The mainstream media is treating President Trump's claims of vote fraud with extreme indignation. Now one can argue the extent of it but the MSM is acting as if vote fraud is almost unheard is. An extreme rarity. However, allegations of vote fraud have long existed yet until recently the MSM did not really challenge those assertions. Last summer AMC's docudrama Making of the Mob: Chicago showed the scene below of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. asking notorious Chicago mobsters Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana to use their muscle to provide union votes for his son, John F. Kennedy, who was running for president in the 1960 election. How much MSM outrage did that scene inspire? Absolutely none.

The reviews of that scene expressed no challenge to its credibility. Here is an example of a typical review from TV Eskimo:

... the developing tension between the mob bosses is relieved when a phone call comes from the Kennedy patriarch. That’s Joe Kennedy, father of RFK and JFK. In the current episode, Sam Giancana tells Tony Accardo “Kennedy wants a sit-down with us.” He assures Accardo that it may be in their best interest to talk to the man. It’s 1960 and Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy is running for president. Though some of the Kennedy millions came from bootlegging, his sons are In politics. Joe Kennedy will stop at nothing to help them succeed, even if it means meeting with mobsters. At the meeting, Joe knows that Illinois will be a deciding swing state that will help JFK to win the presidency. Kennedy knows that the mob can deliver the union vote, especially with their close association with Teamster’s union president Jimmy Hoffa. Many observers currently feel that the Chicago mob swung Illinois to JFK’s side, ensuring him of the presidency. With Robert F. Kennedy breathing down his neck, Sam Giancana feels that the Kennedy overture could solve that problem. They make the deal. It’s kind of funny in the show, and perhaps apocryphal, that the outspoken Sam Giancana injected some personal opinion of the matter: “No offense, Mr. Kennedy, but your other son is an asshole.” When JFK wins, the mobsters believe they “have a president” in their pockets but it’s not so. RFK is appointed Attorney General by his brother and pursues Giancana with even more determination. He order illegal wiretaps. He assigns an increasing number of FBI agents to harass Sam Giancana. Giancana comes up with a novel idea (for the mob, anyway). He sues the federal government and scores a big win against Robert Kennedy. It doesn’t please Tony Accardo as Sam Giancana is heard bragging about stealing the election for JFK. He calls for a meeting with his best friend and long time associate boss Paul Ricca, just released from prison. Accardo has a laundry list of Sam Giancana mistakes. He thinks the only solution is to kill Sam. Even Paul Ricca has had enough of Sam’s public shenanigans.

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No biographer of Lyndon B. Johnson is more thorough than Robert Caro who has written several volumes about his subject. In his second volume, Means of Ascent, Caro revealed the extent of Johnson's vote rigging which was quite blatant. In addition, this assertion by Caro was covered approvingly by the New York Times in 1990 when such electoral fraud was still acknowledged in the MSM:

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10— A study of Lyndon B. Johnson provides new evidence that the 36th President stole his first election to the United States Senate, in 1948. The book, ''Means of Ascent,'' by Robert A. Caro, is the second volume of a projected four-volume study, ''The Years of Lyndon Johnson.'' With a first printing of 250,000 copies, it is to be published on March 15 by Knopf, and excerpts have appeared in The New Yorker. Mr. Caro maintains that although ballot fraud was common in the late 1940's in some parts of Texas, the Johnson campaign of 1948 raised it to a new level. Mr. Caro supports his charge with an interview with Luis Salas, an election judge in Jim Wells County who said he acknowledged his role only after all others involved in the theft had died. The book, ''Means of Ascent,'' by Robert A. Caro, is the second volume of a projected four-volume study, ''The Years of Lyndon Johnson.'' With a first printing of 250,000 copies, it is to be published on March 15 by Knopf, and excerpts have appeared in The New Yorker. It has been alleged for years that Johnson captured his Senate seat through fraud, but Mr. Caro goes into great detail to tell how the future President overcame a 20,000-vote deficit to achieve his famous 87-vote victory in the 1948 Democratic runoff primary against a former Governor, Coke Stevenson. A South Texas political boss, George Parr, had manufactured thousands of votes, Mr. Caro found. Johnson died in 1973, Stevenson and Parr in 1975. Mr. Caro says the election showed Johnson's determination to win at all costs as well as his coolness under fire and his ability to select gifted lieutenants, whom he then manipulated.

Of course this Times story was written before it became MSM dogma that vote fraud simply doesn't exist or is exceeding rare or is only on a very small scale. Small scale? That 20,000 votes is no small scale. It was quite a significant steal that allowed Johnson to be elected to the U.S. Senate and ultimately to become president.