Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims
The Hartford Courant | By Kaitlin McCallum
Published October 08, 2025 at 5:45 pm
President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing.
Trump called for an investigation in a Truth Social post into long-discussed allegations that Blumenthal lied about his military record in 2008. Trump previously brought up the allegations during his first term as a way to rebut Blumenthal’s frequent criticisms. Blumenthal has in the past publicly addressed the issue, which arose following a New York Times article.
The article refers to a video in which Blumenthal told a group of veterans in Norwalk in March 2008, “We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam …”
Just weeks after the murder of Charlie Kirk prompted calls to tone down rhetoric and eschew political violence, Trump wrote, “Sanctimonious Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, perhaps the biggest “joke” in the United States Senate, is at it again! … perhaps the greatest phony in the history of the United States Senate. He should be allowed to speak no longer!”
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/10/08/trump-targets-blumenthal-calling-investigation-senators-vietnam-service-claims.html
