Fourth, Ben is now claiming that they did this at the behest of Bill Casey, you know, Reagan’s campaign manager. But they had plenty of reason to despise Carter and wanna hurt him politically without any intercession by folks in the Reagan campaign. First, the Reagan campaign absolutely was monitoring carefully the plight of the hostages and the question that they’re going to be released or not. So let’s let’s turn to another case where there was some skullduggery which is more recent and still has some contemporary resonance, which is the twenty sixteen election campaign. I mean, you know, Nixon, you know, Sandi eventually has a plan too.

Source: New York Times May 18, 2023 18:41 UTC