Topic: Donald Segretti

The history of political "dirty tricks" is explored through the career of Dick Tuck, who famously pranked Richard Nixon for decades. This legacy continued with Donald Segretti, who was hired by the Nixon administration to perform "rat fucking" operations against Democrats. These tactics included forging letters to sabotage the 1972 presidential campaign of Edmund Muskie.

The unrest within the Democratic Party is theorized to be an orchestration by Republican "dirty tricksters" like Roger Stone to exacerbate internal divisions. This strategy mirrors Watergate-era tactics used by figures such as Dick Tuck and Donald Segretti to sabotage political opponents. Reports of gunshots fired into a Sanders campaign office in Nevada are cited as evidence of high-end "mob activity" influencing the election cycle.