New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy
Martin says
one of his primary opponents, former General Don Bolduc, must withdraw as a candidate
to save New Hampshire Republicans from further embarrassment. The Washington
Post exposed on July 9th that Bolduc’s “campaign” had created misleading
video suggestions that Bolduc was one of the “Horse Soldiers” in Afghanistan,
when that was not true. “Bolduc’s campaign has been a train wreck since he
announced,” Andy says. “The finding that his ‘campaign’ deserves ‘two Pinocchios’
for misleading campaign videos that suggested Bolduc was part of a specific military
operation, the Horse Soldiers, when he was not, is a campaign killer for the ailing
general.” Andy says the Bolduc campaign fraud also exposes the corruption and
incompetence of the Union Leader newspaper and the Hearst-owned WMUR-TV, who
failed to report on Bolduc’s exaggerations.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
(MANCHESTER, NH) (July 15, 2020)
Dear Granite State Voter:
It looks like Don Bolduc is the most incompetent, or devious, U. S.
Senate candidate in New Hampshire history. When he announced his candidacy, I pointed
out Bolduc used a convicted stock swindler to narrate his announcement. (Please
see link [1] below.) Last year Bolduc suggested Senator Mitch McConnell’s operatives
were supporting Bolduc. Where’s Mitch? Mitch dumped Bolduc like a hot potato.
(More phony reporting form New Hampshire’s media.)
Earlier this year Bolduc showed a total lack of awareness of the Civil
War, a fatal flaw for a retired soldier. (Please see link [2] blow.)
Now the Washington Post, using an exquisite distinction, has awarded two
“Pinocchios” (liar’s points) to Bolduc’s “campaign” for using a video associating
Bolduc with a military operation, the “Horse Soldiers,” when Bolduc never participated
in that operation.
The “Horse Soldiers” were men who fought in northern Afghanistan;
a movie was made about them. Bolduc was in southern Afghanistan. He was
never part of the actual Horse Soldiers. Yet his campaign issued videos
suggesting he was part of the group when he was not.
The Washington Post says Bolduc’s “campaign” has been trying to mislead
voters about his service.
You can read the Washington Post for yourself (link [3]). No reasonable
person can deny that Bolduc has allowed his “campaign” to mislead the media. In
the military, fine distinctions between operations mean everything when it comes
to claiming credit for service in actual battles. The men who landed on
Normandy Beach on D-Day were unique. If you landed on Normandy Beach two days
later, you could not say you landed on D-Day.
To be clear, and as I have said before, I honor Don’s service to the
nation and admire him. I have been shot at and targeted in various war zones. I
know what Don went through. But his honorable service is not a blank check to
be a senate candidate. And no one can hide behind military service to commit
campaign fraud as Bolduc’s “campaign” did. The Washington Post distinguished between
lies made by Bolduc’s “campaign,” and lies by Bolduc himself. Voters will not
make the same fine separation.
Bolduc has no idea how to be a candidate, or run a campaign. In some sense,
I feel sorry for him. He is being misused by his supporters and advisers. I
warned this would happen, and it is.
Here’s the sad part. Or the shocking part. Neither the Union Leader nor
WMUR took notice of the embarrassing national story in the Washington Post exposing
their professional gullibility and incompetence because they failed to report
on Bolduc’s misleading campaign. The effort by the Union Leader to cover-up the
UL’s own journalistic incompetence about Bolduc’s exaggerations speaks for
itself about that newspaper’s failure as media.
WMUR’s John DiStaso merely shuffles press releases on his desk and
computer; he rarely does any original reporting. DiStaso fell for the Bolduc’s “Campaign”
fraud hook, line and sinker.
Can you trust New Hampshire’s home-grown media liars? Hell no.
They do more to hide the truth than report it.
As I have said so often. New Hampshire’s media are a disgrace. Over and
over again national media have had to come in to New Hampshire to expose local
media fraud. Likewise, the efforts by a Bolduc supporter in the Union Leader, Brendan
Finn, to rouge up Bolduc’s campaign dishonesty was an ongoing effort to mislead
New Hampshire voters. It will not succeed.
Can Bolduc continue his campaign as a retired military hero when his “campaign”
has now been exposed as a political fraud? Doubtful. Bolduc has refused to make
a full disclosure of how the misleading images in his campaign videos,
suggesting he was a Horse Soldier, were photoshopped. Bolduc’s refusal to make
the producer of his campaign videos available for searching examination is
circumstantial evidence he knows he has been caught in a fraud. But then he
also had a convicted stock swindler as a narrator when he announced his
candidacy (link [1] below). Bolduc hopes the scandal will blow over. It won’t.
There is a military term for what Bolduc did: stolen valor. Bolduc has
a distinguished military career. Why exaggerate his record by claiming credit
for an operation where he never served? Because for Don Bolduc, too much is never
enough. He can tap dance around the topic all he wants, but he never was a
Horse Soldier; his campaign video efforts to suggest he was do an injustice to the
many people of New Hampshire who are supporting him. His “defense” claim now
that they also used horses in southern Afghanistan is pathetic. They also used
asses.
Don Bolduc should apologize and withdraw before he further embarrasses himself.
Bolduc’s “campaign” has made Bolduc a later day “Tail Gunner Joe,” another
senate candidate who exaggerated his military career.
Is Don Bolduc a serious candidate for the senate? Don’t make me laugh. Are
New Hampshire’s media crooked and incompetent? Don’t make me cry.
For shame.
Sincerely,
Andy
P.S. We have more research on Bolduc to come out in the days ahead; we
are behind schedule on our promised “Bolduc Week” exposés. You may be surprised
by what we know; Bolduc will be embarrassed.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/09/campaign-nh-senate-hopeful-uses-photo-trickery-hoodwink-reporters/
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He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the
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at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).
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