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Originally Posted by Not Bob
Sebby forgot an actual comparable event.
Nixon's collusion in October 1968 with agents of the Republic of China (Madame Chiang and Anna Chennault) to persuade South Vietnam to reject the tentative peace deal that the Johnson Administration had negotiated in Paris with North Vietnam and the Viet Cong to scuttle Humphrey's election. Just like in 2016, American intelligence found out about it, and a furious LBJ accused Nixon of treason. But he did nothing. Had news of Nixon's perfidy (and the thousands of American deaths/maybe millions of SE Asian deaths) he caused come out, he have actually died in prison. Politics as usual?
One could argue that the Federalist Party's use of the XYZ Affair (Tallyrand demanded bribes from American envoys to negotiate some issues between Revolutionary France and the US) to attack Thomas Jefferson is analogous, but Nixon's collusion with RoC and SVN agents to prevent a peace deal that would have elected HHH is pretty close to Trump.
Carry on.
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Indeed, these are your two events comparable to Putin's Puppet.
But the Russian Affair is just one of a myriad of sins Trump is committing. True, Nixon had some other pretty serious sins as well, but he took a few years to commit them. And being compared to Nixon is not exactly a way of praising someone.
