(((YAWN))) I wonder if his parents or grandparents told this clown about Ford and Nixon.
It is one of the things I give Ford credit for. Also, even though the SS Mayaguez incident turned into a bit of a disaster, sadly, I give him credit for that as well. That was decidedly an unpopular thing to do, as we had just recently fallen and the American public was, on the surface, done with things over there.
Must a pardon be accepted to be in effect, also isn’t accepting a pardon an admission of guilt?
I don’t need any snarky answers, I’m genuinely ignorant on these matters.
Trump lives in their heads 24/7....still.
What no one tells you is Daniel Elsberg was a nuclear weapon designer at Los Alamos and he kind of lost his mind.
They were worried he was going to jump ship to the Soviets.
This was the real reason for the break in.
This guy is a leftie TDS clown. Feel free to ignore him.
Ford didn’t pardon Nixon because he deserved pardoning, he pardoned him because there wasn’t a court in the known universe where he might got a fair trial.
Pardoning Nixon ended the distraction of the campaign to crucify Tricky Dickie and let the government get back to its real job. As bad as the consequences from that act might have been, the alternatives all probably would have been worse, both for Nixon and the country.
Nixon, if you didn’t know, had nothing to do with the Watergate break-in before the fact. But he was a proud man who’d withstood many years being shat upon by the press. Since he didn’t order the break-in, he couldn’t conceive that his minions would have executed it without warning him first. So when the accusations came to his doorstep, his opening position was, “didn’t do it, wasn’t there, you can’t prove a thing” (apologies to Bart Simpson).
Backing down from that position only would have encouraged his detractors in the press, and his (alleged) criminality came in the cover-up that followed.