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GOP Candidate Accused of Lying About Being Shot in Afghanistan
Published Oct 18, 2024 at 11:25 PM EDT
Jon Tester and Tim Sheehy's Fiery Montana Debate: Five Key Takeaways
By Kaitlin Lewis
Night Reporter
Montana GOP U.S. Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy is again facing pushback over his account of sustaining a bullet wound in his arm while deployed overseas.
https://www.newsweek.com/gop-candidate-accused-lying-about-being-shot-afghanistan-1971591

My feeling is the normalization of Trump's (also Vance's and others now) lies and their attacks on the press, the legal system and other democratic institutions represents a pinnacle of American domestic shame of the past decade:

"I keep coming back to the boiling frog thing, because we’ve somehow managed to normalize our way into a coin flip for the nuclear codes with a decomposing sex offender whose closing argument is “Harvey Weinstein got schlonged.”"