Posted on 06/15/2016 2:20:22 PM PDT by detective
Legendary reporter Bob Woodward says Donald Trump is taking a harsher stance against The Washington Post than even President Nixon did during the Watergate scandal.
"The Nixon White House did not formally pull press credentials of the Post" when the newspaper was reporting on the scandal that eventually forced Nixon to resign, Woodward said Tuesday, according to NBC News.
He added that Nixon did exclude the Post from covering social events at the White House, though.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, on Monday said he was revoking The Washington Post's press credentials over the newspaper's "dishonest reporting."
"Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record-setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post," he wrote in a Facebook post.
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Nixon was president, operating out of the White House and getting paid by government. He really couldn’t ban a newspaper.
Trump is a private citizen. He has the right to limit access by newspapers that will not report honestly.
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When Trump is president he can ban them at the White House, too.
Boo f-—in hoo
The Washington Post was a better newspaper years ago. Trump's giving them the respect they deserve in today's world... which is 'none'...
Woodward and Bernstein were hacks who were handed the story by the Washington Post who got it from disgruntled Mark Felt who wanted to destroy Nixon because he was past over for FBI director after Hoover died.
There’s a reason he had to dig several decades to use Nixon as an example instead of using the current occupant (other than he broke the Watergate story).....or.....he’s getting so senile he can only remember things that happened a long, long time ago.
Want some cheese with that whine?
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