Sentences with phrase «part of a smear campaign»

Latimer claimed without foundation that the Astorino campaign was attempting to use the «rumor» of his relationship with Kettner as part of a smear campaign while the opposite was the case, the part about the affair was true and the part about Astorino using it against him was false.

A few days later, TÜBİTAK denied censoring the books, saying that the newspaper stories were part of a smear campaign.

Gary Webb would later become a part of a smear campaign that threatened his kids, his wife, family, and life.

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She rejected Porter's public assertions that the claims were part of a «coordinated smear campaign» against him.

This week, Mr. Trump and his allies seized on the fact that Democrats had paid the firm for the research as evidence that the dossier was part of a political smear campaign.

Grimm's attorney promptly released a statement denying the allegations, calling Weiner's remarks part of a «Democratic smear campaign.»

The company has suspended its CEO, Alexander Nix, who was filmed as part of a Channel 4 investigation giving examples of how the firm could swing elections around the world with underhand tactics such as smear campaigns and honey traps.

The criminal theft, release, and misrepresentation of private emails from the University of East Anglia immediately prior to the Copenhagen Climate Summit last December was part of a carefully orchestrated smear campaign against the climate science community timed to thwart any binding international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

A particularly low - effort hoax spreading online in March 2018 — part of a wave of attempted smear campaigns directed at survivors of a February 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida who are calling for stricter gun - control legislation — has led some people to accuse one of the Parkland, Florida mass shooting survivors of vandalism.