosecutors.
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Porter denied the allegations in a statement, calling them part of a "smear campaign," but he announced his resignation after images of his first wife with bruises on her face surfaced online.
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" Strong began by testifying, "I'm only here today because I was the target of a smear campaign by President Trump and Rudy Giuliani that left me publicly humiliated and without a job.
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She testified to lawmakers earlier this month that her removal was the result of a smear campaign engineered by Trump allies who portrayed her as disloyal for rebuffing Giuliani's mission in Ukraine.
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Asked on Wednesday about the senator's apparent reversal, Sanders spokesperson Briahna Joy Gray charged that the persistent questions amounted to a "smear" campaign, while also falsely asserting Bloomberg had multiple heart attacks.
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In the days since, Trump's campaign has both denied the incident ever happened and started a smear campaign against Fields, calling her an "attention seeker" who brought the negative press on herself.
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Kwatinetz is engaging in a xenophobic PR smear campaign against Sport Trinity, the largest investor in BIG3 basketball, to cover up his own mismanagement and erratic behavior with respect to the league.
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Taylor testified about his concerns over taking the post in Kiev in the wake of Yovanovitch's unexpected removal in May after a smear campaign led by the President's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
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Van Jones wrote a book about green jobs back in 2008 and even worked briefly as an Obama green jobs adviser, before a right-wing smear campaign drove him from the administration.
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North Korea calls allegations 'smear campaign' South Korean lawmakers, briefed by the country's intelligence officials, said two North Korean ministries orchestrated the plot to kill Kim on the orders of his half brother.
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He said the chorus of allegations was a smear campaign aimed at ruining the United Malays National Organisation, the party that until now has led every government since Malaysia's independence six decades ago.
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"This 35-year-old, uncorroborated claim is the latest in a coordinated smear campaign by the Democrats designed to tear down a good man," White House spokesperson Kerri Kupec said in a statement.
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" Fairfax said the allegations were part of "a vicious and coordinated smear campaign" being orchestrated against him, and that he has passed two FBI background checks "with nothing like this being raised before.
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In a development that human rights observers have called "chilling," Saudi Arabia arrested a group of prominent women's rights advocates on Saturday and subjected them to a "smear campaign" in pro-government newspapers.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - European Council President Donald Tusk testified for eight hours on Wednesday in a Polish intelligence probe by Warsaw's right-wing government that he described as a smear campaign to discredit him.
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Stacey Plaskett, a Democratic non-voting member of US House of Representatives, told BuzzFeed News in a statement Thursday that the privacy invasion was followed by an "organized smear campaign" in press reports.
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House Democrats accused Trump of orchestrating a smear campaign to justify her removal because she was an obstacle to his effort to convince the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Pete Hain, a leading participant in the campaign to stop tours of the UK by all-white South African sports teams, was one of the main targets of the South African smear campaign.
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She said this was because most of the actions that Bacon accused Nygard of undertaking to further his alleged smear campaign occurred in the Bahamas, and most of the potential witnesses live there.
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Support and opposition to Kavanaugh's confirmation appear to be split down party lines, with Democrats opposing his nomination amid the allegations and Republicans backing him and citing the accusations as a "smear" campaign.
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Mr. Kwatinetz is engaging in a xenophobic PR smear campaign against Sport Trinity, the largest investor in BIG3 basketball, to cover up his own mismanagement and erratic behavior with respect to the league.
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On Friday, the House will hear testimony from Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former United States ambassador to Ukraine whom Mr. Trump ousted in May in what Mr. Kent described as a smear campaign.
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After a smear campaign by the rest of the Markles, Doria Ragland was the definition of poise and grace as she looked on as her only daughter married into the British royal family.
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Kalanick hit back at the venture capital firm Benchmark in a court filing late Thursday night, accusing its executives of threatening him with a smear campaign earlier this year to force his resignation.
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McCain first interjected in the Assange discussion to say "he was allegedly kicked out of the Ecuadorian embassy because he was defecating everywhere and creating messes," which Anderson said was a smear campaign.
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It was the latest in a long line of setbacks for Russia's sporting image which have infuriated the Kremlin and drawn allegations from some officials of a deliberate Western smear campaign against Russia.
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She made deliberate choices that made her an unassailable commentator: no litigation, no P.R. firm and detailed descriptions of each incident left no room for a smear campaign or any question of impropriety.
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And some top Republicans have changed their tone on the matter, pivoting from the importance of letting Dr. Blasey speak to labeling her claims as little more than a Democratic-led smear campaign.
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After all, the central plot is set in motion when that young woman, Hero, having become engaged to marry the soldier Claudio, finds herself the victim of a smear campaign impugning her virginity.
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Since announcing this week that it would relocate some of its production to mitigate the impact of retaliatory European tariffs, Harley-Davidson's chief executive has been the subject of an online smear campaign.
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Mr. Stone's prepared statement presents him as a veteran of "slash and burn" political discourse caught up in a partisan and unsubstantiated smear campaign by members of the committee and the news media.
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Survivors who have spoken out against Glaser, and their relatives, say they have also been subjected to intimidation, as well as a smear campaign, coordinated on a Facebook page titled Justice For Bery.
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To recap: A prologue, of sorts, to the impeachment saga occurred in March 2019 when Giuliani, Parnas, and various corrupt Ukrainians launched a smear campaign against the US ambassador in Kyiv, Marie Yovanovitch.
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But documents and testimony later showed that she was the target of a smear campaign for, in part, refusing to grant visas to former Ukrainian officials who were investigating Mr. Trump's political rivals.
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" White House spokesperson Kerri Kupec said in a statement, "This 35-year-old, uncorroborated claim is the latest in a coordinated smear campaign by the Democrats designed to tear down a good man.
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"There are Ukrainians pushing out information about Masha Yovanovitch which is untrue," Hill shot back, referring to two Giuliani associates who waged a smear campaign against Yovanovitch that ultimately led to her removal.
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So audience scores at Rotten Tomatoes (and other audience-driven scores, like the ones at IMDb) naturally skew very positive, or sometimes very negative if there's any sort of smear campaign in play.
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We broke the story ... Shelby's owners sued PETA for defamation in February, claiming the organization went on a smear campaign against Paws alleging it had racked up citations under the Animal Welfare Act.
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He has called the prior allegations "completely false and misleading," trying to paint this as an attack on his Christianity and a Democratic and GOP smear campaign weeks ahead of the special election.
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FIRM WORKED ON TRUMP DOSSIER WHILE FIGHTING SANCTIONS FOR PUTIN-TIED FAMILY, KEY WITNESS SAYS Browder testified that Fusion GPS conducted a "smear campaign" against him in a bid to fight the Magnitsky Act.
