Posted on 07/10/2023 6:18:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
“I gave them a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I would have done the same thing.” — Richard Nixon.
What Nixon said, Donald Trump could easily say about himself. Of course, he will not.
Richard Nixon was the last president who faced anything like the legal jeopardy former President Trump is facing — plus a frothing electronic lynch mob.
The end game for both Nixon and Trump has some eerie similarities. Detested by the media, the New York-Washington elites and the left, both Nixon and Trump were subject to a nonstop campaign to destroy their administrations and their futures. Both played off the haters for political gain. Both ended up making severe errors in judgment that brought them down. Trump even managed to get caught on tape incriminating himself.
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The left hates it when they are proven Marxists Donald Trump keeps them exposed by the good work he does.
Every democrat president combined couldn’t have done all the good work Trump has done in one term it’s why they fear a second term.
I am not sure how Trump could be both worse than Hitler but weaker than Nixon. It’s almost like they are just slinging insults to see what sticks.
Nixon did hold rallies, especially during his re-election campaign. A tried to attend one of his rallies at the airport in Ontario, Calif. in November, 1972, but was unable to get in because the stadium was full.
However, none of his rallies was on the scale of Trump’s. And when Nixon’s presidential motorcade rolled through town, he didn’t have massive crowds lining the streets for miles, waving flags and signs.
The unanswered question: Why did Deep State feel the need to get rid of him?
Clueless scribbling. Now Joe Biden is a little Nixon, only Nixon wasn’t a thief, lousy parent, plagiarizing hack, liar, or C Student from the bottom of his class.
Nixon’s rallies sucked but..... he won 48 percent of 18 to 24 year-old voters, 52 percent of under 30 voters, and 54% of voters in labor union families, and the first GOP sweep of the South.
Nixon won 60.7 percent of the popular vote and 520 electoral votes.
He still holds the record as having achieved the widest popular vote margin in any presidential election.
Nixon lied to us (his supporters) and we wanted him out as much as the RATs did. He had no prior knowledge of Watergate but participated in the coverup.
Compared with Biden’s family crime wave and “10% to the big guy” Nixon was a piker!
Strawman argument is so twisted in this comparison that it completely disregards reality.
In a true comparison, Nixon was setup by the swamp when they thought assignation of another President that still invoked ties to the time of Kennedy might expose too much. Nixon asked the wrong questions and within weeks was lynched by the swamp and media. Trump had less time and ties to the swamp so the normal smear failed. Trump remains an exigent threat because he learns more about the swamp every day and he is proving to be a potent enemy.
Goldwater filled up a lot of big stadiums but he got demonized hard and early by the three letters, all the out of context negative word play and fearful innuendo killed him. he got Trumped bigly
I do think he was advised by Ehrlichman to take that position of “no knowledge” and then was stabbed in the back and thrown under the bus by Ehrlichman and the other deep state moles with the Boob Tube culture of the times gobbling up the MSM drama, We all still worshipped and believed in “The News” in those days
I was there when nixon was crucified.
There is no..NO. comparing the 2.
Nixon stronger?.. you wouldn’t say that if you knew nixon...making a story to suit Trump haters is not reporting...
Nixon was never strong..
Trump is way ahead of you ....
Not a bad analogy.
I certainly didn’t understand what ACTUALLY happened in “Watergate” until I understood Crossfire Hurricane.
Pathetic!
The nice part of this article is that fairly soon they will have to call Trump “Mr. President” again and, with luck, a whole bunch of federal leach employees will be on unemployment.
I never liked Nixon and don’t like him now, but I can’t imagine how you can call him weak, the older I get the more I keep seeing what an iron man he was and tough in high power politics.
Look at his career and how much was directed against him since at least the 1950s, yet how he not only endured but prevailed.
He was despised and mocked, belittled, even dismissed from politics after the 1960 election, but look at post 47.
Interesting - thanks for the info. I’ve never heard anyone mention rallies for any president outside a few first-election events.
As far as the scale of Trump - you might have to consider the scale of simmering anger over communist take-over. More people, esp. since the COVID Hysteria, are fed up with Dem histrionics and getting their way all the time.
I see FDR got 60.8% popular 1936. Slight edge.
Just curious when you wanted Nixon out. Because the ‘72 was a massive landslide, more than his initial election.
“The Left never forgave him for showing Alger Hiss to be the scumbag traitor he was. Hiss should have been hanged.”
The hatred started with Helen Douglas.
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