I appreciate SD's whittling Trump's statements down to the bare bones, and it's obvious that Trump lied once again (what is that, thirteen thousand consecutive lies now?) and he lied for the usual reason, to counter what he hates worse than poor people, and that is people in power who criticize him.

As I wrote earlier, I dislike people who falsely claim military honors they didn't earn, or get. Blumenthal served in the military, he should have kept it to that. But Trump obviously accused Blumenthal of making claims that Blumenthal did not make. That was defamation, and since it was publicly published (via television) defamation, it was libel and slander both. "Wetting a river" notwithstanding.