One of the lemmas of the multiverse is: “Tell a Democrat, tell the enemy.”
Heh, waiting for the studies crowd to figure out what a lemma is. Hint, it’s not that insurance company’s new token animal.
“Tell a Democrat, tell the enemy.”
And its no recent development.
During WW2 Rep Andrew May (D-KY) was chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee.
During a junket to Hawaii in 1943 he was briefed by the naval station at Pearl Harbor. When he returned to DC he held a press conference and disclosed that US subs were escaping Japanese depth charge attacks by diving deeper than the Japanese thought the subs could go. The press ran with the leak and soon after the Pacific sub fleet suffered a string of 10 submarine losses.
Admiral Charles Lockwood stated “I hear Congressman May said the Jap depth charges are not set deep enough. He would be pleased to know that the Japs set them deeper now.”
Congressman May also lobbied the Defense dept for the Garsson brothers who were awarded military contracts to supply 4.2 inch mortar shells even though they had no munitions experience.
Unfortunately for US troops the Garsson brothers produced shells with defective fuzes causing some to explode in the tube or even before they were dropped into the tube.
For his efforts on behalf of the Garssons and other “irregularities” May lost his reelection race in 1946.
In 1947 he and both Garsson brothers were convicted of war profiteering.
The jury took only two hours to return the guilty verdict.
May was pardoned by President Harry Truman.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_J._May