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The accusation was trumped up by Richelieu as an excuse to destroy a Protestant stronghold.

He continues to maintain that the allegations are trumped up by left-wing opponents who cannot beat him politically.

They were charged with supporting a terrorist organization, an accusation that their supporters said had been trumped up by Syrian sympathizers in the Lebanese security services.

This case has been trumped up by Egypt's minister of planning and international cooperation, Fayza Abul Naga, an old Mubarak crony.

Opponents call most of these suicide claims "falsified," trumped up by the political leaders and media, which they say "converts" normal suicides into "political" ones.

He denied the charges, and his supporters say they were trumped up by corrupt officials trying to cover up an enormous tax fraud that the lawyer had uncovered.

ONE POLL HAS TRUMP UP BY 6 POINTS - Noah Bierman: "Donald Trump's lead over Hillary Clinton in the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times national tracking poll grew to nearly six percentage points on Thursday, his largest advantage since his post-convention bounce in July.

Since Duvall's character has, at the very least, committed an act of manslaughter, the issue of whether he's guilty of a premeditated killing seems a bit trumped up – not just by the local law enforcers, but by the movie.

In Russia, home to the highest number of injecting drug users in the world, trumped up drug offenses are used by police as an excuse to beat, torture, and rape vulnerable drug users and sex workers.

In Russia, home to the highest number of injecting drug users in the world, trumped up drug offences are used by police as an excuse to beat, torture and rape vulnerable drug users and sex workers.

While the government maintains that they would never deport someone based on trumped up charges by an autocratic or corrupt regime, they admit that there are no safeguards in place to stop future governments from doing so.