Posted on 06/15/2016 2:20:22 PM PDT by detective
Legendary reporter Bob Woodward says Donald Trump is taking a harsher stance against The Washington Post than even President Nixon did during the Watergate scandal.
"The Nixon White House did not formally pull press credentials of the Post" when the newspaper was reporting on the scandal that eventually forced Nixon to resign, Woodward said Tuesday, according to NBC News.
He added that Nixon did exclude the Post from covering social events at the White House, though.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, on Monday said he was revoking The Washington Post's press credentials over the newspaper's "dishonest reporting."
"Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record-setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post," he wrote in a Facebook post.
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Boo-hoo-hoo! But Obama banned the Washington Times!
Back in the day the Washington Post was not owned by Jeff Bezos who seems to be using it for his own political agenda.
Agreed. We already have a traitor president 20 times over.
Should have been impeached long ago
The difference is that Watergate was factual, and the stories were for the most part true. The ComPost treatment of Trump is much different.
I’d like to think that the WaPo had more integrity back then.
he should have
thin skin means you better not F wi’im.
Translation:
Don't hold me accountable for treason....look here at Nixion and Trump
I like that twist :)
another good point was he’s NOT president now, so he has every right to do that.
Like ALL the dems who refuse to even show up on FOX news.
not that i’ve watched it for a year. Might start again. I dont know. Was getting kind of loud.
They weren’t making up lies about him. Truth was bad enough. By today’s standard it was peanuts.
But did the Post attack Nixon and deliberately print lies about him for a year? If it did, Nixon would have been justified in barring them.
Never liked Woodward or the other guy.
Remember when Obama Administration said this about Fox News?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2009/1012/obama-vs-fox-news-now-the-gloves-are-off
“As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave,” Anita Dunn told The New York Times.
How about that time when Ed Henry walked out of a press briefing by Jay Carney because he refused to call on any TV reporters?
Or this:
“It looks like Fox won the first major skirmish after being denied entrance to a White House press pool event.”
https://grandrants.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/fox-news-vs-white-house-fox-1-wh-0/
Trump isn’t Nixon.
But Nixon, as President, DID refuse to hold press conferences for months and months on end.
If I recall my presidential history, reporters have often been kept off the candidate’s or president’s plane, etc. Not really uncommon.
And Nixon lost
Nixon was missing 8 minutes of tape, likely a human error.
Hillary destroyed 30 thousand Top secret emails, and left the rest exposed to espionage and lied about it.
Where is your outrage Bob?
When you assign 25 reporters to dig up meaningless dirt on Trump more than 25 years old that has no relevance but not one reporter to investigate the Clinton foundation, the wall street speeches, the Clinton charities, the deals with foreign countries including selling USA uranium to the Russians. Clinton taking payoffs from foreign governments in exchange for policy at State Dept.
You guys don’t deserve press credentials your in the Clintons pocket, not fair reporters, your part of her campaign.
How much are the Clinton’s paying the Wash. Post?
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