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Woodward and Bernstein brand Trump the 'first seditious president'
Washington Examiner ^ | June 05, 2022 09:51 AM | by Daniel Chaitin, Deputy News Editor

Posted on 06/05/2022 6:36:39 PM PDT by RandFan

Former President Donald Trump has surpassed Richard Nixon as the poster child of corruption, according to Watergate sleuths Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

The pair, famous for how they helped expose the Watergate scandal in the Nixon administration nearly 50 years ago, were again published by the Washington Post on Sunday, days ahead of when the House committee investigating the Capitol riot is scheduled to hold the first in a series of summer hearings, calling Trump the first "seditious" president.

Whereas "instruments of American democracy finally stopped Nixon dead in his tracks, forcing the only resignation of a president in American history," Woodward and Bernstein write that Trump "not only sought to destroy the electoral system through false claims of voter fraud and unprecedented public intimidation of state election officials, but he also then attempted to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to his duly elected successor, for the first time in American history."

Trump, who has denied responsibility for the Capitol riot, engaged in a "deception that exceeded even Nixon’s imagination," they wrote, referring to the 45th president's efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election.

Woodward and Bernstein draw a direct line between Trump's actions and the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the day lawmakers gathered to certify Joe Biden's presidential victory, with former Vice President Mike Pence presiding and refusing to play along with any bid to overturn the election's outcome.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; carlbernstein; media; seditiousjournalists; smokybackroomforum; tds; trump
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Nixon framed himself. He thought he was so smart.

Nixon was mainly about Nixon and he did much to screw up our country.


21 posted on 06/05/2022 6:56:43 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: TigersEye

Bernstein’s parents were card carrying members of the Bolshevik Communist Party and enemies of the United States.


22 posted on 06/05/2022 6:58:09 PM PDT by laconic
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To: Nextrush

Nixon thought he was so smart, but Nixon was mainly about Nixon and he did much to screw up our country.


23 posted on 06/05/2022 6:58:59 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: RandFan

And Joe Bidet was the president who finally destroyed America.


24 posted on 06/05/2022 7:01:21 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: RandFan

I thought Woodward and Bernstein were already branded fake investigators. There “contact” was a disgruntled federal employee who fed them info as a way of lashing out at his boss. They didn’t investigate anything, as it was all spoon-fed to them.


25 posted on 06/05/2022 7:03:14 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Dragonspirit

Why wouldn’t they have?

Back then, the RINOs were called the “New Republicans”, and they were just as treacherous as today. Nixon played by their rules and got burned; he should have listened to Reagan (see tagline).


26 posted on 06/05/2022 7:04:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: RandFan

In a way, he is seditious. By trying to fight the deep state, the real seat of power.


27 posted on 06/05/2022 7:04:59 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: RandFan

Obongo and the witch used the FBI to spy on an opposing party’s Presidential campaign but these “guardians of the truth” have remained silent on that one.
There is an obvious coordinated effort to push the Jan 6th BS hard at the moment. They are trying to get people to watch the public hearings.


28 posted on 06/05/2022 7:05:23 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: RandFan

It is clear that a takedown of the United States is on track to bury the truth.

What are the odds that these two liar reporters in history have seen 2000 Mules?


29 posted on 06/05/2022 7:05:57 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: RandFan

These 2 douchebag cryptkeepers?
Who cares, they’re 2 clowns who keep living off a two bit operation!
Yet refuse to see a coup which happened amongst, probably some
Of their best friends, against a sitting President!


30 posted on 06/05/2022 7:06:34 PM PDT by bantam
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To: RandFan

Woodward and Bernstein: complicit in the Steele Dossier hoax from Day One:

* * *

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia/index.html

Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him

Evan Perez Jim Sciutto Jake Tapper

By Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper and Carl Bernstein, CNN
Updated 5:26 PM EST, Thu January 12, 2017

* * *

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/woodward-bernstein-talk-trump-dossier-cnntv/index.html

Bob Woodward: The CNN story was ‘exactly right’
New Day
By Melissa Mahtani, CNN
Published 2:35 PM EST, Tue January 17, 2017


31 posted on 06/05/2022 7:06:48 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: RandFan

The Dem’s Jan 6 Committee is obviously coordinating a media blitz to promote their narrative. The media’s synchonized oral defecation act is getting old.


32 posted on 06/05/2022 7:09:46 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: markomalley

They used a modified, limited hang out.


33 posted on 06/05/2022 7:13:05 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: RandFan

IF GOD put Trump in the office of President to save this nation.... I’d be careful what words used in the description of what was ordained to stop these men and others from destroying our freedoms and the greatest nation on earth.

