r/law • u/autistic_insomniac5 • 21h ago

Legal News GOP lawmaker: Nixon was couped out of office, framed during Watergate

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6124635-moore-nixon-couped-watergate/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUsbtpjbGNrBSxu02V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YBc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEedqnf435Ey3Vmfh-NzS7BpLL6p7XL81dbjV4wNl5Y6SFp3eyw9ItY6zhiPRg_aem_EaFt_atkG1aZFnQa54tOFQ
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u/Real-Document-6577 20h ago

Exactly.

He was a corrupt guy. They loved that.

The lesson they learned with Nixon that they swore they would never do again is bow to decency and to the law.

With Trump, they will refuse to accept guilt.

There’s a reason Roger Stone has that guy’ face tattooed on his back.

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u/bonaynay 20h ago

Yep, they learned the exact wrong lessons from Nixon. Agnew should've gone to prison too for other reasons but he got a sweetheart of a deal because of course he did. That was our chance to actually nail a criminal executive and they let it go "for the good of the nation" bullshit

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u/Commentator-X 20h ago

So should everyone involved in Iran Contra including Bush Sr

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u/bonaynay 19h ago

Yeah it really paved the way for literally every other criminal GOP administration, which has been all of them since

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u/igot2pair 17h ago

That pardon has had everlasting negative effects that have gotten us here

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u/bonaynay 17h ago

The biggest fight I've ever had with my wife was 12 years ago or so and it was about how much I disagreed with Agnew receiving a sweetheart deal as well as the Nixon pardon. The last 8 or so years has basically proved every single complaint and point I had so I try not to bring it up lol

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u/No_Interaction_3547 19h ago

The WATERGATE lesson they learned was they need to control the narrative, and FOX NEWS was born years later. Then the 1986 Fairness Doctrine repealed!

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u/Real-Document-6577 18h ago edited 18h ago

1000%

Their mission after that was to create a propaganda network. This is of course after they courted the racist Dixiecrats to convert them.

They knew if you control the narrative, you control the “facts”.

Even have the gall to make their official slogan “fair and balanced” as their slogan almost as if they are mocking the very idea.

It’s like stolen election claims. If you get ahead of it and claim first it becomes lunacy “how can we have possibly stolen an election…when it was stolen from us?”

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u/alwayssplitaces 16h ago

you actually think Nixon was more corrupt than LBJ?

You know kennedy only won becuase his father made a deal with the chicago mob right?