A generation later, the accusation that 1980 GOP Candidate Ronald Reagan managed to get his VP nominee, George H.W. Bush, on a SR-71 to fly to Paris to secretly negotiate with the Iranian Mullahs on NOT RELEASING the Teheran Hostages until after the 1980 election, got the following response from top Democrats. “We have no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, but the seriousness of the allegations and the weight of circumstantial information compel an effort to establish the facts,” said House Speaker Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.) and Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Me.) in a joint statement.
Then, in more recent 'news', how about the last-minute attack accusation of a 30+ year old 'bad behavior' by Trump's Supreme Court nominee Bret Kavanaugh. Out of left field with a single person's vague memory that had no collaboration but generated a hell-storm of bad media and another near lynching of an innocent man.
Since ‘political speech’ is protected speech, they can and do say anything without regards to truth or facts................