The 56-Year-Long Crisis of Treasonous & Illegitimate GOP Presidents is Happening Again
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 28 January 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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There’s a long tradition of Republicans running for president committing treason, or at least criminal manipulation of international affairs, to advantage themselves & hurt Democratic presidents. Also can you build bridges to Trump cultists that may, over time and with work and love, help you pry them loose from the authoritarian leader or movement to which they’ve bonded?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:19.0 | And welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:22.0 | My op-ed today, my daily take over at |
| 0:25.2 | Harmon report.com is titled the 56-year-long crisis of treasonous and |
| 0:30.0 | illegitimate GOP presidents is happening again. |
| 0:35.0 | And it is. |
| 0:36.4 | Those of you who are a long time listeners to this program |
| 0:38.7 | know this song. |
| 0:40.0 | I will summarize it very briefly. |
| 0:42.0 | Richard Nixon in 1968 committed treason |
| 0:45.2 | by reaching out to South Vietnam and bribing essentially |
| 0:48.0 | the president of South Vietnam saying, |
| 0:49.8 | I will make you rich if you refuse to go along |
| 0:52.4 | with Lyndon Johnson's efforts to end |
| 0:54.0 | the war in Vietnam because Richard Nixon in 68 was running against Vice President |
| 0:58.4 | Hubert Humphrey and if the war was ended, Humphrey would have won. |
| 1:02.6 | And there's no doubt about that, all the polls showed that. |
| 1:05.9 | But with the war continuing, and in 6 by 68, |
| 1:09.2 | it was insanely unpopular. |
| 1:11.4 | And LBJ had actually negotiated peace. |
| 1:14.2 | They were going to meet in Paris that fall and sign the deal. |
| 1:18.8 | And Nixon blew it up just so that he could beat Hugh Humphrey, which he did. |
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