@davejorgenson: Trump’s Justice Department is deciding if Nixon was mistreated. The department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the famed Watergate break-in committed misconduct, according to people familiar with the matter, more than half a century after that scandal led to Nixon’s resignation.  Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.” The review comes at a moment of renewed interest in the Nixon legacy. Republicans see in the combative former president, who was loathed by the press and besieged by investigations, a historical analogue for Trump. During remarks at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., this summer, Vice President JD Vance made the comparison explicit. “If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it’s not all that different from what the same groups of people—the same institutions—tried to do to Donald Trump in the first Trump administration,” Vance said. “There is a parallel.” Caption from article by Philip Wegmann and Sadie Rugman, WSJ.

Tim✌🏼 :

Me every day since 2016

Castlesunderground :

I think the term ‘revisionist historian’ may have just given me a brain aneurysm…

Amanda :

I need the scream pillow again

Ranger Houston :

We’re not going to be able to vote our way out of this.

UghLeigh :

I really wish someone could define deep state so I knew actually what I was supposed to be afraid of. are these garden moles? termites? that feeling just before you actually fall asleep?

vin (#1 clairo fan) :

yeah Watergate being a 12 hour story.. is not really a good thing 😭 just goes to show how crazy these past couple years have been

azaleagirl28 :

I apologize for not remembering the specifics but there was a huge scandal in the 1990s about not paying the employer tax for household employees. That’s why we have schedule H to file. It’s outrageous what is sliding by today.

Honesty Garmin :

no, i can't.

Carlos :

one has to admit that Nixon looks nicer now compared to what we are going through with the Trump administration

Rob :

Jackie Dunleavy :

Ugh I hate it here

G Rad :

I mean we've said what JD said but coming from JD it's excusing where as coming from is it's inditing

MLD26 :

😡

Gary Stinnett139 :

100% more plus in the name!

St. Enbious :

you could argue that. you could argue it's also a means to check power when the other fail safes... fail

Bobtheboulder :

mreow

ray.schein :

Go Harrys!

madampresident :

im so tired, man. 😭

Kelly Roberts :

These videos are so good

sharkbitingcomments :

Sorry this topic is too deep reading and makes me so anxious I had to scroll away. 😭

Love :

commieviking :

Michelle Ounanian :

OF COURSE HE DOES

Zan_The_Meximan :

Nery :

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