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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 3628564" data-attributes="member: 48469"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/donald-trump-is-the-new-benedict-arnold-2018-07-16" target="_blank">Donald Trump is the new Benedict Arnold</a>&quot;Imagine, for a moment, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt had met with the Japanese delegation just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Imagine FDR saying: “My people came to me — they said they think it’s Japan. But I have the Japanese ambassador and he just said it’s not Japan. I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be.”FDR would have been whisked out of office by a unanimous vote.Obviously, the Russians didn’t sink the jewel of our Pacific fleet or kill thousands of Americans. But what they did was worse in a way: They attacked the heart of our nation, the American ideal that our government is and ought to be of the people. They spotted our weakness and they exploited our divisions for their own purposes. They sowed dissension, and made us question the legitimacy of our democratic process.The Russians may not have been instrumental in Trump’s election, but they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. The American president is a man who wants to be just like Vladimir Putin.Step aside, <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/benedict-arnold-turned-traitor-american-revolution-180958786/" target="_blank">Benedict Arnold</a>. There’s a new champion traitor in town.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 3628564, member: 48469"] [URL="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/donald-trump-is-the-new-benedict-arnold-2018-07-16"]Donald Trump is the new Benedict Arnold[/URL] "Imagine, for a moment, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt had met with the Japanese delegation just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Imagine FDR saying: “My people came to me — they said they think it’s Japan. But I have the Japanese ambassador and he just said it’s not Japan. I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be.” FDR would have been whisked out of office by a unanimous vote. Obviously, the Russians didn’t sink the jewel of our Pacific fleet or kill thousands of Americans. But what they did was worse in a way: They attacked the heart of our nation, the American ideal that our government is and ought to be of the people. They spotted our weakness and they exploited our divisions for their own purposes. They sowed dissension, and made us question the legitimacy of our democratic process. The Russians may not have been instrumental in Trump’s election, but they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. The American president is a man who wants to be just like Vladimir Putin. Step aside, [URL='https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/benedict-arnold-turned-traitor-american-revolution-180958786/']Benedict Arnold[/URL]. There’s a new champion traitor in town." [/QUOTE]

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