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Critics have long accused PDVSA of corruption, but the company has maintained it is the target of a right-wing smear campaign, led by the United States and compliant international media, to sabotage socialism.
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International experts reviewing one of Mexico's most notorious crimes have accused parts of the Mexican government and its sympathizers of trying to block advances in the investigation and orchestrating a smear campaign against them.
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" Earlier this month, Pishevar sued a GOP opposition research firm, Definers Public Affairs, accusing it of spreading a smear campaign against him; though Tim Miller, a partner of the firm, called the allegations "delusional.
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"At the time, we had no reason to question what these guys were telling us — but in hindsight, I realize that this was very likely the Miramax smear campaign in full swing," said Jackson.
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As accounts of Harvey Weinstein's decades of chilling predatory behavior filled the news cycle, it was eventually revealed the now-disgraced mega-producer waged a "smear campaign" against both Judd and Sorvino years ago.
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In a statement to the AP, Manafort confirmed that he worked for Deripaska in various countries but said the work was being unfairly cast as "inappropriate or nefarious" as part of a "smear campaign."
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Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, has claimed Putin was the "main target" of the investigation and suggested it was the result of a smear campaign ahead of Russian parliamentary elections, according to the Associated Press.
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Orchestrating a smear campaign against a law which as its sole purpose and directive — protects customers from the predatory practices of profit-driven financial institutions is simply not how forward-thinking policy is made.
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Greitens, once seen as a rising star in the Republican Party, has called the allegations in both cases part of a "smear" campaign orchestrated by St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, a Democrat.
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The band, which has an openly gay vocalist and has played in major cities around the world, has said it is the target of a smear campaign in Lebanon to crush freedom of expression.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden's presidential campaign accused The New York Times on Wednesday night of "actively participating" in a "smear campaign" against the candidate concerning its coverage of unfounded corruption allegations against Biden.
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But five witnesses stood out in their ability to speak to every facet of what some have dubbed "Ukrainegate": the phone call, cover-up, quid pro quo, and smear campaign against a career diplomat.
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Devin Nunes, the ranking member on the committee, set the tone for the GOP by immediately calling Democrats corrupt and accusing the media of carrying out a "carefully orchestrated smear campaign" against the president.
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Both Kent and Taylor detailed at length Giuliani's close involvement in getting Ukraine to give Trump what he wanted, as well as his smear campaign against Marie Yovanovitch, the US's former ambassador to Ukraine.
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Sources close to Mistry said that Tata had nothing to show for its allegations of a conflict of interest and called them a smear campaign unworthy of either the Tata group or a response.
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" The New Zealand director, according to the Stuff article, said that assessment of Judd persuaded him not to cast her but he later came to believe she was the victim of a "smear campaign.
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Meanwhile M.G.M. unleashed a smear campaign: Pinkerton detectives subjected her to surveillance; pressured her doctor to falsely say she had gonorrhea; and strong-armed fellow dancers to sign statements tagging her a promiscuous drunk.
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Pishevar denied the allegations, saying he was the victim of a larger smear campaign orchestrated by a GOP opposition research firm he'd sued earlier that month, weeks before the harassment allegations were made public.
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"It won't be an overnight change," said the group's spokeswoman Reese Li, adding that conservative groups are ramping up their smear campaign, including linking same-sex marriage to a potential rise in HIV cases.
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Ex-'Bachelorette' star Chad Johnson followed up a trip to the hospital for an evaluation by going on a smear campaign against his ex-girlfriend packed full of lies ... so says the ex herself.
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" He warned that the "smear campaign" against the North compelled it to "make firm determination that humanitarianism and benevolence for the enemy are a taboo and we should further sharpen the blade of law.
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"Instead of coordinating against terrorism, it has become part of an information source which is running a smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena," Anadolu quoted the ministry as saying in a statement.
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But once it became clear that the panel would not serve as a rubber stamp, a carefully calibrated smear campaign began, and the panel's request for more time to finish its work was denied.
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" In the filing, Rad and Pambakian's attorneys also argued that Blatt filed the suit "solely to launch a public smear campaign against Pambakian and the person who reported the assault to Match, Sean Rad.
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The government justified the ban by claiming that the site's articles constituted "a smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena," according to a statement published by Anadolu Agency, the state-owned news wire.
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The calls came as Mr. Giuliani was executing a smear campaign against the American ambassador to Ukraine at the time, Marie L. Yovanovitch, and pressing Ukraine to begin investigations that would benefit Mr. Trump.
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"Amy Coney Barrett's qualifications for the federal judiciary are undisputed, but abortion industry advocates continue their smear campaign by attacking Barrett's Catholic faith," the group's legal adviser, Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, said in a statement.
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Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, testified that she was the target of a smear campaign engineered to get Mr. Trump to remove her; she was recalled from Kiev in the spring.
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In May, Lutsenko met with an American friend, who warned him that his association with Giuliani's smear campaign against the Bidens and Yovanovitch was causing serious damage to Ukraine's standing in the United States.
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In a third briefing on Thursday for foreign journalists, Bekir Bozdag, Turkey's justice minister, blamed a smear campaign by "terrorist organizations" for tricking American and European journalists into holding critical views of Turkey's crackdown.
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Hill is currently going through an acrimonious divorce from her husband Kenny Heslep, who she alleges is behind the smear campaign and who has publicly accused her of having an affair with her staffer.
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In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, administration officials described Solomon's articles about Yovanovitch as central to a "smear campaign," spearheaded by Giuliani on behalf of Trump, and characterized them as false or inaccurate.
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Republicans, who for weeks have been saying the timing of these allegations were suspect, just hit a major snag with their talking point that this entire allegation was part of an orchestrated smear campaign.
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"This whole smear campaign is really just part of the Democrat's larger fake news conspiracy theory that Russian hacking, hacking, is the reason why Hillary Clinton lost the election," Hannity quipped during his opening monologue.
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He still hadn't called her to make one a month later, but continued to say he should have done a better job of protecting her from the partisan smear campaign she faced for accusing Thomas.
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He said he was fired after sharing details of his "private sex life" with his former employers in an effort to head off a smear campaign by "jilted" exes accusing him of nonconsensual kinky activity.
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Here's his full statement: As many of you may have seen in recent news coverage, I filed a lawsuit last month against what I believe to be potential perpetrators of a smear campaign against me.
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In 2018 he denied receiving funding for his party from Venezuela and Iran, prompting counter-claims that the accusation was part of a smear campaign under Rajoy's government, which the PP has in turn denied.
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But there's something else, which I keep encountering, and which I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice: even among progressives, the two-decade-plus smear campaign against the Clintons has had its effect.
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While Tchijevsky would continue working on his experiments until his death in 1964, the Soviet smear campaign took its toll on his hypotheses: in the last 50 years, his ideas have fallen into total obscurity.
