Posted on 07/13/2021 7:59:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CNN network contributor David Gergen said Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that former President Donald Trump was crazy and therefore more dangerous than former President Richard Nixon.
Discussing two new books about Trump’s last days in office, anchor Wolf Blitzer said, “David Gergen, you had a unique experience and experiencing witnessing the end of Nixon administration up close. You were even written about in Woodward and Bernstein’s book ‘The Final Days.’ So what similarities — do you see similarities in what you saw then and now these new accounts.”
Gergen said, “There certainly seem to be some similarities and parallels, Wolf. In the last few days, I keep thinking about the final days of the Nixon administration and these parallels.”
He continued, “The fact was that what we worried about with Trump was that he was crazy, and he’s still crazy, and he was unhinged, and you know he could bring the whole system down. And he has all these authoritarian tendencies. Richard Nixon, by contrast, actually respected the Constitution. When the Supreme Court came down with its decision, he had to turn over the tapes – the tapes of his conversations that he knew would sink him – he said, ‘turn over the tapes,’ and then he was booted out of office. So I think you have to put Trump in a different camp, in a more dangerous camp than Nixon.”
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“When in the course of human events.....”
Folks, this is your brain on GOP-E.
Just say “No.”
He’s quick.
When I voted for Trump in 2016 I was HOPING he’d bring the whole system down!!!
GO TRUMP!!! MAGA!!!
“he could bring the whole system down”
For Gergen, the system is the deep state.
“ you know he could bring the whole system down. ”. Good!
“He could bring the whole system down.”
The whole corrupt uniparty RINO revolving door kleptocrat oligopolist system? The one Trump promised to destroy?
THAT WAS TRUMP’S WHOLE FRIGGIN POINT, DUMBA$$!!!
Sounds to me like he is confusing Biden and Trump.
Wow...that’s an incredible amount of power for one man....
Hyperbole much?
Isn’t Gergen Clinton fodder?
When will we ever be done with those Grifters?
So Trump is crazy and nuts, but no mention on Bidens mental faculties?
You mean the whole House of Cards of corruption, mendacity, and decadence?
Not yet. He’s still walking from network to network, mumbling all the way. CNN, for some reason, thinks Gergen
has ‘gravitas’. He don’t got it. To use bad English.
So, let me get this right...Trump has been deplatformed, is no longer the sitting President, hold no governmental position at all, and you're STILL worried about him? Livin' rent free he is, huh?
And he has all these authoritarian tendencies. Richard Nixon, by contrast, actually respected the Constitution
Ok, stop right there. Nixon is often maligned, but I missed the section in the Constitution where the President is empowered to authorize a crime. And to quote the Wall Street Journal editorial page, when you consider that Nixon initiated the EPA and imposed wage and price controls, getting Nixon for Watergate was like getting Capone for tax evasion.
When they're elevating Nixon to tear down Trump, you know they're scared.
He was a Clinton Administration stooge.
David Rodham Gergen on election night 2016, when Trump was declared victor, in despair, exclaimed :
” Well, there goes the new world order “. Direct quote.
CNN is ATT’s whore.
“He could bring the whole system down”
He says like it’s a bad thing.
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