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Originally Posted by crockett
A previous example of this sort of thing was Reagan making a deal with Iran to hold US hostages until after the election to make Carter look bad. That was illegal as hell but Reagan got away with it.
Aka the October Suprise..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octo...spiracy_theory
That set the stage for the later Iran Conta funding..
Theses are things for which Reagan is a hero to the Right, but rather was actually a traitor to the US.. and now his fall guy Ollie North is president of the NRA and former Fox news host..
This of course was 10 years after Nixon being forced to resign after Watergate.. Republicans have a long history of pissing on our Consitution and rule of law.. |
This right here is why it's illegal for campaigns to work with foreign governments. Reagan made a back door deal with the Iranian government BEFORE he got into office, and when he got into office he had to repay the favor or faced being blackmailed. The end result of that was the Iran Contra affair.
I wasn't much into politics back then but I loved Reagan, and of course at the time everyone was happy about the hostages being released.... but the truth is a lot of laws got broken.