Imagine what comes out about Trump... 
NYTimes confirmed Rockefeller worked with Reagan to sabotage Jimmy Carter
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Breh wtf you talking about? Reagan still blew out Carter in the race. The outcome would have been the same without this
Reagan won 44 states. So it shouldn’t be a shock the media didn’t bring up the NYTimes story. You make it seem like it was a close election like JFK and Nixon
Reagan won 44 states. So it shouldn’t be a shock the media didn’t bring up the NYTimes story. You make it seem like it was a close election like JFK and Nixon
Carter was up in the polls early in 1980 and also running even with Reagan weeks before the election. Reagan ended up winning by 10 points.
Thom Hartmann: The Past 5 GOP Presidents Have Used Fraud and Treason to Steer Themselves to Electoral Victory – Alternet.org
The third was Ronald Reagan, elected in 1980.
He won thanks to a little something called the October Surprise - when his people sabotaged then-President Jimmy Carter’s negotiations to release American hostages in Iran.
According to Iran’s then-president, Reagan’s people promised the Iranians that if they held off on releasing the American hostages until just after the election - then Reagan would give them a sweet weapons deal.
In 1980, Carter thought he had reached a deal with newly-elected Iranian President Abdolhassan Bani-Sadr over the release of the fifty-two hostages held by radical students at the American Embassy in Tehran.
Bani-Sadr was a moderate and, as he explained in an editorial for The Christian Science Monitor earlier this year, had successfully run for President on the popular position of releasing the hostages:
"I openly opposed the hostage-taking throughout the election campaign.... I won the election with over 76 percent of the vote.... Other candidates also were openly against hostage-taking, and overall, 96 percent of votes in that election were given to candidates who were against it [hostage-taking]."
Carter was confident that with Bani-Sadr's help, he could end the embarrassing hostage crisis that had been a thorn in his political side ever since it began in November of 1979. But Carter underestimated the lengths his opponent in the 1980 Presidential election, California Governor Ronald Reagan, would go to win an election.
Behind Carter's back, the Reagan campaign worked out a deal with the leader of Iran's radical faction - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini - to keep the hostages in captivity until after the 1980 Presidential election.
This was nothing short of treason. The Reagan campaign's secret negotiations with Khomeini - the so-called "October Surprise" - sabotaged Carter and Bani-Sadr's attempts to free the hostages. And as Bani-Sadr told The Christian Science Monitor in March of 2013:
After arriving in France [in 1981], I told a BBC reporter that I had left Iran to expose the symbiotic relationship between Khomeinism and Reaganism.
Ayatollah Khomeini and Ronald Reagan had organized a clandestine negotiation, later known as the “October Surprise,” which prevented the attempts by myself and then-US President Jimmy Carter to free the hostages before the 1980 US presidential election took place. The fact that they were not released tipped the results of the election in favor of Reagan.
And Reagan’s treason - just like Nixon’s treason - worked perfectly.
The Iran hostage crisis continued and torpedoed Jimmy Carter's re-election hopes.
And the same day Reagan took the oath of office - almost to the minute, by way of Iran’s acknowledging the deal - the American hostages in Iran were released.
And for that, Reagan began selling the Iranians weapons and spare parts in 1981, and continued until he was busted for it in 1986, producing the so-called "Iran Contra" scandal.
I stand corrected
I do still think Reagan would have won though even with what the polls say. I say that because White America was yearning for another President who reminded them of Eisenhower
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even if you don't want to admit how this affected the election, this (and fukking around in Afghanistan) is basically what catapulted us into a never ending quagmire in the middle east, one that spiraled into 9/11 and basically a non-stop, 40 years of deploying our troops to that region
i always thought this was the case considering the hostages got released AS SOON as reagan was inaugurated.
i also think nixons campaign did something similar in 68 to stop a partial ceasefire in vietnam.
it should really be shocking that an american presidential candidate would negotiate to PREVENT the release of american hostages to win an election but the republican party is so morally corrupt and bankrupt that it isnt surprising
i also think nixons campaign did something similar in 68 to stop a partial ceasefire in vietnam.
it should really be shocking that an american presidential candidate would negotiate to PREVENT the release of american hostages to win an election but the republican party is so morally corrupt and bankrupt that it isnt surprising
YEP.
The Nixon thing got confirmed literally in 2018 but was suspected for a long time
George Will Confirms Nixon's Vietnam Treason
Anna Chennault: The Secret Go-Between Who Helped Tip the 1968 Election
Nixon Tried to Spoil Johnson’s Vietnam Peace Talks in ’68, Notes Show
Republicans stay with the election fukkery.
someone said the chickens came home to roost and all the white people got mad about it. and once again that sermon was proved to be 100% accurate in regards to 9/11 and US foreign policy in the middle east.
