Posted on 01/09/2024 12:02:15 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Edited on 01/25/2024 6:38:16 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
If Donald Trump is right that presidents have immunity, then why did Richard Nixon need a pardon?
Trump was in a Washington, D.C. federal courtroom Tuesday, Jan. 9 where his attorneys argued before an appeals court that the four-count indictment against him for 2020 election interference should be dismissed. Their position is that Trump, as president at the time, is immune from prosecution because he was carrying out official duties.
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If you spell Antonio backwards is he still uninformed .
Nixon was never charged
The Pardon stopped the witch hunt in its tracks. Whether he needed it or not became moot.
Ford pardoned Nixon to end the hate and division and allow the nation to move on. It was a good thing and courageous given the blowback he predictably got from democrats. Whether Nixon “needed” a pardon is uncertain and still debatable.
“What to know”
Translation:
What I want you to believe
About 10 minutes before Bubba left the Whitehouse for the last time, an attorney stepped to the mike.
They had reached a deal....
but the most important part of that deal was that Bubba would never be prosecuted for anything that happened while he was President.
He didn’t....
Ford’s pardon of Nixon may have caused his loss in the 1976 election which was very close.
Ford lost because of the Swine Flu vax debacle and saying that the Soviets didn’t dominate Poland.
Lets not forget about Chevy F...ing Chase
Nixon = Evidence
Trump = No Evidence
Making up charges isn’t reality and the left is in high speed mode of making them up.
By rights the Biden crime family should be in prison by now democrat party mum in cover up mode.
Easy, Nixon had an “(R)” after his name, and he was by far the worst Republican President ever (Genuflected to the ChiComs, killed the gold standard, introduced OSHA and the EPA, ..).
True. One interview much later included Nixon saying (my paraphrase) “When I was told the Democrats were going to pursue civil prosecution I decided I wanted to spare the country from that against a President.”
This meant IF the Democrats successfully indicted him and won, not that it was a process with historical precedent.
Watergate was a Democrat media creation but that other stuff, yeah, Nixon really embraced Statism and we cannot forgive that.
At the time of the pardon most people thought Nixon’s resignation was sufficient punishment and that a prosecution was unnecessary, people wanted to move on. Also, comity existed between the parties then. Democrats got Carter elected out of the deal, and of course ‘President Malaise’ blew himself up enough to not get reelected. Reagan was so successful he got Pappy Bush elected, upsetting the usual pattern. Bush raised taxes after saying he wouldn’t, sinking himself with Republicans.
Watergate was used to get mainstream America to accept the new radicalized Democratic Party.
Nixon won in ‘60. Wouldn’t fight the results for the sake of the country. 13 years later he did it again. What did it buy him in both cases?
Would Trump play that game?
The answer to the question is that Ford pardoned Nixon to save the country from what it is now going through.
The anger was pretty deep. Even though Ford made the right decision to pardon Nixon, his timing was incredibly stupid . . . right before the midterms. He could have waited a couple of months and suffered far less of a bloodbath than the GOP did.
The massive losses in congress led directly to our disgraceful retreat from Saigon the following April and the beginning of the Cambodian genocide by Pol Pot. Both events could have been slowed or possibly even avoided altogether had congress not immediately defunded his request to lay down artillery fire from our battleships to slow the advance of the Communist armies pushing south.
America was still great then, or at least pretty good.
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