Friendly fire is a thing.
He wanted to be president and had connections to "radical republicans". So did Stanton. Turned out Johnson was better positioned.
>Weren't Dems comparing Trump to Johnson during the 1st and 2nd impeachment hearings? What was that about?
Yeah, I think they were. I'm not sure why they were doing that, honestly, since you kinda have to be a psycho to think like them. I'd guess, however, that they were trying to make it out like he had connived to get the Presidency with foreign powers. Seward made a deal with Russia back in the day that was during Johnson's time as I recall.