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"President Trump has done nothing wrong -- this is a coordinated smear campaign from far-left lawmakers and radical unelected bureaucrats waging war on the Constitution," said White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham in a statement.
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With the public disclosure that investigators found marijuana in Jean's apartment, his family members say law enforcement is waging a "smear campaign" to find justification in a killing where so many questions have remained unanswered.
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Considering the positive impact that Rogers had on children who grew up watching his public television show, it's an amusing smear campaign to watch years later — and thankfully, it hasn't hurt his legacy one bit.
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"I hesitated to speak on this only because I didn't want to draw attention to a smear campaign that has been running since Dylan's pediatrician first called the police almost 30 years ago," he concluded.
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The Philippine news site Rappler has identified a network of more than 12 million pro-Duterte propaganda accounts on various platforms, reporting that led to a concerted smear campaign against the site from Duterte's fans.
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Government officials dismiss market default speculation as a right-wing smear campaign, and President Nicolas Maduro stresses the country last year covered roughly $10.5 billion debt payments, even reducing imports in the scarcity-hit country.
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"At the time, we had no reason to question what these guys were telling us — but in hindsight, I realize that this was very likely the Miramax smear campaign in full swing," he told Stuff.
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"When the Court determines the truth, it will become clear that this entire charade was nothing more than a smear campaign intended to cover up Ms. Brown's own conduct during the marriage," the statement read.
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There was also what Down to Lunch described as a "smear campaign" happening on Twitter and the App Store that the app was allegedly being used for human trafficking, which the company has publicly denied.
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Here are the takeaways from the intense MSNBC Democratic debate: Clinton goes after Sanders for his 'artful smear' campaign In her second presidential campaign, Clinton clearly doesn't want to win through a war of attrition.
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Last year its former head, Won Sei-hoon, was sentenced to three years in prison for directing an online smear campaign against rivals to Park Geun-hye, the president, before her election victory in 2012.
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Wynn, who helped transform Las Vegas into the world-famous destination it is today, has denied the sexual misconduct reports, explaining that they're the result of a smear campaign by his ex-wife, Elaine Wynn.
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"As many of you have seen in recent news coverage, I filed a lawsuit last month against what I believe to be potential perpetrators of a smear campaign against me," Pishevar said in a statement.
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He also defended Masha Yovanovitch, the US&aposs former ambassador to Ukraine who was abruptly recalled in May following what she characterized as a "smear campaign" against her by Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
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The smear campaign against a widely respected US ambassador who was forced out and publicly embarrassed because she refused to help the president and his allies in their shadow policy campaign with respect to Ukraine.
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Republicans have seized on Avenatti's entrance into the controversy to underline their concerns about a smear campaign against Kavanaugh, but it's unclear how they will react now that the specific allegations have been made public.
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The Orban government later forced rights groups receiving more than 24,000 euros (roughly $30,000) from foreign sources to register with the authorities, and led a smear campaign against Mr. Soros and the groups he finances.
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He repeatedly called the focus on his writings and finances a "smear campaign" and said his critics were "pulling a Kavanaugh against me," a reference to the contentious nomination hearings of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
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Hearing Republican Senators call it a smear campaign, that "all 17 year olds do it," that "it doesn't matter what a 17 year old does in their future" is re-traumatizing in and of itself.
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Yovanovitch was abruptly recalled from her position last May after what she and others characterized as a smear campaign against her by Giuliani and Trump that was aided by Lutsenko, whom Yovanovitch had sharply criticized.
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Elle Magazine's long-running advice columnist E. Jean Carroll says that she was fired from her job because President Donald Trump embarked on a smear campaign against her after she said he sexually assaulted her.
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This month, lawyers acting on behalf of two of Mr. Steinmetz's firms sued the billionaire financier George Soros in federal court in New York, asserting that he had directed a smear campaign against the companies.
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Not a single Republican lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee backed up the president's midhearing attacks on veteran diplomat Marie Yovanovitch Friday as she described a Trump-fueled "smear campaign" that effectively ended her career.
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Bell Pottinger dropped Oakbay, the holding company of the Guptas' mining-to-media empire, in April, alleging that it was the target of a "politically driven smear campaign" after domestic media criticism of its role.
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Mr. Iglesias argues that under the conservative government that lost power last year, his party long suffered from a state-backed media smear campaign, orchestrated by a high-ranking former police official, José Manuel Villarejo.
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The Trump administration has been running a pretty remarkable smear campaign against the Obama-era legislation responsible for dropping the uninsured rate to 2318 percent, and allowing nearly 22596 million Americans to access health care.
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Stevie J says his ex has been on a smear campaign and even enlisted a former nanny for his child to post similar allegations on social media ... according to the defamation suit, obtained by TMZ.
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" Jackson went on, "At the time, we had no reason to question what these guys were telling us — but in hindsight, I realise that this was very likely the Miramax smear campaign in full swing.
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Pishevar said he was taking a leave of absence in order to protect his venture capital firm and its portfolio companies as he pursues a lawsuit against people who have conducted a "smear campaign" against him.
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Some Republicans have called the allegations a "smear campaign" and are asking why Democrats aren't investigating allegations into some of their prominent members — notably, Ellison, who is also the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.
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GREGG JARRETT, FOX NEWS LEGAL ANALYST: Dick Durbin smeared and led the smear campaign against Kavanaugh 12 years ago, calling Kavanaugh the Forest Gump of Republican politics, which only underscores how too seen partisan Durbin is.
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Read: Laura Ingraham returned from vacation to another advertiser dumping her show Alder joins a right-wing smear campaign against Hogg that's ratcheted up as he becomes an increasingly prominent voice in the gun control debate.
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The firing came in response to a smear campaign by a noted alt-right media personality, who resurfaced some bad-taste jokes about pedophilia that Gunn had tweeted, in some cases more than a decade ago.
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"But for Ms. Fowler's perhaps naïve courage in publishing her post – for which she faced an attempted smear campaign and a surreptitious investigation into her friends and family – Uber's workplace would have remained exactly the same."
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During the 2000 election, for example, Republican frontrunner John McCain was the target of an anonymous smear campaign that his wife was a drug addict and their adopted child was born out of an adulterous affair.
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In a Facebook post Friday, Greitens denied that the latest charges against him, accusing St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner — who originally brought the invasion of privacy charge — of embarking on a smear campaign against him.
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But few politicians appear ready to trust that the steps Facebook is taking will be enough to avoid a repeat of, for example, the mass Kremlin propaganda smear campaign that targeted the 2016 US presidential election.
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In an official response made public on Wednesday, Peru's lawyers accused Gramercy of conducting a "desperate smear campaign" against the sovereign in an attempt to reap hefty returns after snapping up the bonds on the cheap.
