Posted on 09/05/2023 1:22:27 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
I remember when Richard Nixon resigned. Even though I was only 12 at the time, I had a general understanding that our country’s president had done something wrong, got caught, and needed to step aside.
“By taking this action,” Nixon said in his national address on August 8, 1974, “I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.”
Fast forward to 2023: A former president faces 91 felony charges for crimes ranging from falsifying business records to the “willful retention of national defense information,” from violating the Georgia RICO Act to conspiracy to defraud the United States.
The 91 indictments have not had the negative impact one might think, as this man is now the top choice as presidential nominee for 59% of GOP voters. Moreover, during the first GOP debate on Aug. 23 – an event this former president did not attend – six of the eight candidates pledged their support for him if chosen as nominee even if convicted as a felon.
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Dick was a liar: “I have a secret plan....”
And I think that part of the motivation of impeaching Trump was delayed revenge over impeaching Clinton.
Long gone are the days of Woodward & Bernstein, and MacNeil & Lehrer whose dogged Watergate reporting helped expose President Richard Nixon. Today, everyday citizens do their own, algorithm-curated searches for information that tell them exactly what they want to hear, which ultimately enables politicians like Donald Trump to avoid the same public accountability Nixon faced. Sadly, while a 12-year-old in 1974 could know intuitively when a president had done something wrong, a 12-year-old today lacks that same intuition regarding any disingenuous politician. Such is the current world shaped by the internet, social media, and a dying concept known as “truth.” …Last paragraph of the screed. This Keck deserves no praise, to put it mildly. Goes after critics for calling him a “hypocrite” (which he is) by claiming they are hitting him with argumentum ad hominem and 95 percent of his screed is ad hominem by itself.
If it was “retaliation”, why didn’t they convict?
The left always tell you whom they fear the most.
The people went along because the people were still under the impression the media would not lie to them.
They’ve wanted Nixon’s scalp ever since he was involved with HUAC.
Nixon was guilty of participating with the coverup afterwards when Dean and others (Bob Haldeman, etc.) convinced Nixon that coming clean about the Watergate break-in was a bad idea.
Then Nixon had to go and erase the 19 minutes of tape where he incriminated himself about going along with the coverup.
But Nixon got us out of Vietnam, and Nixon opened up trade with China (probably a bad thing in the long run, but quite a diplomatic coup at the time,) and through Kissenger almost brought about peace in the Middle East between the Arabs and Israel.
My memory of President Nixon resigning is quiet a bid different than the writer’s.
Nixon like President Trump was the victim of a coup. A coup by the same cast of characters as we have been seeing for 2016 until today. From mad dog partisan Democrats to sanctimonious Republicans to a partisan press to the same initialed investigation agencies. From trumped up charges to congress critters lying like rugs to the daily drip drip drip of charges and innuendo in the media.
The only difference was Nixon did not have the stomach for the fight as does President Trump.
How many votes do you need to convict in the Senate? How many votes did Republicans have at that time?
I believe that retaliation for Clinton’s impeachment was when the left wanted to go after GWB over torture with the enhanced interrogations and no WMDS, but they didn’t go after him.
What an anal orifice.
See Tagline. Agenda then; agenda now. To hell with the truth.
Exactly what you said.
nixon used 2 guys to bug 1 office.
Trump’s offices were bugged by the entire intel community to track everyone (N+2) that went in and out of Trump tower.
22,500+ people work in Trump tower resulting in 67,500 people the intel community tracked / spied on.
a bit of a difference
Nixon’s extraction from Vietnam was lame in planning and execution.
He had no secret plan.
Nixon also had nought FU money.
It makes a Yuge difference.
Not relevant since I’m counting the number of votes. JFTR, I was talking about Clinton, where only 45 voted to convict on the first count and 50 on the second.
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