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Trump says he would have fought Watergate, quitting Nixon’s ‘biggest regret’
washingtonexaminer ^ | 03/09/2023 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 03/10/2023 8:55:07 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Former President Donald Trump revealed today that Richard Nixon’s “biggest regret” was giving in to GOP pressure to resign during the Watergate impeachment crisis, a move the 45th president said he wouldn’t have made.

“His daughter actually told me that his biggest regret was that he didn't fight, he should have fought,” Trump said, without identifying which daughter. But, he added, Nixon lacked the public support needed to carry on.

“I'm not sure that that had an impact one way or the other,” he said, had Nixon resisted.

In a media roundtable to discuss the April 25 release of the president’s second post-presidency book, Letters to Trump, Secrets asked about his relationship with Nixon shown over 25 letters included in the book published by Winning Team Publishing, founded by Donald Trump Jr. and adviser Sergio Gor.

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


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Nixon beat McGovern in a massive landslide = NOT ALLOWED Trump beat Hillary = NOT ALLOWED
1 posted on 03/10/2023 8:55:07 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Nixon beat McGovern in a massive landslide = NOT ALLOWED Trump beat Hillary = NOT ALLOWED”

The media and the Democrats (but I repeat myself) were as slimy in the 70s as they have been in the last decade.


2 posted on 03/10/2023 9:04:46 AM PST by Prolixus (In all seriousness:)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And Trumps biggest problem is that he too just quit.

That election was STOLEN from him. And we all knew it. Even Democrats.


3 posted on 03/10/2023 9:09:54 AM PST by Celerity
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To: Celerity

On what planet did Trump quit?


4 posted on 03/10/2023 9:14:46 AM PST by moonhawk (Unleash the MAGAhideen!)
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I wasn’t alive during Watergate, but the GOP is so weak.


5 posted on 03/10/2023 9:17:04 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nixon should have disavowed that idiocy, thought up by John Dean to retrievw incriminating evidence against his wife.


6 posted on 03/10/2023 9:17:37 AM PST by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We’ll see how trump does.


7 posted on 03/10/2023 9:22:07 AM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sounds like he’ll have his chance to show how he’snot a quitter.....he’s about to be endicted on some bullshit charges in New York.....he might wanna focus on that not something that happened 50 years ago.


8 posted on 03/10/2023 9:22:43 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nixon knew that he was going down. He recognized he had lost his political base.

Self awareness is a good trait in life.


9 posted on 03/10/2023 9:28:04 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Prolixus

Nixon set the outline for disposing of popular Republican Presidents by the crooked media and Democrats. Mark Felt was a precursor of the FBI insider ‘coup’ department orchestrator.


10 posted on 03/10/2023 9:33:14 AM PST by silent majority rising
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I still remember the front page of the tabloid newspaper THE STAR headline. JEAN DIXON SAYS NIXON WILL NOT RESIGN!

It hit the news stands the very day Nixon resigned. I now wish I had bought a copy.

Ten years later Dixon’s publicity department was claiming she had predicted the resignation. NO SHE DID NOT!

For those who don’t remember Jean Dixon, in the 1950s up till her death she was considered an accurate psychic. I cannot remember any “prophecies” she made that came true.

https://christiancourier.com/articles/jeane-dixon-and-the-psychic-hall-of-shame


11 posted on 03/10/2023 9:40:36 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump said he would never have quit like Roberto Duran did against Sugar Ray Leonard.


12 posted on 03/10/2023 9:44:57 AM PST by Italian Scallion
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To: moonhawk
On what planet did Trump quit?

Earth. Third planet from Sol. The one you currently inhabit.

13 posted on 03/10/2023 9:47:38 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I remember seeing the Star headline. JEAN DIXON SAYS NIXON WILL NOT RESIGN! and the small print said “until Noon today.” Jean covered all her bases.


14 posted on 03/10/2023 9:54:32 AM PST by Gigantor (Either the United States respects its Constitution, or there is no need for a United States.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

looking back at Nixion it is obvious to me that Nixion had a deep state hit on his Presidency. the same individuals that did the hit on trump were the interns and the new to DC political crowd that are involved in the Jan 6th recreation of a Reichstag burning. this last 10 years has been verry educational to me when viewing past events that got highly politized. I now look on past history with healthy a skeptics mind as to what I am being told happened.,


15 posted on 03/10/2023 9:54:43 AM PST by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: TakebackGOP

I can’t locate the retrospective Nixon interview now although I have probably 10-12 books just about Nixon (Pat Buchanan’s two are the best) there was the usual interview question about why he stopped fighting.

Nixon said “When I heard the Democrats had made the decision to go after me criminally I decided I should resign rather than have the presidency tarnished like that.”


16 posted on 03/10/2023 9:55:08 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Celerity

Nixon says he would have fought COVID, quitting 2020 election was Trump’s ‘biggest regret’.


17 posted on 03/10/2023 9:56:36 AM PST by conservativeimage (The world is not dark. The future is not bleak. Tomorrow will be a good day.)
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To: TakebackGOP
I wasn’t alive during Watergate, but the GOP is so weak.

Although it was a travesty of justice, and Nixon didn’t do anything that warranted his removal, he was doomed. There was no internet, nor conservative talk radio; and thus, no way to get out an alternative message. The Commie loving Mainstream Media was 100% against him, and that was the only message getting sent.
Nixon might have been a mediocre President (giving Mao a blank check, weakening our currency, etc), but he was overthrown by a coup. Watergate, and its coverup, was a nothing.

18 posted on 03/10/2023 10:00:39 AM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Celerity

The clown car of “attorneys” pretending to “stop the steal” were beyond embarrassing. All hat, no cattle.

This was his big fight?

Typical


19 posted on 03/10/2023 10:03:53 AM PST by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: El Cid

Nixon was a pinko rhino.


20 posted on 03/10/2023 10:06:05 AM PST by cowboyusa (There is no co- existence with Pinks and Reds)
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