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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The Washington Post is dishonest. They are Clinton stooges and will tell any lie to see that Clinton wins.
Trump should never allow them near his campaign.
Well, Watergate was a true story...
And look what happened to Nixon!
Hey,, Bob.. This ain’t the 60s.. the enemy is on our shores this time and the borders are wide open.
Boo-Hoo Bob.
Mr. Donald Trump is smarter than Richard Nixon.
Y’all aren’t ever going to have Trump to kick around!
I’m used to being called a concern troll, so whatever.
But will it be used against him to say he is thin skinned?
I’m not saying he is, but was it strategically a good move?
...and look what happened to him.
TRUMP BUMP!
Nixon was a president
Trump is a candidate who is being lied about.
How is that a comparison?
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.
Nixon was a lot of things, but he wasn’t a coward.
Good.
That was why Nixon lost, should have done that before. Trump is a winner.
The National Enquirer now has more cred than the Washington Post. The National Enquirer earned the cred, the Washington Post has earned contempt.
Oh boo freakin hoo
The Post wasn’t even banned. They invented that. One of their reporters was banned. Trump pointed to the WaPo at his rally last night.
And Nixon did 1/100th what the Clintons have done, and 1/1000th what Obama has done.
What does Mr. Noble Woodward say about that?
Crickets.
Leaked DNC oppo research on Trump?
Confidential
Page
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Donald Trump Report
Democratic National Committee
Submitted: 12/19/15
http://thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/assets/djtdncgucc.pdf
Obama bans Fox, doesn’t he?
The WP is only banned from riding on Trump’s plane and hanging out behind the scenes with the Trump “journalist” pool.
The WP is making it sound like they are banned from his rallies and being denied the ability to “report”.
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