NYTimes article about how very badly the GOP behaved to torpedo Carter's re-election.
Democrats have become professional victims of the evil GOP who will do everything and anything to win. We just keep taking it in the ass over and over and over.
Read below about how and by whom Reagans October surprise was orchestrated.
Gifted article
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html?unlocked_article_code=GvyCUgbAjxH4skeLj_k9sdEiHMAsnUTsXBQg2tbwm8HKkbhYlk3ZcZ2ZAU_shcUZOsVf-WLa8joa3dsOQuY96yA-3wb98DMqSf4IR1hGVmwfn_nDQc2-chkOf1HsqMWHdr2nxjhsUYaK3eQPeLmQeZPCERb6Fhh9fTuWi3WB_V3FvRh17Ny9igKhAwdPKuH3IeGP3Y51nEuElaFHuDx7ndwq1xn5xR2fcQK8m7biG_8gIavvhRqwebLceUGTsJ0PAG2Z2g1olhJkhBuCEFnuqzYrpPtQoAISpNGmHS_yJ-cfb2kJ47INt-2v_EkJIbB0eOSPekaY4HD42wkzsT7WqvUdxpurX87V7LCK0M__OPyGDFNSM_UaiD4&smid=url-share
Me.
(35,454 posts)many of us knew this...the info was out there, just no one would believe it
Irish_Dem
(47,466 posts)Botany
(70,592 posts)... back in the day.
In 1980 HW Bush went to Paris and met w/the Iranians and promised them weapons and other stuff
if they held onto the hostages until after the election. The secret service agents working w/HW
hand wrote in their time reports for that time period rather then have it stamped by a machine time
keeper.
From Wiki (this was the birth of Iran Contra)
Late September 1980: An expatriate Iranian arms dealer named Hushang Lavi claims he met with Richard V. Allen, the Reagan campaign's national security expert, Robert "Bud" McFarlane, and Lawrence Silberman, co-chairman of Ronald Reagan's foreign policy advisors during the campaign, and discussed the possible exchange of F-4 parts for American hostages, but Lavi says they asserted they "were already in touch with the Iranians themselves".[25]: 2067
October 1520: Meetings are held in Paris between emissaries of the Reagan/Bush campaign, with Casey as "key participant", and "high-level Iranian and Israeli representatives".[30]
October 21: Iran, for reasons not explained, abruptly shifts its position in secret negotiations with the Carter administration and disclaims "further interest in receiving military equipment".[31]
October 2123: Israel secretly ships F-4 fighter-aircraft tires to Iran, in violation of the U.S. arms embargo,[31] and Iran disperses the hostages to different locations.[32]
January 20, 1981: Hostages are formally released into United States custody after spending 444 days in captivity. The release takes place just minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as president.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_theory
Both republicans, democrats, along with the media have covered up these crimes for years.
Both the NY Times and the Washington Post ran stories that there was nothing to the stories of the Reagan campaign,
HW Bush, and CIA director Casey cutting deals with Iran.
Ninga
(8,277 posts)who became disgruntled with his campaign losses and switched to the GOP and ran political interference for the GOP with a tour of the Middle East to lobby leaders to not release the hostages. He ran well under the radar and was never considered for testimony etc
Me.
(35,454 posts)like on MTP this morning
ramapo
(4,589 posts)This is no secret. It was right out there but nobody gave a crap. Nixon got away with the same trick with the North Vietnamese when running against Humphrey in 68.