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But the smear campaign against Curiel is one of those moments in the Trump campaign when the presumptive Republican nominee isn't just damaging political discourse — he's posing a threat to the independence of the judiciary itself.
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Hernandez rejected the allegations, casting himself as the victim of a smear campaign by drug gangs he had targeted, and accusing political opponents, such as ex-president Manuel Zelaya, of colluding with gangsters to discredit him.
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Lahren, 24, sued the radio host and his company claiming she was wrongly terminated after she voiced her pro-choice opinion on abortion, and that Beck and other former colleagues launched a smear campaign against her.
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First up on Friday morning, the House Intelligence Committee will take public testimony from Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, who was abruptly recalled to Washington amid a smear campaign by Mr. Trump's allies.
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Within hours of the first allegation of chemical use on April 22017, Syria's state-run news agency painted the reports as a smear campaign by the last remaining opposition group in East Ghouta, Jaysh al-Islam.
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Newly released documents revealed a paper trail connecting Trump&aposs personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump&aposs former personal assistant in a smear campaign against a former ambassador to Ukraine.
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Trump fielded similar accusations last week, when he lobbed Twitter attacks on Masha Yovanovitch, the US's former ambassador to Ukraine who was abruptly recalled after what she characterized as Trump's and Giuliani's smear campaign against her.
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Playlist: "Contemptuous" / "Indispose" / "Just Rewards" / "Lifeless Alarm" / "Morale" / "Smear Campaign" / "Atheist Runt" / "Time Waits for No Slave" / "Everyday Pox" / "Fall on their Swords" / "Apex Predator - Easy Meat" / "Dear Slum Landlord…" / "Caste as Waste" Spotify | Apple Music
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North Korea's official KCNA news agency said U.S. accusations that it was responsible for cyber attacks in 2014 and 2017 were a "smear campaign" and a man sanctioned by Washington earlier this month did not exist.
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Communications employees at Facebook are fuming at the company's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, after they were thrown under the bus over a smear campaign targeting the company's critics, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday night.
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"President Trump has done nothing wrong — this is a coordinated smear campaign from far-left lawmakers and radical unelected bureaucrats waging war on the Constitution," Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, said in a statement.
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He said the White House had tried to orchestrate a smear campaign against Republicans, and he asked the Senate floor, "Will we pursue the search for truth or will we dodge, weave and evade the truth?"
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Married lawyers Jill and Kent Easter of Irvine, California planted drugs in Peters' car and launched a smear campaign to have her ousted from her position as president of the PTA at the Playa Vista School.
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Koroma, who stepped down in April after two terms in office, was not immediately available for comment but has denied any wrongdoing in the past and has said the report is part of a smear campaign.
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After being asked by the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in early March 2019 to extend my tour until 2020, the smear campaign against me entered a new public phase in the United States.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Allegations in Australian media about China's efforts to interfere in Taiwan's elections roiled the island on Thursday, after new reporting said a self-professed Chinese spy described a smear campaign against Taiwan's ruling party.
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The truth is Ambassador Yovanovitch was the victim of a smear campaign organized by Rudy Giuliani, amplified by President Trump's allies and designed to give President Trump the pretext he needed to recall her without warning.
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He and his associates mounted a smear campaign to remove former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch from her post in Kiev, viewing her as an impediment to obtain information about Biden from his Ukrainian sources.
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Soros has repeatedly used the World Economic Forum at Davos as a platform to criticize Facebook, and following his 2018 remarks, the company responded by secretly hiring a company to run a smear campaign against Soros.
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The New York Times first reported that Giuliani met in Budapest with former Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko, who Democrats have accused of being part of a smear campaign to oust the former U.S. ambassador in Kyiv.
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President Nicolas Maduro's leftist government says those accusations are part of a broader smear campaign and points to arrests like these as proof his administration is cracking down on what it calls a few bad apples.
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He testified that agency leadership declined to put out a statement of support for former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was removed after a smear campaign promoted by Rudy Giuliani and right-wing media.
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In a letter to Sandberg, and CC'd to Zuckerberg as well as major Silicon Valley figures and members of Congress, OSF President Patrick Gaspard drew a direct connection between Facebook's alleged "smear campaign" and the attempted bombing.
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In Saturday's press conference, Schubert also shed light on Clark's personal life and divulged details about his mental health — which his parents later described as a "smear campaign" and irrelevant to the officers' decision to shoot him.
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When one third of Russia's Olympic delegation was banned from the Rio Games in the wake of revelations of widespread, state-sponsored doping, President Vladimir Putin condemned the move as a smear campaign against Russia's Olympic heroes.
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The PR firm dropped Oakbay as a client in April, saying it was the victim of a "politically driven smear campaign" after domestic media accused it of hijacking domestic politics by pushing the "white monopoly capital" slogan.
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She accused her "abusive husband," whom she is in the process of divorcing, of engaging in a "smear campaign built around cyber exploitation," alleging he enlisted "hateful political operatives" to help distribute the nude photos of her.
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It's a tactic that was most egregiously deployed by John Travolta's Gotti movie in June, when the film's marketer's reacted to the almost unprecedented 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes by launching a smear campaign against film criticism.
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In 2008, while Murray was promoting his marriage equality campaign, The Seattle Times reported that two men accused Murray of "molesting and raping" them in the '1980s and tried to start a smear campaign with media organizations.
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Pishevar noted that he was taking the leave in order to protect his venture capital firm and its portfolio companies as he pursues a lawsuit against individuals who he said have conducted a "smear campaign" against him.
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Ironically, the only organisations joining them in protest against the use of "special measures" are Israeli human-rights organisations, which just last month were the subjects of a right-wing smear campaign branding them as alien "plants".
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He accused critics of a "vicious nationwide smear campaign" against the state, while the campaign of Attorney General Roy Cooper, a Democrat who plans to run against Mr. McCrory this fall, started a "Shame on McCrory" website.
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Schumer's remarks, here's what ... McConnell said yesterday 'does it sound like a choreographed smear campaign that ignored Dr. Ford's request for confidentiality in order to inflict maximum damage at the last minute on Judge Kavanaugh & his family.
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This public smear campaign will surely deter qualified appointees to any branch of government from wanting to throw their hat into the ring, for fear of their family undergoing 10 days of what Kavanaugh described as hell.
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" Sanders blasted Senate Democrats, saying the "entire process has been a disgrace" and claiming the party has "undermined our entire judicial branch" with a "coordinated smear campaign" intended as a "full-scale assault on Judge Kavanaugh's integrity.
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It wasn't until the New York Times published its blockbuster report that detailed the inner workings of an alleged smear campaign to deflect criticism of Facebook from progressive activists that the string of unfamiliar threats added up.
