Thom Hartmann: Four times the Republicans have cheated to win the election.

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For Decades, Americans Learned the Treasonous Truth After the Votes Were Counted. This Time Is Different.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/for-decades-americans-learned-the-c4d

Republicans have gotten away with it four times now, in a big way. Each time it was because Democrats didn't realize -- until it was too late -- the crimes the GOP was willing to perpetrate just to seize and hold power.

1. In 1968 Lyndon Johnson had negotiated an end to the Vietnam War. Then Nixon committed treason and sabotaged the peace deal - causing an additional 24,000 US and ~400,000 Vietnamese deaths.

2. In 1979 Jimmy Carter and Iranian Bani-Sadr were in the process of negotiating the release of the US hostages. Then the Republican candidate Reagan bribed the mullahs to wait until he was sworn in and he (Reagan) would supply them with parts for their military weapons.

3. In 2000 George W Bush got his brother Jeb, governor of Florida, to throw out some black voters from the rolls and GWB won the Florida count by 537 votes.

4. In 2016 Putin supported trump's presidential campaign.

So, get ready. We know in advance at least some of the dirty tricks they're going to try to pull. Musk and Zuck spinning their social media outlets; Fox, CBS, and CNN under oligarch's thumbs; ICE disruption; seized ballots; corrupted mail; and now realistic, highly deceptive AI-generated Republican deepfakes are already appearing in the Texas senatorial election.

It's going to get worse -- these guys are now legitimately afraid of suffering the same fate as Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell (who went to prison) -- but, once again, this time we can see it coming.

Forewarned is forearmed.