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Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal blasts 'false and defamatory' Russia investigation book
The Washington Examiner ^ | 4 November 2019 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 11/04/2019 8:20:38 PM PST by Steely Tom

Clinton family ally Sidney Blumenthal said a new book telling of a "deep state" plot to undermine President Trump contained "factual errors" about him and that he asked the publisher to correct them.

An Oct. 25 Fox News report cited a source who said Blumenthal sent "threatening letters" to investigative journalist Lee Smith and his publisher Center Street, a division of Hachette Book Group, in an effort to stop the publication of Smith's book because he viewed it as defamatory.

But the source said the publisher's legal team found the threat to be "meritless," and the book, The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History, was released on Tuesday.

Fox News reported they had reached out to Blumenthal for comment but that he had not yet replied. A follow-up report published Sunday, based on an interview Smith did on Sunday Morning Futures, also said he had not responded yet.

Blumenthal told the Washington Examiner on Monday that this is untrue and that he replied to a producer of The Ingraham Angle. "I have requested that certain falsehoods about me be corrected and not circulated or aired," he said he wrote to Fox News.

Blumenthal also said he communicated with the publisher about the book, which he described as "false and defamatory."

"I called to the attention of Mr. Smith's publisher his factual errors and requested that they be corrected. Rather than correct his falsehoods, he is now attempting to promote his book by recklessly disregarding the truth," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2020election; blumenthal; california; centerstreet; codyshearer; devinnunes; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; fisa; jonathanwiner; leesmith; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; rodrosenstein; russia; sidneyblumenthal; smearmachine

1 posted on 11/04/2019 8:20:38 PM PST by Steely Tom
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To: Steely Tom

Lee Smith, the author, owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Blumenthal...without his help, there is simply NO WAY the book would already be at #7 on Amazon.


2 posted on 11/04/2019 8:27:57 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't te Don't tell anyone.)
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To: BobL

B17 pilot to bombardier “ok Smith the plane is yours”. Bombardier Smith ”Yes sir! Target is in sight. Dropping now! You have the plane, let’s go home”. If your getting flak you’re over the target.


3 posted on 11/04/2019 8:36:56 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: Steely Tom

If the Hillary Palace Eunuch is throwing a hissy fit, you know it must be true.


4 posted on 11/04/2019 8:39:48 PM PST by MuttTheHoople
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To: Steely Tom

Well, that proves that it’s all true, then.


5 posted on 11/04/2019 8:42:46 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (‘When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.’)
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To: Steely Tom
Hey Sid!

Do you remember the author who wrote:

"Me thinks thou protest too much."?

6 posted on 11/04/2019 8:43:51 PM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Seems like Sydney has been having a bad week.

Didn’t his son get tagged in court this last week. Cannot recall why.


7 posted on 11/04/2019 8:45:59 PM PST by ptsal
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To: ptsal
Didn’t his son get tagged in court this last week. Cannot recall why.

Mopery.


8 posted on 11/04/2019 8:49:49 PM PST by Rastus
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To: ptsal

That eunuch actually bred?


9 posted on 11/04/2019 8:52:49 PM PST by MuttTheHoople
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To: Steely Tom

Then sue yet then you loser!

“False and defamatory”? SUE THEN GENIUS ! Protect your supposed honor !

We No you won’t ! you sniveling coward loser piece of crap!


10 posted on 11/04/2019 8:57:25 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Truthoverpower

Then sue yet then you loser!

“False and defamatory”? SUE THEN GENIUS ! Protect your supposed honor !

We No you won’t ! you sniveling coward loser piece of crap!


Ha!! This was exactly my first thought when I read ‘ol Sid’s tripe.


11 posted on 11/04/2019 9:02:41 PM PST by Texaspeptoman (Even cannibals... get fed up with people sometimes.)
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To: Steely Tom

Sidney Blumenthal is the type of Jew who would have been right at home helping the Nazi’s throw other Jews in the ovens.

I hope to God he gets his.


12 posted on 11/04/2019 9:05:06 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: Steely Tom

I got to get a copy of that book...


13 posted on 11/04/2019 9:16:17 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: aquila48

The problem is the same people read books. The rest get the story from MSM. If Sid’s panties are in a wad it’s hitting very close. At least, if we read it and find someone willing to listen we will know what to say. I’m with you it is a serious must read for me.


14 posted on 11/04/2019 9:26:21 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: Steely Tom

Blumenthal sent “threatening letters” to investigative journalist Lee Smith and his publisher in an effort to stop the publication of Smith’s book.

The publisher’s legal team found the threat to be “meritless,” and the book, The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History, was released on Tuesday.


15 posted on 11/04/2019 11:07:47 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Equine1952

“If Sid’s panties are in a wad it’s hitting very close.”


16 posted on 11/04/2019 11:09:47 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Steely Tom

Blumenthal is Hillary’s resident psychopathic hitman. Time to take him to court and make him pay good.

Might also execute his communist son just to make sure that family no longer breeds. Even the German Communists called the kid a psychopathic communist.

Vile is just EVIL spelled backwards and that is what Blumenthal and Soros are.


17 posted on 11/05/2019 12:34:15 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Steely Tom

I bought his book its on back order, and the only error here is sid


18 posted on 11/05/2019 2:35:20 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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