WikiLeaks posted an email exchange that it claims shows top Hillary Clinton campaign staff discussing a "swift boat project" aimed at Donald J. Trump.
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swift-boat
VERB
[WITH OBJECT]informal- Target (a politician or public figure) with a campaign of personal attacks.‘when he got swift-boated, his campaign staffers didn't sit silently’‘organized smearing and swift-boating of public figures’
Origin
2004: with allusion to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a political action committee that funded an advertising campaign criticizing 2004 US presidential candidate Senator John Kerry's record of military service aboard a swift boat, a type of US Navy patrol craft, during the Vietnam War.
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