Showing posts with label Watergate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Watergate. Show all posts
Sunday, April 3, 2022
‘They called her crazy’: Watergate whistleblower finally gets her due
Martha Mitchell, wife of Nixon's attorney general who ordered the break-in at the scandal's heart, was drugged and kidnapped…
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Newly Released Tapes Go Inside Nixon's White House During The Watergate Scandal (Dave Davies, Fresh Air podcast)
King Richard author Michael Dobbs reconstructs how the scandal gradually engulfed more administration officials, with operatives turning on each other — and eventually the president.
Interview:
Friday, January 10, 2020
Congressional Republicans abandon constitutional heritage and Watergate precedents in defense of Trump
Once, not so long ago, congressional Republicans were impeachment’s constitutional stalwarts.
They stood up for the House of Representatives’ “sole power of impeachment,” a power granted in the Constitution, including the right to subpoena witnesses and evidence. Even when the president under investigation was a Republican. Even when the Republican political base threatened to turn against them.
But that was when the president was Richard Nixon, not Donald Trump. ....
http://theconversation.com/congressional-republicans-abandon-constitutional-heritage-and-watergate-precedents-in-defense-of-trump-129313
http://theconversation.com/congressional-republicans-abandon-constitutional-heritage-and-watergate-precedents-in-defense-of-trump-129313
Friday, November 22, 2019
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Nixon White House Counsel: Mueller Report ‘More Damning’ Than Watergate Report - The Daily Beast
"If you endeavor to obstruct you've violated the obstruction statute," John Dean said.....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-dean-nixon-white-house-counsel-says-mueller-report-more-damning-than-watergate-report
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-dean-nixon-white-house-counsel-says-mueller-report-more-damning-than-watergate-report
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Michael Cohen’s testimony exposed a direct parallel between Trump and Watergate - The Washington Post
The secret payoffs made by President Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen to silence two women alleging affairs with Trump before the 2016 election recall the secret payoffs made by President Richard M. Nixon’s personal attorney, Herbert Kalmbach, to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars and insulate the White House from investigation.
In both cases, the hush-money payments violated campaign finance laws. But there are crucial differences...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/03/06/michael-cohens-testimony-exposed-direct-parallel-between-trump-watergate/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/03/06/michael-cohens-testimony-exposed-direct-parallel-between-trump-watergate/
Friday, November 23, 2018
Dems won popular vote in House races by margin not seen since Watergate - The Hill:
Democrats claimed 8.6 million more votes than Republicans in the midterm House races earlier this month....
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/417953-dems-won-popular-vote-in-house-races-by-margin-not-seen-since-watergate
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/417953-dems-won-popular-vote-in-house-races-by-margin-not-seen-since-watergate
Saturday, November 10, 2018
How enormous was 2018? Democrats have picked up the most House seats since Watergate - Daily Kos
So far, Democrats have flipped 34 Republican-held House seats in the 2018 midterms. Because the GOP only won two Democratic seats, that means Democrats have netted, at the moment, 32 seats in total. Here's how huge that number is: It's the largest number of seats Democrats have won in a single election since Watergate. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1811290
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1811290
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Stupid Watergate II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver explains how the president and his allies are going full O. J. in order to undermine the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.....
https://youtu.be/mOVPStnVgvU
https://youtu.be/mOVPStnVgvU
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Tom Brokaw explains why he finally started believing Trump's Russia scandal was like Watergate – and it’s frightening -- Raw Story
Journalist Tom Brokaw, who covered the Watergate scandal as White House correspondent for NBC News, explained his change in thoughts on the similarities be that scandal and the Russian investigation of President Donald Trump. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/tom-brokaw-explains-finally-started-believing-trumps-russia-scandal-like-watergate-frightening/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/tom-brokaw-explains-finally-started-believing-trumps-russia-scandal-like-watergate-frightening/
Thursday, January 25, 2018
The FBI's 'secret society,' explained -- CNN
Conservative media is aflame of late with talk of a "secret society" within the FBI which has as its goal the undermining of Donald Trump's presidency. The existence of this secret organization is evidence, they argue, of a Deep State conspiracy against Trump. This is a story as big as Watergate, they say.....
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/politics/fbi-secret-society-analysis/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/politics/fbi-secret-society-analysis/index.html
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
'No regard for the rule of law': Watergate prosecutor slams Trump's 'absolutely outrageous' crusade against the FBI -- Raw Story:
On MSNBC's 'The Beat' on Tuesday, two legal analysts both used the term "absolutely outrageous" to describe the latest reported efforts by the White House to obstruct special counsel Robert Mueller's investigations. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/no-regard-rule-law-watergate-prosecutor-slams-trumps-absolutely-outrageous-crusade-fbi/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/no-regard-rule-law-watergate-prosecutor-slams-trumps-absolutely-outrageous-crusade-fbi/
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
John Dean: Nixon ‘Might Have Survived If There’d Been a Fox News’ -- POLITICO
The star witness of the Watergate investigation says the Russia scandal is far from over, but Trump has advantages his predecessor didn't. ....
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/02/john-dean-nixon-might-have-survived-if-thered-been-a-fox-news-216207?cid=apn
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/02/john-dean-nixon-might-have-survived-if-thered-been-a-fox-news-216207?cid=apn
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
New Republican War Cry: Mueller Probe ‘Worse Than Watergate’ -- The Daily Beast
The conservative media got the memo: Whenever the Russia probe comes up, get outraged and say that it—as in the probe itself, not what it may be uncovering about Trump—is "worse than Watergate." After all, that's what Democrats have been saying for months about what the probe may be uncovering about Trump. The questions now are how did this become a talking point on the right, and what do they mean by "worse than Watergate?" ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-republican-war-cry-mueller-probe-worse-than-watergate
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-republican-war-cry-mueller-probe-worse-than-watergate
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Still Making Excuses for Trump? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
The enduringly lame explanations to excuse a scandalous president.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBAAzC0KtsU&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBAAzC0KtsU&feature=youtu.be
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Trump: In Watergate, FBI reported to DOJ as a courtesy | PolitiFact
President Donald Trump talked about how the FBI handled its findings as it investigated the Watergate break-in and its ties to the Nixon White House in a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times.
Here’s the transcript from that moment in the conversation with three reporters:...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/21/donald-trump/trump-watergate-fbi-reported-doj-courtesy/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/21/donald-trump/trump-watergate-fbi-reported-doj-courtesy/
Friday, June 16, 2017
What does Robert Mueller's team tell us about the Russia investigation?
Seasoned lawyers with a depth of experience that includes the investigations into Watergate, Enron and the bombings of the US embassies in east Africa won't be intimidated by the intense spotlight, experts say ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/15/robert-mueller-trump-russia-investigation-team-members
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
What conservative pundits are writing about Trump's 'Watergate' moment -- the guardian
The Trump administration, after just four months, appeared this week to be headed into a Watergate-style abyss, as the Comey memos piled on leaked classified secrets and a special counsel was appointed to examine team Trump’s Russia ties. Some conservatives have already concluded that Trump has to go. Others are defending him, if not on the grounds of a continuing allegiance, then on the grounds of process. Another group is creating whatever distractions it can to get grassroots rightwingers to focus on something else. If that tactic works, it’s because their readers are permanently suspicious of everything that liberal media outlets print....
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/18/burst-your-bubble-conservative-pundits-trump
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/18/burst-your-bubble-conservative-pundits-trump
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