1968: operatives working for Republican Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon contacted the North Vietnamese and offered them a better peace deal that LBJ was, if they'd just put off signing until after the election. This temporarily scuttled the Paris peace talks and contributed to the election of Nixon. Oh, by the way, there was no better deal...and countless more people died as a result.
1980: operatives working for Republican Presidential candidate Ronald W. Reagan contacted the Iranians and offered them a better deal if they'd hold off releasing their American hostages, which President Carter had been negotiating, until after the election. They did. Reagan won, and at least in this case the Iranians got something: arms.
2016: operatives working for Republican Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump received repeated offers of "help" from the Russians. They reported none of this to the FBI. They changed the party's platform to favor Russia. They accepted "aid" from Russian hackers. Trump "won" and ever since he's bent over backward to favor Vladimir Putin.
As a bonus, let's not forget the plot to overthrow FDR, cobbled together by a number of bankers and industrialists, all of them Republicans terrified by the New Deal. That one didn't work, but it sure wasn't for lack of trying.
Treason. Treason. Treason. Treason.
Just something to remember as we honor our war dead...
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