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Appearing as a panel member on Tuesday’s CNN Tonight, CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley repeated as if were fact the claim that Ronald Reagan’s campaign in 1980 pressed the Iranian government to delay the release of the Americans held hostage to hurt President Jimmy Carter’s reelection chances.
Neither host Don Lemon nor fellow CNN presidential historian Timothy Naftali noted that a Democratic Congress failed to find evidence of such illicit activity when they investigated the October Surprise conspiracy theory in the early 1990s. – READ MORE