<div dir="ltr"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:0px;max-width:600px;width:600px;padding:0px"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="font-size:16px;line-height:22px;font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;padding:0px 0px 16px">Daivd Leonhardt, NY Times, Nov. 1, 2017<br><br>Trump and his media allies have tried to downplay his campaign’s Russia dealings by saying the Clinton campaign’s financing of the dossier was even worse. It’s classic <a href="http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=pMJKdIFVI6rkgsAPBvYIYG3uv2BuPN+mwjoDbZaSla9AMX35d42JZ5IEr4tmoY9JP8krutUZF7n1kmvjF+OMSh1AA7FjL2R5io5ptqxa3WXGoXGnr7g7XaQINWyDRO7jefEwl34USJ8F8rPUxsyCaLHjf8m97bZ/yagsg5FMjIiJkKwxH4vK/Q==&campaign_id=69&instance_id=105703&segment_id=115475&user_id=4a205c5a62f3a4293ec5342704c0aac0®i_id=29749741" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(50,104,145)">whataboutism</a>, and it’s part of Trump’s effort to sow confusion about the allegations against him.</td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="font-size:16px;line-height:22px;font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;padding:0px 0px 16px">It’s also a silly comparison. Clinton’s campaign was engaging in the usual, if tough, practice of trying to uncover information that makes an opponent look bad. Trump’s campaign, by contrast, was potentially colluding with a foreign government hostile to the United States to disseminate stolen material — with Trump then lying about it and trying to prevent a federal investigation of it.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div> <div style="height:auto;width:auto"> <div> <div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><div><span style="font-size:13.3333px">A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. </span><br style="font-size:13.3333px"><br style="font-size:13.3333px"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">-Greek proverb</span></div><div><br>
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not
in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it
without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your
own understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.<br>
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--Immanuel Kant<br>
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