The act of purposefully
withholding information or disrupting developments that may help a candidate before an election. Named after Hubert H. Humphrey, the Democrat in the 1968 election who was unfairly the victim of the act that he is the namesake of. Richard Nixon’s campaign would break up
peace talks between the Vietnamese and the US government fearing that successful peace talks would cost him the election. The result of this act of selfishness was clear, America would continue to be in a war the people wanted out of, hundreds of thousands of men would be
shipped off to a war against their will, and thousands of them would die in a jungle, on the other side of the world from where they would’ve been had one man not done this act.
Donald Trump got Humphried by
Big Pharma this election. They withheld the news that a
COVID vaccine was about to be completed until after the election, denying Trump of a positive development that would’ve likely convinced 45,000 voters in 3 states to vote for the President and re-elect him. Instead
Joe Biden won the election, bringing in a change in leadership in the waning days of this pandemic, adding to the uncertainty and instability that already consumes the country, all for their interest of getting rid of an administration that was unfriendly to their powerful interests.