Clinton-Trump parallelisms via Daniel Nexon — whassay?
Tuesday, July 11th, 2017[ by Charles Cameron — more on the digging dirt / foreign sources story ]
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It’s all too easy to lose sight of the intriguing parallelism here — but symmetries are worth watching, often revelatory. Good catch by Daniel Nexon:
1. Accusations in this @politico story about the Clinton campaign are potentially analogous with the Trump mess. https://t.co/FgQp1OM8hD
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) July 11, 2017
2. But that analogy is not a shield for Don Jr., Jared, and the rest.
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) July 11, 2017
3. Members of the Trump omitted multiple contacts—including one now explicitly revealed to involve attempted collusion—from their SF-86s.
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) July 11, 2017
4. At least some of the same people lied repeatedly about their activities and engaged in a concerted campaign of deception to hide them
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) July 11, 2017
5. But, most importantly, we can't deal in the hypothetical. It's possible that Clinton and her people would've been in the same boat.
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) July 11, 2017
6. We'll never know, though, because she's not POTUS.
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) July 11, 2017
7. The relevant parties in the Clinton campaign aren't running the White House. the biz interests of the President, and/or getting the PDB.
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) July 11, 2017
8. So, maybe Clinton would be looking at possible impeachment for collusion with Kiev. With this Congress, I'm sure it would be a live issue
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) July 11, 2017
9. Ultimately, such whataboutism is a distraction. Don Jr's revelations have massive national-security implications. Full stop. The end.
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) July 11, 2017
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From January: Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire:
Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.
Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
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Your thoughts? — valuable since they’ll no doubt differ from mine..
