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Nixon Historian Says New Donald Trump Indictment Boils Down To 1 Thing
huffpost ^ | 06/09/2023 | Lee Moran

Posted on 06/09/2023 7:15:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Donald Trump “understood that he got power when he was elected, but didn’t understand that he had obligations,” presidential historian Timothy Naftali said Friday of Trump’s indictment for mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House.

“We live in a Constitutional democracy. Everybody, including the president, is bound by the Constitution and there are limits to their power,” Naftali, the former director of the Richard Nixon presidential library, told “CNN This Morning.

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To: ChicagoConservative27

“We live in a Constitutional democracy. Everybody, including the president, is bound by the Constitution and there are limits to their power,”

Like Biden forgiving student loans?


41 posted on 06/09/2023 10:05:16 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
re: " We live in a democracy."


42 posted on 06/09/2023 10:13:55 AM PDT by conservativeimage (Help Reassemble Civilian Government. Join Your State Assembly - tasa.americanstatenationals.org)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Constitutional Democracy? I remember taking a oath to the Constitutional Republic 30 years ago.


43 posted on 06/09/2023 10:24:00 AM PDT by Trueblackman (I would rather stick my head up my a** & walk down an Interstate off ramp than believe Biden.)
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To: delchiante

. . . and to the REPUBLIC . . . . for which it stands . . .


44 posted on 06/09/2023 10:55:39 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“We live in a Constitutional democracy...”

Wrong. We live in a Constitutional republic.

45 posted on 06/09/2023 12:03:19 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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46 posted on 06/09/2023 2:14:20 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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