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Texas Politician Says He Sabotaged Release of U.S. Embassy Hostages To Prevent Carter’s Re-election

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Texas Politician Says He Sabotaged Release of U.S. Embassy Hostages To Prevent Carter’s Re-election

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    Isn’t this a crime of some sort?

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      We all knew about this, it was one of the way the Republicans cheated to get Regan elected. The guy who ruined everything.

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      Only if a Democrat does it

    • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyz
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      And this way treason charges need to come back.

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      Probably, except now you can exchange money and blow jobs for pardons so who cares about some light treason?

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        It’s just weird to me that stuff like this is coming out while some of the major players are still alive and I can be absolutely certain there won’t be any accountability. (And yeah, I totally get that that shouldn’t be weird, given what we all understand about how the US works.)

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          Like Ollie North still making TV appearances. Imagine Benedict Arnold or Robert E. Lee going on Fox News to accuse Democrats of treason and no one bats an eye.

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            If Robert E Lee or Benedict Arnold came onto Fox News, there would be far bigger implications than just honoring a traitor.

            Such as…who has access to these time machines?

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      Nah… Nixon did the same thing with Vietnam and he famously was not a crook. [/s]

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      Just treason, nbd

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    This is not new…Reagan sabotaged Carter by pressuring (through Connally I guess? I’d guess others too) the Iranians to keep the hostages until Reagan was elected

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    That’s great … so by this logic, we’ll be able to see political figures acting out against this current Trump administration in about 50 years from now.

    There’s hope for American yet.

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    This was known in the 80s. It is not like it is new information.

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      yeah but over time this, the hanging chads, it builds up.

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    You have to wonder how much Iranian politicians regretted that decision 8-12 years later.

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    Seems like a good reason. Here’s a T to go along with it.

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