Which nobody new at the time will it be this November?

The GOP's favorite phrase when it comes to presidential politics appears to be nobody new at the time.

Once a president is sworn into office regardless of how much evidence there is

of crimes and irregularities committed to get him there, both the press and the

electorate just want to ignore the evidence and move along.

After all, there's never been a successfully contested presidential election in American history,

which is why the GOP will again count on getting away with their crimes against

electoral democracy this fall. The big question for America will be what did we

miss that we should have known at the time? We have you'll, seen this movie before.

When Richard Nixon ran against incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 1968,

nobody knew at the time that Nixon's campaign had reached out to the South Vietnamese leadership and promised

to make them rich if they'd refuse to go along with the Paris talks and thus sabotage the peace

deal that LBJ had worked out with them earlier that summer.

A week before the election,

L.B.J. discussed it with Republican Senator Everett D'Rksen,

who agreed that this is treason. Nonetheless, both men took the story to their

graves. America didn't learn about Nixon's treachery until the

L.B.J. Library finally published the tape recordings of the phone call.

When Ronald Reagan ran against Jimmy Carter, nobody knew at the time that Reagan's campaign had cut a deal with the mullahs of

Iran to hold the hostages, making Carter appear fatally weak and politically impotent.

We didn't learn about Reagan's treason until the then president of Iran,

Abilhassen Bonnie Sodder, emigrated to America and wrote a 2013 article for the

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