Liberal media unanimously assert that elections in the United States cannot be falsified. Nevertheless, history knows examples of the opposite, and the most scandalous elections ensured the victory of one of the most beloved presidents in the country – John F. Kennedy. By betting on a Catholic, the mafia then miscalculated. Will it be miscalculated now?
According to opinion polls, about 70% of Republicans are confident that the results of the presidential elections in certain constituencies were rigged, and this allowed Biden to steal the victory from Trump. Despite this, the team of the still incumbent president is losing one lawsuit after another in the courts of the disputed states. And the Republicans are giving up their own.
These include Pennsylvania District Judge Matthew Brann, who called Trump’s lawsuit “speculative accusations,” and Georgia’s government, which certified the counting of ballots despite the president’s protests (Trump managed to recheck several hundred votes, and needed several thousand).
Nevertheless, Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and Trump’s personal lawyer, continues to be optimistic, they say, the sooner the case reaches the almighty US Supreme Court, the better – due to force majeure, the Conservatives now have a majority there.
At a press conference on the matter, Giuliani looked cheerful but unconvincing. It is too predictable and obvious that Republicans at all levels will betray Trump, since a compromise with Democrats is beneficial for them, and further rocking the country and discrediting its electoral system is not beneficial to anyone. With the help of judicial battles, the “elephants” will surely plug all the “holes” through which victorious votes flowed to Biden, and prevent such excesses in the future, but Trump will have to leave for this, among other things.
Exactly the same thing happened in the 1960 elections, as Giuliani recalled when he compared Joe Biden with John F. Kennedy. Both are Democrats, both are Catholics, but in the lawyer’s picture of the world, one of the nation’s most beloved leaders was primarily a “fake president,” that is, who won elections as a result of rigging and collusion.
Now the states with “suspicious counties” that secured Biden’s election are Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Nevada. An equally suspicious victory for Kennedy was brought by Illinois (more precisely, Cook County, where Chicago is located) and southern Texas – with or without scam is not known for certain.
In many ways, this is pure conspiracy theory. But such a significant number of competent persons believe in this theory that it itself turns into pages of history. Now it is painfully relevant.
Once every four years, American newspapers of the pre-Internet era faced the same problem – the name of which presidential candidate should be put on the editorial of the morning edition, if by the time the issue was signed the winner of the election had not yet been determined? In 1960, Democratic protagonist Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon were literally head to head, but The New York Times managing editor Turner Catledge made a bet on Kennedy.
In his memoirs, he later admitted: “I was hoping that some mayor of the Midwest would steal enough votes to get Kennedy out”. And how he looked into the water.
The “certain mayor” has a last name – Daley. This is a whole clan of politicians who for half a century controlled one of the largest cities in the country – Chicago. The patriarch of the clan, Richard Daly, ruled the metropolis for 21 years until his death in 1976, and this is not a record yet: his son and namesake retired in 2011 after 22 years in office.
At the same time, Daily Sr. headed the branch of the Democratic Party in Cook County, creating such an effective “political machine” there that nothing could shine on the Republicans simply by the definition – in Chicago, the Daily family could do absolutely everything and won absolutely everyone.
Criminal charges have been repeatedly filed against the lesser-ranking Daly and his associates, and the name itself has become one of the synonyms for corruption. But to an even greater extent, suspicions of election fraud in Chicago in 1960 were based on the fact that the Daley clan, like the Kennedy clan, were Irish, that is, Catholics. In those pious years, the whole country was discussing whether it was permissible to trust the keys to the White House to the one behind whom a foreign power in the person of the Pope was looming.
The second candidate for vote-rigging in Illinois is the unquoted mafia – old pals of Kennedy’s father, a multimillionaire who rose to bootlegging during the Prohibition years. Joseph Kennedy himself dreamed of the presidency, but past sympathies for Hitler greatly complicated this task – in the end there was only enough money for the post of ambassador to Great Britain and to make his beloved son the head of state. “We’ll sell it like laundry detergent”, motivated Kennedy, the senior campaigner.
At the same time, it is believed that the famous Chicago mafia and personally her don – Sam Giancana were themselves so motivated that they were ready to help Kennedy even without requests from his father.
After 60 years, history repeated itself in the form of a farce. One of the leaders of the criminal community in Philadelphia, Joey Merlino, nicknamed Skinny Joey, said he had falsified 300,000 ballots in favor of Biden. True, many do not believe this: it is obvious that Merlino is thus asking for a deal with the investigation and will give testimony only in exchange for the forgiveness of past sins. Even if the evidence is based on fantasy, there is a reason to try your luck.