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Though broadcast by a television network aimed mostly at foreign audiences, the account of their trip to England largely seemed meant to convince Russians that Britain's version of events was part of a smear campaign against Moscow.
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The North's unnamed ministry spokesman said that such accusations were part of a smear campaign to slander the country that had given "medical treatments and care with all sincerity" to a person who was "clearly a criminal".
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Parnas&apos text messages revealed constant surveillance of former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie YovanovitchThe former ambassador testified during Trump&aposs impeachment trial that she was abruptly recalled from her position in May, following a smear campaign.
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If he goes down, his plight will only enrage the conservative base and deepen the determination of partisans to avenge what they see as a Democratic smear campaign, in a way that will further polarize the nation.
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At the very least, Pompeo enabled the smear campaign to go unchallenged, acquiesced in the Giuliani back channel effort with Ukraine and failed to say a word in defense of Bill Taylor, George Kent or Marie Yovanovitch.
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The circumstances of Ms. Yovanovitch's ouster after a smear campaign engineered in part by Mr. Giuliani were documented during testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, where she was a key witness in impeachment proceedings against Mr. Trump.
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Aides to President Donald Trump are zeroing in on a new U.S. ambassador to Kyiv—a posting that's been empty since Marie Yovanovitch was recalled earlier this year after a smear campaign spearheaded by Trump's personal attorney.
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Republicans also tread lightly when it came to Williams and Marie Yovanovitch, a well-respected diplomat who was ousted from her post as ambassador to Ukraine after a smear campaign by Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney.
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Yovanovitch appeared before investigators Friday to publicly testify in the House impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, stating she was abandoned by the State Department who refused to defend her amid a "smear campaign" by the president's allies.
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"Like the other allegations made since November, those found in this so-called independent 'report' will be revealed for what they are: part of an unsubstantiated smear campaign against Carlos Ghosn," the spokesperson said in a statement.
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Stung by the international outcry, including an unprecedented wave of statements from around Latin America, Maduro alleged he is the victim of a U.S.-led smear campaign intended to lay the groundwork for a coup against him.
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"These are totally baseless and unsubstantiated claims by Ms. Machado, who lobbed a public smear campaign in order to gain notoriety at the expense of Mr. Trump's name and reputation," spokesman Steven Miller said in an email.
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Jackie Speier upbraided a reporter for The Hill and ripped the outlet's publication of columns by John Solomon, the conservative journalist whose work is at the center of what Yovanovitch described as a "smear campaign" against her.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sidestepped questions about his lack of support for Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine who was abruptly recalled from her post earlier this year amid a smear campaign seeking her removal.
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Lacy's reporting had an unintended effect: In 2014, she herself became the subject of an alleged million-dollar smear campaign, which was reported after senior vice president for business Emil Michael threatened her at a dinner party.
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" However, the site's Twitter account also said a company representative (presumably Torba) would be appearing on far-right conspiracy kingpin Alex Jones' radio show to discuss the "coordinated smear campaign by the mainstream media complex and Big Tech.
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Cenveo accused Brigade in court papers on Tuesday of launching a smear campaign rooted in a bitter restructuring talks after the investment firm asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to order an independent examiner to probe the company's affairs.
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A former FBI analyst was sentenced to seven days in jail and a $500 fine Friday for illegally accessing a neighbor's email account in a bid to head off an apparent smear campaign against special counsel Robert Mueller.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to fill a vacant seat at the Federal Reserve said on Sunday a smear campaign was being waged against him, after past writings and comments about women sparked renewed criticism by Democratic lawmakers.
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A wave of protests driven by a Brazilian libertarian group known as Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL), included defacing Santander's building and leading a smear campaign on social media that used bots to spread defamatory content about the exhibit.
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She testified that she "had no agenda other than to pursue our stated foreign policy goals" during her tenure and said she was the victim of a "smear campaign" pushed in part by Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
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In a legal complaint last week, the nonprofit said that Mr. Kagan had threatened to "initiate a smear campaign in the press in order to irreparably harm Ars Nova's reputation," and had then followed through on that threat.
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The police were dogged by allegations that Mr. Lawrence had been denied first aid because of his race, and that they had run a smear campaign against his family and supporters who criticized how the authorities conducted proceedings.
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Newly released documents have revealed a paper trail connecting Trump&aposs personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump&aposs former personal assistant in an alleged smear campaign against a former ambassador to Ukraine.
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But unlike the testimonies of Taylor and George Kent, a senior State Department official, the topic of a smear campaign targeting Yovanovitch's career and reputation is bound to make the hearing more personal for the witness as well.
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Taking refuge from the 16-degree cold in a Portsmouth coffee shop after the Women's March, Ashley Kerhig, a painter from Kittery, Maine, said it was clear that Ms. Warren was orchestrating a smear campaign against Mr. Sanders.
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That, plus the agency's refusal to publicly back Yovanovitch after she was removed from her post amid a smear campaign by Trump allies, was a toxic combination, McKinley said, that motivated him to resign from the state Department.
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The ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine said Friday she was the target of a "smear campaign" by President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani — an effort she said undermined U.S. national security interests and emboldened Russia.
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McCabe has said he is the target of a smear campaign by the Trump administration because of his role in the FBI's Russian investigation and his ties to special counsel Robert Mueller and fired FBI Director James Comey.
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Here's what to watch in Thursday's hearing: What Ford will say President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans have cast Ford's allegation as part of a Democratic smear campaign intended to thwart Kavanaugh's confirmation.
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Once this process comes to a close, Democrats will essentially be handing Trump an exoneration, adding fuel to his claim that Democrats are solely focused on their smear campaign against him instead of trying to work with him.
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A spokesman for the PKK, which has waged a three-decade insurgency in the southeast, denied the group was responsible for the current outage and said the accusations were part of a smear campaign by Turkish intelligence services.
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As the under secretary of state for political affairs, Mr. Hale was among the department officials who grappled with how to handle the smear campaign led by Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump's personal lawyer, to oust Ms. Yovanovitch.
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Phillip Reeker is Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and most of his testimony dealt with the fallout after Trump abruptly withdrew the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine in the face of a smear campaign spread by Rudy Giuliani.
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Trump recalled Yovanovitch from Kyiv in April following a smear campaign by Giuliani and his associates baselessly accusing the longtime foreign service officer of disloyalty to the White House and of attempting to interfere in Ukraine's justice system.
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Republican lawmakers and conservative commentators went on the airwaves and social media to welcome Lorance back — not as a convict who had redeemed himself, but as a victim of a smear campaign by the US military and progressives.
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In his first public appearance since the allegations surfaced on Thursday, Moore suggested that the allegations were politically motivated — part of a smear campaign to damage him in the run-up to the December special election in Alabama.
