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 ...
Screw them two losers.
If their intent is to radicalize me and people like me.....they are succeeding.
Woodward and Bernstein’s 15 minutes of fame ended 40 years ago... Stenographers for disgruntled FBI agents are a dime a dozen now...
Their branding matters a hill of beans. Glory days fellas, glory days— well they’ll pass you by.
Hey, they maligned Nixon and it worked for them.
Yet they praise the clintons, obamas, bidens.
Amen!
They steal an election, then call it “sedition” when you call them on it.
My question is why are the Dims calling out all, ALL, of their guns to throw mud on the opposition party? They must agree with the Republican view that the Democrat party is devoid of (new) talent and is, in fact, a party of losers! Can’t let that out.
I agree that Big Ears is the most seditioous usurper ever. He’s the one who started this crap that Biden’s spouting. Biden probably failed 2nd grade math. But Biden learned enough to parrot the words that Obummer is telling him each and every day of this year.
The only way to show the Left that the rest of us mean business is to do the same thing to their politicians. Investigate and harass the hell out of them when power is re-taken.
Nixon’s corruption could not even begin to compare with the continuous outrages, lawlessness, and criminal and unconstitutional actions by Biden, Obama, and the Clintons.
These two has-beens are only interested in investigative journalism when it can further their personal politics. Turns out it never was about the truth.
Isn’t it interesting how these guys are all exposing themselves now - and good for us to see who they are.
Sue them. Empty their bank accounts.
#53. Yes, and thank you for pointing it out.
They’re still alive? I hadn’t noticed.
That’s what John Dean is doing with this final last word(s) on Watergate.
Donald trump poster child of corruption. How stupid do you think we are?
Yep.
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