Showing posts with label Watergate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Watergate. Show all posts

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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/


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







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