Republican Admits to Sabotaging Jimmy Carter's Election

[BlindBoo]

u couldnt buy gas anywhere when carter was president

Depended on your license plate, odd and even days.

 

[Lesh]

Absolutely. And?

Trump strong armed SA to lower oil production and cause gas prices to go UP

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Trump strong armed SA to lower oil production and cause gas prices to go UP

Strong armed them like a mother fucker!!

Why didn't Biden do the same to get them to boost production?

 

[struth]

This is huge. I guess he wanted it off his chest before he died. And it looks like the New York Times has made this available with no paywall.

A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election​

A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.

WASHINGTON — It has been more than four decades, but Ben Barnes said he remembers it vividly. His longtime political mentor invited him on a mission to the Middle East. What Mr. Barnes said he did not realize until later was the real purpose of the mission: to sabotage the re-election campaign of the president of the United States.

It was 1980 and Jimmy Carter was in the White House, bedeviled by a hostage crisis in Iran that had paralyzed his presidency and hampered his effort to win a second term. Mr. Carter’s best chance for victory was to free the 52 Americans held captive before Election Day. That was something that Mr. Barnes said his mentor was determined to prevent.

His mentor was John B. Connally Jr., a titan of American politics and former Texas governor who had served three presidents and just lost his own bid for the White House. A former Democrat, Mr. Connally had sought the Republican nomination in 1980 only to be swamped by former Gov. Ronald Reagan of California. Now Mr. Connally resolved to help Mr. Reagan beat Mr. Carter and in the process, Mr. Barnes said, make his own case for becoming secretary of state or defense in a new administration.

What happened next Mr. Barnes has largely kept secret for nearly 43 years. Mr. Connally, he said, took him to one Middle Eastern capital after another that summer, meeting with a host of regional leaders to deliver a blunt message to be passed to Iran: Don’t release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan will win and give you a better deal.

Then shortly after returning home, Mr. Barnes said, Mr. Connally reported to William J. Casey, the chairman of Mr. Reagan’s campaign and later director of the Central Intelligence Agency, briefing him about the trip in an airport lounge.

Mr. Carter’s camp has long suspected that Mr. Casey or someone else in Mr. Reagan’s orbit sought to secretly torpedo efforts to liberate the hostages before the election, and books have been written on what came to be called the October surprise. But congressional investigations debunked previous theories of what happened.

while the hostages were certainly an issue Jimmy carter and the dems has wreaked the economy as well…he was joey xiden before joey was joey xiden

 

[struth]

Trump strong armed SA to lower oil production and cause gas prices to go UP

how did he “strong arm” them? with that said, i do recall he was an effective leader that got other countries to listen..unlike xiden who gets out played by foreign countries and run all over

 

[Lesh]

Strong armed them like a mother fucker!!

Why didn't Biden do the same to get them to boost production?

So you CELEBRATE the fact that Trump was trying to increase the price of gas and oil?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

So you CELEBRATE the fact that Trump was trying to increase the price of gas and oil?

Is that what he was trying to do?

 

[Lesh]

Is that what he was trying to do?

You… dope

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

You… dope

Why didn't Biden strong arm OPEC to get them to boost production?

Is it because Biden is a joke?

 

[Lesh]

Why didn't Biden strong arm OPEC to get them to boost production?

Is it because Biden is a joke?

Why did Trump strong arm them in order to raise gas prices?

Trying to help his buddy Putin out?

 

[Care4all]

Strong armed them like a mother fucker!!

Why didn't Biden do the same to get them to boost production?

It was more like a favor, to trump for covering up the prince murdering Kashoggi....

Biden spoke out against the murder.

The Prince holds it against Biden for telling the truth....and is punishing all Americans for it.

 

[basquebromance]

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Lakhota]

So sad.

 

[Seymour Flops]

This is new??? I thought this was well known.

The conspiracy theory has been around a long time, with no evidence whatsoever.

Jimmy Carter didn't need anyone's help to sabotage his re-election bid. He sabatoged himself with his unemployment, his inflation, his gas lines and his humiliation at the hands of Iran and the Soviets.

 

[easyt65]

Snowflakes are so desperate to distract from the story of the Bidens taking millions from Xi & the CCP they resort to going back decades to create a Conspiracy Theory thread involving the SECOND worst - behind Biden - President in US history.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Jimmy Carter was such an abysmal president that sabotage wasn't necessary. If there was sabotage, GOOD. Is the old bastard dead yet? The devil is waiting for his due.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why did Trump strong arm them in order to raise gas prices?

Trying to help his buddy Putin out?

Why did Trump strong arm them in order to raise gas prices?

Don't you know? It was in all the papers.

Trying to help his buddy Putin out?

Was he helping out Putin when he told Germany to stop Nord Stream 2?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

It was more like a favor, to trump for covering up the prince murdering Kashoggi....

Biden spoke out against the murder.

The Prince holds it against Biden for telling the truth....and is punishing all Americans for it.

It was more like a favor, to trump for covering up the prince murdering Kashoggi....

Covering it up? I heard about it non-stop.

Biden spoke out against the murder.

How'd that work out for Biden?

The Prince holds it against Biden for telling the truth..

The Prince holds Biden's weakness against him. We're all paying for it.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

So sad.