Since when did Two Wrongs Make a Right stop being a logical Fallacy?
I'm not really convinced Ted did anything horrible. He didn't sell secrets. He may have run a shadow diplomatic mission, but according to the documents, he basically offered to meet and facilitate arms negotiations with the Soviets. That would probably have enhanced his own ability if he'd run against Reagan in 84. Of course Reagan himself had affected the 1980 election with the Iranians.
The question with Trump is very simple. Was his son Eric being truthful when he said a greater % of investment income into their ventures came from Russia than came from other places? And if so, does that give Trump a motive to sell out Ukraine and Georgia and the Baltics?
Trump is a business man. I couldn't give a flying rats ass if he did business in Russia. Russia up till Obama and the EU backed the coup in the Ukraine and got called out for their dirty deeds was part of the G8 and had been for years.
Trump is doing nothing illegal.
Now Hillary on the other hand as Secretary of State facilitated a uranium deal with one of her Russian mega donors to her charity. I've put up her connections to all the Ukrainian oligarchs especially Pinchuk who has donated millions to the Clintons and benefited from the overthrow of a legally elected Ukrainian government.
You seem to prefer to ignore her links to all her shady donors.
Reagan affected the election in 1980 with the Iranians? Are you kidding? I'd say Carter affected his re-election with the Iranians. Not freaking Reagan.
As to what Teddy "the swimmer" Kennedy did over the election whoa geeze the letter he wrote to sabotage Reagan was highly suspect. if not absolutely treasonous. He blatantly asked the Soviets for help in defeating Reagan.
But you have no problem with Kennedy either. Just Trump. For being a smart ass.
“On 9-10 May of this year,” the May 14 memorandum explained, “Sen. Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow.” (Tunney was Kennedy’s law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) “The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.”
Kennedy’s message was simple.
He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. “The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations,” the memorandum stated. “These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.”
This is open, self-initiated collaboration with a rival power, and there’s a name for that sort of thing, “treason.” But that word is not associated with any Kennedy (at least not since Joe was Ambassador to the UK) because of the studious ignoring of the story coming from the Soviet archives."
Blog: Remember when Ted Kennedy asked the Soviets for help defeating Reagan?