Posted on 07/02/2024 8:33:44 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
John Dean, former White House counsel for the Nixon administration, said he believes former President Nixon “would have survived” the Watergate scandal if the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling issued Monday, which largely shields former presidents from criminal prosecution for actions in office, existed at the time.
Asked what would’ve happened with Nixon if the immunity ruling was in place during the fallout from Watergate, Dean pointed to Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who split from the other conservative justices on a portion of the majority opinion regarding the use of president’s official acts as evidence in criminal prosecution against a former president.
“Well, there’s actually two rulings in this decision. There’s a 6-3 for presumptive immunity, but there’s also a 5-4 on you can’t even have the evidence of official conduct come to play,” Dean said Monday. “This is very…this to me, appears to certainly influence the existing law on presidential conduct [and] what’s available…evidentiary speaking. Amy Coney Barrett said she didn’t think that it should be so restricted as the decision of the court itself was, so I think that Nixon would have survived. I think he would have walked under this ruling.”
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John “I’ll Bet you Thought I Was Dead by Now” Dean?
“Anyone who understands Crossfire Hurricane but thinks Watergate was the result of legitimate law enforcement is too stupid to be allowed out of the house.”
Truth!
But he would not have survived. Criminal charges after leaving office and Impeachment are two totally different things.
Impeachment is political. If the GOP had every seat in the House and Senate, they could still vote to impeach and convict Biden and he would not be President. Criminal charges would be a different matter.
Having said that, Nixon was pardoned by Ford. But had he nor been, this immunity issue may well have come up.
Is John Dean still wasting our oxygen?
he wouldn’t have been found guilty of anything, but he couldn’t have survived impeachment, he didn’t have the votes.
Notice how the GOP has no interest in continuing this lawsuit now that they are back in power.
How’s your wife John?
‘cept under the guise of national security....or whatever Hillary claims it is
And Obama would have survived murdering US citizens and Fast and Furious under immunity ruling.
And Clinton would have survived Ruby Ridge and Waco (murdering US citizens) under immunity ruling.
And Roosevelt would have survived Japanese and Italian Internment camps under immunity ruling.
Except, of course, D Presidents never get charged with crimes, no matter how criminal. So they don’t need immunity.
“Authorizing the Watergate burglary was not an official act as the Supreme Court defined it.”
There was never any evidence he authorized the watergate burglary.
Limited brain capacity and or emotionally impaired.
Why listen to a man who marries a Hooker, then turns against his boss for political reasons? John Dean? I have no respect for his thoughts or actions. His word have no power, like Woodward and Bernstein, he is famous for being the face of the CIA’s coup against America.
Richard Nixon did not authorize the Watergate break-in. Nixon in fact, did nothing wrong during the entire affair. The MSM was the only game in town, and they went after him “hammer and tong”. In 2024, We the People would have had his back.
Nixon would’ve walked ?
EeYeaaahhhh !
Howard is an idiot and a liar. Nixon would still have been impeached for high crimes by Congress. Immunity does not protect a President from impeachment the way the founding fathers wrote the constitution.
Nixon was railroaded.
This is the only time that they dredge this Zombie up. Whatever the current Republican is doing is worse than Nixon!!!
And so much other Dem corruption/criminality.
I seriously doubt it. The CIA wanted him gone, and we know they get what they want, even if they have to murder a president to get it.
Nixon had to major hurdles to get over. He had no avenue to talk to the American people like Trump does. If Trump had the monolithic media of cbsabcnbc, he'd probably be long gone, or dead. Also, in '73, very few Americans realized how evil the people pulling the strings behind the government were.
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