Don’t throw off a success such as what Trump was doing, when the upper crust in Washington did not like what he was doing. Looks odd they hate a man who would have saved their hide. Looks odd they went to such lengths...

No other man could have withstood what Trump has... and still in the wings for us. Trump has never showed hate like the anti Trumpers. Trump has never done the low down treasonous acts like the anti Trumpers. It’s gone beyond dislike for the man... it’s hate from a source I have not seen before... and it’s almost 100%. What are they after to destroy a man who was making things better....

There is no other description than to say it’s a battle between good and evil.. a spiritual battle and it’s all or nothing..

Look at the border... Abbott could call in the National Guard but has not. The constitution allows for states to use military in the event of an invasion.... and this is an invasion which has gone on too long... we are being inundated with all kinds of bad people and Washington does not care.

The corruption in Washington is above what has ever been... there is no balm in Gilead to save us from them.. There is no legal way biden should be in that office. It was stolen and anything stolen does not belong to the thief.. the thief does not get to keep the good. No one does anything... they leave him there as if they are afraid of the bullies on the playground... for the sake of this nation... get him out... we are going to pieces every day! the republicans are simple wimps and do not know how to fight...do not know right from wrong..

It doesn’t take a new law to remove the unelected senile in the office... he was illegally put there... just get him out .. hasn’t he done enough damage... he’s trying for a war... is that okay with you republicans? There is still a RIGHT and a WRONG... if you can tell the difference.... then do the right thing. If you don’t know... then you are one of them and in the way...
A clue.... we run this nation on laws and the constitution. we elect a President every 4 years by voting. No where in any place does it say the elite in Washington can overpower all the laws and the constitution and put a man in there who they can control.. and the dems can run this country by getting rid of Trump...
See anything wrong with what the dems have done?

I’m on a preach again.... every so often I just explode at what is going on in my country!!! and no one is doing a thing to stop it!! This isn’t difficult... what is difficult is seeing successes fall away.. paying for gas... groceries all have gone up.... China is no long afraid of the man you put in there... he doesn’t know where he is...
our military has as their commander in chief... this piece of a man..it’s embarrassing!! it’s dangerous!!!!!!!!

There is no justice... there is no authority to make anything right.. they eat their own and even more so if you are trying to do the right thing.. they go after you with a vengeance that is from the pit of hell... literally..


34 posted on 06/05/2022 7:14:27 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: RandFan

Oh please! Not these two morons again.


35 posted on 06/05/2022 7:15:25 PM PDT by Chgogal (If Democrats are not aborting babies they are starving them.)
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To: RandFan

Woodward and Bernstein are lap dogs of the deep state. They’re just setting up the narrative for the Jan 6th witch hunt. Trump did nothing wrong. The Dems are trying to frame him again. More evidence that the 2020 election was stolen emerges everyday.


36 posted on 06/05/2022 7:15:42 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul ("..)
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To: markomalley
Watergate isn’t even in the top 20 of the bad stuff he did. Campaign dirty trick? That’s just par for the course with all campaigns. The only problem there is that he got caught and covered it up rather than immediately disavow and employ plausible deniability.

If Watergate happened today, Nixon won't get impeached. We have alternative media today. Social media. Tucker Carlson on Fox News. MSM could attempt to control the narrative but Nixon will have defenders.

37 posted on 06/05/2022 7:20:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: RandFan

Woowatd and Bernstein are idiots. I don’t care what they have to say. They were plants trying to take down Nixon.


38 posted on 06/05/2022 7:21:27 PM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Hostage
What are the odds that these two liar reporters in history have seen 2000 Mules?

Not interested because it made Democrats look bad.

39 posted on 06/05/2022 7:22:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: capydick

Those 2 are trying to bring back the republican who they think disgraced the nation... Nixon was not the one who did what was claimed... he did cover for his men.. in a war, the chief is supposed to cover for his men... dean sat down on national TV and not only answered the questions.. he threw in all the bad things he could think of.. whether true or not.. he didn’t care... he was on a high back stabbing his boss and gaining a book deal.
these 2 men are doing their dirty work like they have all their lives. Trump is my President.. if he were in there today, we’d not be in the trouble we are in... the border would be closed...all the world would not be coming to our country with free everything... that we citizens don’t have.

I am furious with the Washington mob... absolutely furious with what they have done to our country...to our President;
they are living with no rules and no laws... just do what they want... they know no one will stop them.... sounds like a banana republic... and I’m livid...

livid because you who could...won’t do a dangone thing!!!!


40 posted on 06/05/2022 7:24:21 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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