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Corbyn, as he showed in the debacle over the Palestinian memorial, has the Trumpian gift of emerging from every credible new allegation against him as if he's proved demonstrably that he's the victim of a media smear campaign.
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Back then, he was the subject of a smear campaign weeks before Election Day, losing narrowly in large part due to accusations that proved false and landed his accuser a five-year probation sentence for obstruction of justice.
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"We look forward to defending Mr. Parnas in the court based upon the evidence and not a smear campaign driven by misleading and self-serving leaks apparently from the highest level of government," defense attorney Joseph Bondy said.
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Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, spoke of how undermined she felt when she learned of a smear campaign against her, ostensibly because she was viewed as unhelpful to Mr. Trump — "bad news" in his words.
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Marie Yovanovitch, the ambassador to Ukraine driven from office by a smear campaign led by the president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, was a study in fierce dignity, even as President Trump's congressional lap dogs nipped at her heels.
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As for Mr. Moore, his campaign spent the final days relentlessly flogging e-messages that said that the judge was the victim of a smear campaign devised by Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, and his "establishment" allies.
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In his first interview following his arrest last month on sexual abuse charges, an emotional and unyielding R. Kelly denied having sex with underage girls and portrayed himself as a victim of a social media-fueled smear campaign.
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The group's political arm owns a left-leaning news outlet, ThinkProgress, which published a story and attack ad–style video about Sanders' newly accumulated wealth, prompting Sanders to accuse the think tank of sponsoring a "smear" campaign against progressives.
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" The spokesperson continued, "The smear campaign against [North Korea] staged in the U.S. compels us to make firm determination that humanitarianism and benevolence for the enemy are a taboo and we should further sharpen the blade of the law.
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That would be nothing new — when the Chibok girls were taken in 2100, trutherism reached the highest levels of government, with the then-president's wife claiming the abduction was part of a smear campaign designed to unseat her husband.
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If Azoff's name sounds familiar to you, you might have caught the infamous two-hour Queen Radio episode where Minaj named him "Cocksucker of the Day," claiming he and Travis Scott started a smear campaign against her in 2018.
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I now intend to continue to focus my full attention on those who should ultimately be held responsible for the smear campaign that has been waged against me, including the falsification and distribution of the fraudulent London police report.
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" Donald Jr. also said the allegations from seven women that Trump actually acted on his words and assaulted them are "probably a typical New York Times smear campaign" and that he had "never heard anything dumber in my life.
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Shortly after Trump's departure, the Qatari News Agency (QNA) reported that Qatar's ruler, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, had given a speech accusing its neighbors of a smear campaign, trying to paint Qatar as a supporter of terrorism.
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I urge Joe Donnelly and Senate Democrats to stop their smear campaign and confirm Dr. Price so that we can get to work repairing our healthcare system and once again empower Hoosiers to make their own healthcare decisions. Rep.
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In the past, Maduro has dismissed accusations about drug trafficking links as a smear campaign by Washington, adding that the United States is to blame for the drug trade because it is such a large market for illegal narcotics.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday U.S. accusations that it was responsible for cyber attacks in 2014 and 2017 were a "smear campaign" and the man sanctioned by Washington does not exist, the official KCNA news agency said.
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"Saudi Arabian authorities and government-aligned media launched a public smear campaign last night to try to discredit six prominent detained women's rights defenders as 'traitors' following their arrest this week," Amnesty International said in a statement on Saturday.
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" Dr. Luke's attorney, Christine Lepera, on Monday again denied Kesha's allegations of rape and emotional abuse and accused the singer and her legal team of conducting a "trial by Twitter, using a vicious smear campaign to ruin his reputation.
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In an effort to create a smokescreen for their smear campaign, they focused solely on those people in their justifications, neglecting to mention the rest of us—who simply hold political views they dislike, or are vocal about antifascism.
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The smear campaign exploded into public view in March of this year, when Lutsenko gave an interview to conservative journalist John Solomon of The Hill repeating the unsubstantiated allegation that Yovanovitch had given him a "do not prosecute" list.
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Employees at Facebook are fuming at the company's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, after they were thrown under the bus over a smear campaign targeting the company's critics, including the billionaire George Soros, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Ashley Judd, one of the first actresses to accuse Weinstein of sexual harassment, sued the disgraced movie mogul Monday night, alleging that he embarked on a smear campaign to ruin Judd's film prospects after she rejected his sexual advances.
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On Wednesday, Sanders spokeswoman Briahna Joy Gray called the scrutiny over the Vermont senator's health reminiscent of a "smear" campaign and falsely claimed that former New York City mayor and rival candidate Michael Bloomberg had also suffered heart attacks.
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"I am happy to take the fight to those who have tried to use a smear campaign, not arguments, to prop up their failing case," Soros told the Guardian, which had reported on the donation earlier on Sunday. bit.
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According to the Times account, Mr. Bolton writes in his manuscript that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted to him last spring that Mr. Giuliani's smear campaign against Marie Yovanovitch, who was the American ambassador to Ukraine, was unfounded.
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Schnatter said that the agency requested $6 million "because they claimed some of their people had been offended by what I had said" and that one of their attorneys threatened "a smear campaign" if Papa John's didn't pay up.
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As Oklahoma Attorney General, Pruitt accepted donations from agribusiness interests and engaged in a years-long smear campaign against The Humane Society of the United States (The HSUS) — a crusade that ceased only after we took him to court.
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Many members of the Civil and Foreign Service have been especially appalled at what happened to Yovanovitch: She was pulled early out of Ukraine in May after Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, engaged in a smear campaign against her.
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In 2010, he may or may not have been behind a campaign to have soldiers come forward against the Hurt Locker, saying the film depicted war inaccurately; in 2002, he orchestrated a smear campaign against his competitor A Beautiful Mind.
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But somewhere in between then and now, the once-prized oils — rose, argan, jojoba, even argan — became the focus of a smear campaign blaming them for breakouts and clogged pores, and an oil-free ingredients list became a selling point.
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BrightEdge started by engaging in a smear campaign designed to lure the Debtor's customers and prospective customers to BrightEdge by making false and disparaging statements about Searchmetrics's products, and then initiated vexatious, baseless, and prolonged litigation against [Searchmetrics] on two fronts.
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The Palestinian government denied that Abbas, who received a PhD in Moscow in 1982, had been a Soviet spy, and it accused Israel of "waging a smear campaign" aimed at derailing efforts to revive peace negotiations that collapsed in 2014.
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And Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine ousted by Trump amid a smear campaign by his allies, detailed her impeachment experience in an op-ed earlier in the week, applauding those who would call out "wrongdoing" by powerful officials.
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"It's all nothing more than a smear campaign to get rid of one of the most effective Administrators in the Trump administration," the email reads, following days of stories about Pruitt's 2017 living arrangement, spending practices, and use of power.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to fill a vacant seat at the Federal Reserve said on Sunday a smear campaign was being waged against him, after past writings and comments about women sparked renewed criticism by Democratic lawmakers.
