{"id":48752,"date":"2026-06-17T20:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=48752"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:06:29","slug":"for-decades-americans-learned-the-treasonous-truth-after-the-votes-were-counted-this-time-is-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/for-decades-americans-learned-the-treasonous-truth-after-the-votes-were-counted-this-time-is-different\/","title":{"rendered":"For Decades, Americans Learned the Treasonous Truth After the Votes Were Counted. This Time Is Different."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For half a century, the evidence surfaced after the winners took office. This election may be the first where the public sees it beforehand\u2026<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Thom Hartmann<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jun 17, 2026 (HartmannReport.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Republicans have gotten away with it four times now<\/a>, in a big way. Each time it was because Democrats didn\u2019t realize \u2014 until it was too late \u2014 the crimes the GOP was willing to perpetrate just to seize and hold power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time, for the first time since 1968, it may be different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August of 1968, President Lyndon Johnson and Vice President Hubert Humphrey negotiated an end to the Vietnam War with both the North and South Vietnamese. Humphrey was running against Richard Nixon for president in that year\u2019s election and planned to announce the deal in September or early October. He was running ahead and would\u2019ve easily won the presidency with the peace deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, Nixon learned of the deal. His people reached out to the corrupt South Vietnamese administration and promised them riches if they\u2019d refuse to go to Paris and sign the peace deal as planned. The FBI had been wiretapping the South Vietnamese and intercepted one of the conversations and handed it over to LBJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Johnson called Everett Dirksen, the head of the Senate Republicans, and pointed out that Nixon<\/a> was trying to \u201ccommit treason.\u201d Dirksen agreed and promised that he\u2019d reach out to Nixon to try to stop it. He failed, and Nixon went ahead and sabotaged the peace deal, leading to another ~24,000 American and ~400,000+ Vietnamese deaths before Jerry Ford ended the war in 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson told Dirksen that he didn\u2019t want Americans to know that Nixon was committing treason to become president because he was afraid it\u2019d shatter our faith in the American system; Dirksen agreed, and the secret went to their graves, only to be revealed to the public 25 years later when the LBJ library published the audiotapes of their conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Democrats had known, they could have shown up in the streets and stopped Nixon, but LBJ didn\u2019t think there was enough time (he was probably right; Nixon would have just denied it and claimed it was a political hit job, fake news). So Nixon became president and, with his appointments of justices Harry Blackmun and Lewis Powell to the Supreme Court making it majority Republican for the first time since the 1930s, changed the course of American history.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then it happened again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November, 1979, Iranian \u201cstudents\u201d took the US Embassy and its staff hostage. Two months later, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was elected prime minister of Iran on a platform of \u201crelease the hostages and normalize relations with the United States.\u201d President Jimmy Carter reached out to Bani-Sadr and the two of them began the process of organizing the release of the hostages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Bani-Sadr later told The Christian Science Monitor<\/a> after he fled to America, that year Ronald Reagan was running against Carter for the White House and his campaign reached out to the mullahs, who were the real power base in Iran, and offered them a deal. They had all this US-manufactured military hardware the Shah had bought and they desperately needed spare parts and compatible missiles; Reagan would help cement the power of the radical new regime by selling them the weaponry they needed if they\u2019d just help him become president by hanging onto the hostages until after the election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carter and Bani-Sadr knew the mullahs had suddenly turned against releasing the hostages but didn\u2019t learn until 1981 that it was because the Reagan campaign had committed treason to humiliate Carter and win the 1980 election. Reagan became president, illegally sold the Iranians weapons for the next five years (Iran\/Contra), and used the money to illegally fund neofascists in Central America. He then declared war on unions, cut taxes on the morbidly rich, cut education funding, and flipped us out of the New Deal that had built the American middle class, leading straight to today\u2019s widespread poverty and oligarchy.\ufeff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The hostages were released<\/a> by the mullahs on January 20, 1981 when Reagan put his hand on the bible to be sworn into office \u2014 to the minute \u2014 by way of sealing the deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Democrats had known before the election, they could have shown up in the streets and stopped Reagan, but nobody learned even the rough details for a year, and it wasn\u2019t until former Texas Lt. Governor Ben Barnes made his confession to <\/a><\/strong>The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><\/em> in 2023 that we finally got solid confirmation from an American source. Reagan\u2019s treason and 1980 election theft, then 43 years in the past, became a one-day story.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then it happened again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2000, Bill Clinton\u2019s Vice President, Al Gore, was running against Texas Governor George W. Bush and the election was such a squeaker that it all came down to one state: Florida. Which was then run by George\u2019s brother, Governor Jeb Bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeb ordered his Secretary of State (and the Florida head of <\/strong>George Bush for President<\/strong><\/em>) Katherine Harris to obtain a list of mostly-Black and Hispanic felons from George\u2019s Texas penal system and run it against the Florida voter roll. The result was at least 10,000<\/a> \u2014 and by some estimates as many as 70,000 \u2014 mostly Black voters purged from the Florida voter list and unable to vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, George W. Bush won Florida \u2014 and the presidency \u2014 by 537 votes. George\u2019s father\u2019s appointee to the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas (whose wife was taking interviews for positions in George\u2019s White House), was the deciding vote on the US Supreme Court to ignore\/violate the 10th Amendment and stop the recount ordered<\/a> by the Florida Supreme Court (which would have revealed how Jeb\/Harris had rigged the election).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Democrats had known at the time, they could have shown up in the streets and stopped Bush, but nobody learned even the rough details of the GOP election rigging for several months when BBC reporter Greg Palast broke the story to an international audience and, a year later, a recount done by a group of newspapers found<\/a> that Gore would, indeed, have won the recount.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of which brings us to today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is openly trying to rig this fall\u2019s election, as multiple mainstream outlets have documented. He\u2019s put \u201celection deniers\u201d willing to commit crimes against democracy into critical positions, crippled the two offices in the Executive branch responsible for election integrity, ordered the Post Office to refuse to carry ballots in Democratic-run states with mail-in voting, is positioning ICE agents to intimidate voters, launched a national gerrymandering campaign, and has a handful of other threatened sleazy actions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans want to outlaw married women voting if they haven\u2019t gone before a judge to change their last names (the SAVE Act<\/a>), and Trump is trying to build a national voter database \u2014 in defiance of the Constitution \u2014 so he can help Red states with Blue cities purge their Democratic voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike with Nixon, Reagan, or Bush, however, this time we know. We can see this coming. They\u2019re doing much of it right out in the open. And that\u2019s a huge advantage that we all must prepare for.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can support the Hartmann Report here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it\u2019s true that Trump became president in 2016, as Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation found, because of major help from Putin, then the last legitimately elected Republican president who didn\u2019t commit or at least flirt with treason was Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By coincidence, he was also the last Republican president to reject the influence of America\u2019s oligarchs and instead kept the top 90% income tax rate on oligarchs and actually worked to increase union membership and expand Social Security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, get ready. We know in advance at least some of the dirty tricks they\u2019re going to try to pull. Musk and Zuck spinning their social media outlets; Fox, CBS, and CNN under oligarch\u2019s thumbs; ICE disruption; seized ballots; corrupted mail; and now realistic, highly deceptive AI-generated Republican deepfakes are already appearing in the Texas senatorial election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s going to get worse \u2014 these guys are now legitimately afraid of suffering the same fate as Nixon\u2019s Attorney General John Mitchell (who went to prison) \u2014 but, once again, this time we can see it coming<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forewarned is forearmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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