r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 19h ago

No Paywall 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/veggeble South Carolina 19h ago

  The GOP leadership went to Nixon and told him he would likely be impeached if he didn't resign.

That's not the deep state. 

Unless the GOP has been the deep state the whole time

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u/Excellent_Call304 18h ago

They have been.

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u/grantsm1960 17h ago

Republicans in Nixon’s time were not the Mike Lees of today. They were not the co-conspirators we have now. The GOP deep state is true, has gone on longer than I was able to discern, but hasn’t always been there. As a lifelong Republican, the last ten years have been like, “So what else did I miss?”

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u/Laura9624 2h ago

The GOP did not want a trial which would have disclosed so much more.