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The government responded with a smear campaign to try to delegitimize the protests' leaders, claiming they were acting in the interest of Western powers, or — exploiting widespread anti-Semitic sentiments — of a Jewish-Zionist plot against the Polish People's Republic.
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Widodo saw a strong lead nearly wiped out in the last election amid a smear campaign of false accusations that he was not a Muslim and the son of Chinese communists - both sensitive issues in the world's largest Muslim-majority country.
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Definers Public Affairs, a policy and opposition research firm, has filed an anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) response to a lawsuit from Silicon Valley investor Shervin Pishevar, who accused the firm of coordinating a smear campaign against him.
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Not surprisingly, he also supported the federal bill that would have banned abortions after 20 weeks and voted to defund Planned Parenthood following the release of David Daleiden's misleading "investigative" videos that were part of a smear campaign against the organization.
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In what's been dubbed a smear campaign by activists, they were labelled by state-backed media as "traitors" for allegedly undermining "the security and stability of the Kingdom, its social peace and national unity," according to the Saudi Arabia Public Prosecution.
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" PEOPLE obtained a statement Luke's attorney, Christine Lepera, provided to the trade publication, saying, "Any claim of duress in connection with that testimony is simply absurd … The vicious smear campaign to extort Luke and damage him and his family is inexcusable.
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McConnell told The Hill he spoke with his top political advisers on Friday, who said the bitter fight over Kavanaugh, and what he has called a "shameless smear campaign" by Democrats, has revved up the GOP base in red states.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's Social Democratic (SPO) Chancellor Christian Kern pledged on Sunday to get to the bottom of his party's connection to a smear campaign against the head of the main opposition People's Party two weeks before a parliamentary election.
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Yovanovitch testified last week that she was a subject of a "smear campaign" to force her out of her position as ambassador to Ukraine, and that she felt "kneecapped" in her ability to do her job due to this campaign.
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In February 2016, Dyson released a vicious smear campaign aimed at hand towels, claiming 88 percent of unused paper towels are covered all over with nasty bacteria and "can contain large communities" of bacteria before they even reach the bathroom.
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Yovanovitch told the House Intelligence Committee on Friday that she was horrified at the "baseless allegations" raised against her by Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, that were part of a "smear campaign" to get her removed from her post.
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But the president's high-decibel smear campaign against the professionals of the F.B.I. destroys the party's pretense of being a friend of law enforcement, as does the administration's dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and its rules against consumer fraud.
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The knifing attack, moreover, took place at the culmination of the annual Great Orchestra of Christmas, a nationwide festival that raises money for hospitals but has been the object of a smear campaign in the nationalist press as a leftist movement.
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In his statement outside the courthouse, Mr. Wyatt called Mr. Cosby one of the "greatest civil rights leaders" in history and one of the "greatest educators of men and boys," and accused the mainstream media of waging a smear campaign.
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Greitens, a Republican under mounting pressure from Missouri politicians of both parties to resign since the sex scandal broke earlier this year, called the latest case part of a "smear" campaign orchestrated by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, a Democrat.
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California's 25th, the southern swing district that Katie Hill flipped last cycle, is open once again, after she decided to resign in the wake of allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a staffer and a smear campaign involving revenge porn.
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California's 25th, the southern swing district that Katie Hill flipped last cycle, is open once again, after she decided to resign in the wake of allegations of an improper relationship with a staffer and a smear campaign involving revenge porn.
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In the run-up to the December 2012 election, Mr. Won directed a secret team of psychological warfare agents to work with hired private bloggers on an online smear campaign against Ms. Park's political rivals, according to the prosecutors' indictment.
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Part of that effort involved Giuliani and Trump pressuring the Ukrainian government to investigate the Bidens, and engineering a smear campaign that lead to the ousting of Marie Yovanovitch, the US ambassador to Ukraine, who stood in Giuliani&aposs way.
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Yovanovitch testified last week that she was a subject of a "smear campaign" to force her out of her position as ambassador to Ukraine and that she felt "kneecapped" in her ability to do her job due to this campaign.
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My Departure from Ukraine After being asked by the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in early March 2019 to extend my tour until 2020, the smear campaign against me entered a new public phase in the United States.
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The big picture: The April contacts came in the midst of a smear campaign against former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, which was led by Giuliani, Parnas and John Solomon, a Trump-friendly journalist who formerly wrote for The Hill.
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When pressed, they will say it could be the biggest political crisis in decades or a smear campaign against the president, but with other, more pressing local issues on their minds, many North Carolinians are reserving their judgment — and their attention.
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In 2015, International Mineral Resources, a mining company based in the Netherlands, accused Mr. Akhmetshin of hacking into its computer systems, stealing confidential information and unlawfully disseminating it as part of a smear campaign orchestrated by a rival Russian mining firm.
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In it, the former ambassador describes the stunning sequence of events that led to her sudden ouster from her post in April — a sequence that started with a smear campaign against her from Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney.
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Even more disconcerting than the resignations and firings, however, is the ongoing smear campaign against McMaster himself, a three-star Army general who has served his country with distinction in numerous war zones across multiple deployments over a span of decades.
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On Friday, former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch is due to testify; her sudden recall last spring has angered many State Department diplomats, who feel Pompeo should have backed her in the face of a smear campaign orchestrated by Giuliani.
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Mr. Kenny failed at first to give a complete account of when he learned of the false abuse allegations, and has insisted that he knew nothing of a broader smear campaign — an assertion that his critics in Parliament have contested.
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Another whistle-blower, Superintendent David Taylor, a former police press officer, has come forward to say that the existence of a smear campaign against Sergeant McCabe was widely known within the police force and by his superiors, including Commissioner Noirin O'Sullivan.
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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani continued a string of attacks on Tuesday against Marie Yovanovitch, who was abruptly ousted as the US&aposs ambassador to Ukraine this year following a smear campaign against her by Giuliani and President Donald Trump.
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Yovanovitch, meanwhile, was forced out as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine amid a smear campaign by Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who accused her of being disloyal to the president while Giuliani was spearheading a shadow foreign policy operation.
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In the real world, if the GND looks like it has any chance of becoming a reality, it will face a giant right-wing smear campaign, coordinated across conservative media, think tanks, and politicians, funded by effectively unlimited fossil fuel wealth.
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Navigating lore and history gets a bit "turtles all the way down," but Al-Durr may have been discredited in the aftermath after she lost her power as a sort of reputational smear campaign that King Richard III also suffered.
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WASHINGTON — John Sullivan, the deputy secretary of state, said on Wednesday that President Trump's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was involved in a smear campaign to oust the ambassador to Ukraine, publicly confirming a key part of the saga behind the impeachment inquiry.
