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Donald Trump is just a smaller, weaker Richard Nixon
The Hill ^ | 07/10/2023 | KEITH NAUGHTON

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: alwayschump; keithnaughton; nevertrump; nixon; smaller; trump; weaker
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To: spintreebob

“I’m not a fan of personality politics. It pales in comparison to what they actually do in government.”

Very true. Dennis Prager has said that if he had to choose between Trump and Obama based on (apparent) moral stature, Obama wins hands-down...but, as he says, he’s not picking a guy to hang out with his wife (or whatever), he’s picking someone to try to at least retain a piece of what this country used to be.


81 posted on 07/10/2023 4:55:11 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: rlmorel

Yes, Hiss was a Communist from way back in WWII and he and Harry Hopkins both were at Yalta (and Teheran before that with the completely feeble FDR) to make sure that Stalin got everything he wanted. They screwed the US and the non Soviet Allies-— all to set up the next 50 years of absolute hell.

Nixon exposed Hiss, Hiss tried to come across as the olde Harvard tie clown. It did not work. The Venona transcripts prove without a doubt a thorough Communist. Who should have been hanged for actual Treason. All true.


82 posted on 07/10/2023 6:51:16 PM PDT by John S Mosby (.Sic Semper Tyrannis.)
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To: cowboyusa

“Nixon should have been Impeached for taking us off the Gold Standard“

Can’t argue with that. And congress did put us serious fight.


83 posted on 07/10/2023 9:36:58 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: BobL

No other Republican will ever exceed the damage from the Clean Air Act, and Americans with Disabilities Act.


84 posted on 07/10/2023 10:02:09 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: rlmorel

One thing Nixon didn’t do was challenge the 1960 Election, even though he knew it was stolen.


85 posted on 07/10/2023 10:03:38 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: John S Mosby

That were always two things that registered with me, almost to the point of dark humor:

One, was when he was on trial, Hiss asked publicly during the proceedings, to make sure everyone could hear, whether someone could call the “Harvard Club” to tell them he was going to be late for some appointment. Only the most un-jaded could have refrained from rolling their eyes at the “Hey everyone, I am a Harvard graduate, not like the guy accusing me with a bad suit and bad teeth” effort.

The other thing, also when he was on trial, when they presented the evidence of documents he had maintained custody of, copied via a typewriter, matched up by FBI experts to his typewriter at his house, that were in Whittaker Chambers’ stache of documents that he gave to Richard Nixon.

When asked while he was on the stand about how this was possible, he said something like “I will never know how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter to frame me.” It was such a lame attempt by Hiss that that court spectators erupted in derisive laughter.

Yes. And it says volumes, that even with the Venona decrypts, that Leftists, clung doggedly to his innocence all those decades...ever AFTER they were released.


86 posted on 07/11/2023 4:20:58 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: Reverend Wright

I have always held that as somewhat of a badge of honor for Nixon that he didn’t.

Times were different then. We were more politically naive then as a nation, and Leftism had not yet advanced to the defiantly open stage it occupies now.

Personally, I have always given Nixon latitude due to his finally taking the fight to the North Vietnamese with the Linebacker II B-52 bombing campaign of December 1972.

What we should have been doing all along.


87 posted on 07/11/2023 4:26:03 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Hill is just a smaller, weaker National Enquirer…


88 posted on 07/11/2023 6:14:28 AM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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