As for Texas, Kennedy’s victory there, whether fair or not, has a specific architect in the person of Lyndon Johnson. He was a long-term senator from the state, the leader of the Democrats in Congress and the walking personification of the “good old South”, that is, the complete opposite of Kennedy, with whom he competed during the primaries.
If Kennedy personified the demand for change, Johnson was associated with the preservation of the traditions of Dixieland, including the most racist of them – he was promoted to presidency by oil magnate Harold Hunt, a Hitler fan, far-right maniac and one of the richest people in the country.
Moreover, these two could not stand each other, and why Johnson suddenly became a candidate for vice president paired with JFK is a secret, and in a literal sense.
“The whole story will never be known. And it’s good that it won’t”, – these were the words John F. Kennedy used to explain his choice of a partner.
“My brother and I promised each other that we would never tell what happened”, – echoed Robert Kennedy, who led the campaign.
According to one version, Johnson’s nomination for vice-presidency was lobbied by the same Hunt through his friend, FBI chief Edgar Hoover, who allegedly had an intimate compromising material on “hot rabbit” Kennedy. In any case, from a political point of view, the choice in favor of the antagonist turned out to be extremely successful. Johnson had his own “political machine” – the one that gave them a pair of Texans. According to one of the versions, in those districts that adjoin Mexico, she went as far as direct stuffing of ballots for Democrats.
And if it didn’t, the Kennedy-Johnson tandem itself became a hoax for southern voters. They then voted for the Democrats rather out of habit, guided by Johnson’s conservative image. When, after the assassination of the president, he continued Kennedy’s policy of abolishing segregation, the states of the “cotton belt” (also known as the “deep South” – Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina) amicably transferred to the republican country.
After those elections, the “donkeys” and “elephants” actually waved the electorate: neither Johnson himself in the triumphant election for him in 1964, nor any other Democratic presidential candidate ever won in any of these states until Biden overtook Trump in Georgia.
The Chicago mafia could also consider itself deceived – after the election of Kennedy the number of convictions against its “bayonets” increased eightfold. Respected people do not tolerate deception, therefore, both Sam Giancanu and Harold Hunt, for whom Johnson’s repainting as liberals was a real blow, are named among the possible customers of the fatal shot in Dallas.
Be that as it may, the 1960 elections in Chicago and Texas left evidence of the same kind as the 2020 elections in Pennsylvania and Nevada – dead people voting, phenomenal turnout, testimony from “accomplices.” But there are also quite academic studies, where some oddities were explained, while others were analyzed with a verdict – in those cases where falsifications could have taken place, they did not affect the overall alignment. In other words, Kennedy won anyway, albeit with a narrow margin.
Nixon, according to his biographers, was convinced of the opposite. Despite this, he admitted defeat less than two days after the vote – further legal struggle and recounts (for example, in Hawaii – with the same “insufficient result as now in Georgia) took place without his participation.
On his part, it was a sober calculation – he did not want to expose the country, which was in a dangerous phase of the Cold War with the USSR, and to expose himself. The calculation turned out to be correct: after eight years, Nixon was still elected head of state, and four years later he defeated Democrat McGovern in all states with the exception of Massachusetts.
Despite his highly controversial reputation, this man is one of the most successful presidents in the history of the United States. The notorious Watergate prevents the Americans from admitting this, when “all the president’s army” foolishly decided to wiretap the headquarters of the notorious loser McGovern, which ultimately led Nixon to a shameful resignation.
In 1960, he should have retreated for the sake of revenge in the future. Although Nixon reproached Kennedy for his youth and inexperience, he himself was not much older.
Actually, this was the last presidential election in the United States, when both candidates had not yet hit fifty dollars.
But Trump is already 74 years old. A return to the White House in 2024 – the scenario that part of his entourage is now pushing him to, remains purely theoretical and looks more like a decoy designed to break the president’s stubbornness.
The 2020 campaign will generate significantly more investigation and books than in 1960. It will be proved with varying degrees of persuasiveness that an impostor has become the president. This will continue to live as a myth, theory, suspicion or conviction, it will haunt Biden until his funeral and for decades after, it will pose a dangerous challenge to the very statehood of the United States, but once again it will prove what is already known: the election of the American president is like mince, back do not crank.
Dmitry Bavyrin, VZGLYAD