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John Sullivan, the deputy secretary of state and President Trump's nominee for ambassador to Russia, said at his confirmation hearing today that he was aware of a smear campaign designed to oust Ms. Yovanovitch, and that he suspected Rudy Giuliani was behind it.
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It happened in late July, when Trump enjoyed a slim national lead only to destroy it with a bizarre convention featuring an angry, ranting acceptance speech followed by a weeks-long smear campaign against Gold Star parents whose son died in Iraq.
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Addison's article prompted Sanchez to post a 583-word paragraph to Facebook yesterday morning, one that's since been edited heavily, wherein she incorrectly associated Addison with Foodbeast and equates the level of vitriol she's received to a smear campaign against her business.
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In the documents, the producer is eager for Gaga to hand over her text messages between her and Kesha – conversations in which Kesha allegedly told Gaga she'd been abused by Luke, and imploring Gaga to join a 'smear campaign against [Dr. Luke].
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But its reputation took a more recent hit when it was found to have hired as many as 30 teams to conduct an online smear campaign against left-leaning politicians during the presidential election in 2012, including the liberal candidate, Moon Jae-in.
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In a statement given to Katherine Faulders of ABC News on Friday, Fairfax's office demanded an official investigation into the accusations, which he described as "unsubstantiated" and part of a "vicious and coordinated smear campaign" against him, and said he would not resign.
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Either way, the potential of this seems insane for a number of reasons, first among which are suggestions that Apple was actively engaging in a smear campaign against Tidal last year, and secondly Tidal owner Jay Z's general disdain for the company.
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His lawyer, Joshua Levy, said Simpson has cooperated with three other congressional committees, but he would not with this one because he viewed this GOP-led investigation as a smear campaign against the FBI and Justice Department, and particularly against Mueller's investigation.
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WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to fill a vacant seat at the Federal Reserve said on Sunday there was a "smear campaign" being waged against him, after past writings and comments about women sparked renewed criticism by Democratic lawmakers.
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But when Hundley ran for reelection this year, she became the victim of a sexualized smear campaign: Photos of her clad in underwear at Burning Man were posted on a website called "Rachel Hundley Exposed," according to the Press Democrat, a local newspaper.
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Check out more videos from VICE: When earlier this year the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights accused the military of massacres, torture, gang rapes, and use of land mines, Suu Kyi's administration accused the UN of a smear campaign.
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Earlier this week he threatened to unleash a smear campaign against Alexander Vindman, a White House national security official and decorated Iraq War veteran who testified that the White House left out some phrases from a memo summarizing the July 25 Ukraine call.
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Yovanovitch testified to Congress that Trump and Giuliani had been engaged in a smear campaign against her since the summer of 2018 because she refused to let Giuliani use the US embassy in Ukraine in his efforts to obtain dirt on the Bidens.
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On May 10, Spotify said it had removed the singer's music from its editorial playlists and would no longer promote it, a move the singer's team decried as part of an "ongoing smear campaign against him, waged by enemies seeking a payoff."
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In the run-up to the December 2012 election, Mr. Won directed a secret team of psychological warfare officials of his agency to work with hired private bloggers on an online smear campaign against Ms. Park's political rivals, according to the prosecutors' indictment.
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These sanctions along with other U.S. allegations of trade theft and fraud all coincide with a mounting U.S.-China trade war, leading Huawei, who denies these accusations, to claim the U.S. is resorting to a smear campaign since its companies can't compete.
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In the lead-up to the 2012 election, Mr. Won directed a secret team of psychological warfare agents to work with hired private bloggers on an online smear campaign against Ms. Park's political rivals, including Mr. Moon, according to the prosecutors' indictment.
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He concluded the first day with a call for senators to "show the courage" that witnesses like Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was the subject of a smear campaign by Trump associates, showed in testifying over the president's wishes.
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In the interview, Pompeo claimed he had "defended every State Department official," but when asked, refused to cite an example of his defense of Yovanovitch, who was removed from her post after a smear campaign directed by Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
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Multiple witnesses detailed what they viewed as a smear campaign by Trump's allies to oust U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie YovanovitchMarie YovanovitchGiuliani pursued financial deals in Ukraine while seeking probes for Trump: reports Pompeo-Trump relationship tested by impeachment inquiry State Dept.
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But the eye-popping nature of those claims suddenly gave Republicans an opportunity to shift the narrative away from Ford's allegations and make a broader case that the growing accusations of sexual misconduct amounted to an orchestrated Democratic smear campaign, something Sen.
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And why would Donald Trump instruct the new team he put in place, the three Amigos – Gordon Sondland, Rick Perry and Kurt Volker -- to work with the same man, Rudy Giuliani, who played such a central role in the smear campaign against her?
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is trying to end what he calls a "smear" campaign, while Christine Blasey Ford says it's her civic duty to share her account of the decades-old sexual assault that she says has "haunted" her as an adult.
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CNN reported the objection came in a letter Wednesday night to the Times executive editor, Dean Baquet, from Biden deputy campaignmanager Kate Bedingfield, who called the decision to run the column an "active participation" in a "smear campaign" against the former vice president.
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Veteran NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw mounted a scorching denial of allegations that he made unwanted advances on a young colleague in the 1990s, claiming in an email to several NBC News employees that he had been "ambushed" by a public smear campaign.
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Over the weekend, a GOP talking point emerged that Trump was well within his rights to choose his own team, a response to Yovanovitch public recounting of the smear campaign orchestrated by Trump's allies to push her from her post in Kiev.
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Reeker's testimony provided more details on the efforts inside the State Department to defend former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was removed from her post earlier this year amid a smear campaign led by the President's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
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"I'm being attacked by liars and thieves in a witch hunt of the lowest caliber," Mr. Neschling said in an interview, arguing that he is the victim of a smear campaign by self-acknowledged lawbreakers who are seeking leniency through plea deals.
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Yovanovitch, a career diplomat who is widely respected at the State Department, testified that she had been ousted from her ambassadorship after becoming the target of a smear campaign by Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and received a standing ovation for it.
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During that time, she became the target of a smear campaign led by Mr. Giuliani, two of his associates — Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who have since been indicted on a scheme to violate campaign finance laws — and the right-wing news media.
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After years of scandals plaguing the ride-hailing giant — from Susan Fowler's sexual harassment allegations to a Google lawsuit over stolen intellectual property to a smear campaign against a rape victim — investors demanded he step down from his post, which he did.
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His wife, Darla, meanwhile, has a habit of tweeting inaccurate anti-vaccination memes and a ton of racist stuff, but leading conservative commentators take the view that, since they are nice to their friends, quoting her accurately amounts to a liberal smear campaign.
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