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Originally Posted by Three Wolves In Snow
How in the hell does it make it a smear against her?
She was the victim.
In what way were they going to spin that to make her the 'disgraced' one in the story?
I know the Dems twist everything around, but you have to be one of the lowest class of people to try turn an assault on a victim into 'she was a disgraced military officer'.
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She washed out of the military on bad performance. The claim is it was retaliation for reporting the sexual harassment. It's kind of nuanced. Washing out on bad performance is public interest for a politician, particularly one emphasizing their service record.
It's not really clear. Politico may have said fine, we won't mention the sexual assault complaint part but we're running the fact that you got does not meet standards and that you were washed out. My guess is that's what happened, or at least that's what they should have done. Of course that doesn't look good so then she felt forced to tell her side of the story which was she was washed out in retaliation for reporting sexual assault.