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As weird as it seems (to me anyway) there has always been a group of conservative republicans who maintain that Nixon did nothing wrong and all of the restricti
by lokar 7mo ago
As weird as it seems (to me anyway) there has always been a group of conservative republicans who maintain that Nixon did nothing wrong and all of the restrictions on the president passed then are inappropriate.
- sixothree 7mo agoOf course they didn't want us to see that evidence for ourselves, or have any hearings whatsoever.
- cogman10 7mo agoOne of them, Roger Stone, worked on the trump campaign and has a Nixon tattoo on his back.
- hypeatei 7mo agoAlso: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/roger-stone-found-guilty-obstruction-false-statements-and-witness-tampering https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/roger-stone-found-guilty-... > Stone was found guilty of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress, and tampering with a witness
- dylan604 7mo agoAnd then pardoned by Trump
- salawat 7mo ago...Were those judiciary findings or legislative? I don't actually think that the President can Pardon someone incarcerated by the Legislature. Maybe the solution to all this mess is for Congress to finally flex the Sergeant-at-Arms position. While there is a delegation to the Department of Justice for efficiency sake, there technically isn't anything preventing the Legislature from doing it's own footwork.
- dylan604 7mo agoThis Congress? Flex? Against this POTUS? Not going to happen.
- Hikikomori 7mo agoStone was also involved in the Brooks riot helping getting bush the win. Amy Coney Barret and other supreme judges appointed by Trump were involved in the lawsuit brought to the supreme court. It's the same fucking people.
- aaronbrethorst 7mo agoACB, Kavanaugh, and Roberts were all on Bush's legal team for Bush v. Gore. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/bush-v-gore-barrett-kavanaugh-roberts-supreme-court https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/bush-v-gore-barrett-...
- _doctor_love 7mo agoThe Trump/Nixon connection is deep: - https://blog.nixonfoundation.org/2020/09/unseen-correspondence-between-nixon-and-trump-on-display-in-special-exhibit-at-the-nixon-library/ https://blog.nixonfoundation.org/2020/09/unseen-corresponden... - https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/23/donald-trump-richard-nixon-pen-pals-420567 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/23/donald-trump-richar... - https://abc7chicago.com/post/1987-letter-nixons-predict-trump-would-win-office-if-he-ran/1602408/ https://abc7chicago.com/post/1987-letter-nixons-predict-trum...
- smallmancontrov 7mo agoIt's only weird if you believe they hold their stated values. If instead you infer their values from their actions and extrapolate forwards, you haven't been surprised in 50 years.
- triceratops 7mo agoNot weird at all.
- dylan604 7mo ago[flagged]