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Home Front: Politix
Virgil: The Real Siberian Candidate and the Deep State
2016-12-20
[Breitbart] The American politician, a presidential aspirant, was explicit in his secret-but-audacious message to the Russian leadership in Moscow: Help me win the White House, and then, once I’m in the Oval Office, I will return the favor.
"This is my last election ... After my election I have more flexibility"
The Russians carefully considered the American’s quid pro quo. And if it’s not so clear what Moscow actually did, or didn’t do, in response to the offer, well, what about Russia is clear? As Winston Churchill once said of the whole country, "It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."

So about the only thing we know for sure is that the American wanted to sell out his county for his own political advantage.

Is Virgil alleging treacherous machinations by Donald Trump, working with Vladimir Putin, to defeat Hillary Clinton?

Nyet! I am simply recalling the well-documented history of the multiple efforts by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) to conspire with Leonid Brezhnev and other leaders of the Soviet Union in the 70s and 80s, as he schemed to win the American presidency.

This disturbing bit of history was first reported in Great Britain in 1992, and has been recalled in the US many times since: notably, by historian Herbert Romerstein in 2003, by historian Paul Kengor in 2007, by writer Kevin Mooney in 2010, by Breitbart’s James Zumwalt on August 12, 2016, and by Mooney again on December 14.

Yet curiously, the Main Stream Media has never been interested in the voluminous Kennedy-Russia story.
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  ...cause their 'left behinds' in academia and the media are still working hard on that goal.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-12-20 14:07  

#2  Another difference is 1980 Soviet Union's goal was an enemy whose final goal was to destroy the United States while 2016 Russia ia no friend to United Staets but it is not her enemy, at least not her mortal enemy.
Posted by: JFM   2016-12-20 10:48  

#1  Surely it is only treasonous when Republicans court the Russian. The Democrats are simply having discussions with their colleagues and handlers.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-12-20 06:49  

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