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Watergate had tapes. Trump has tweets.
vox ^ | 08/06/2018 | Ezra Klein

Posted on 08/08/2018 5:20:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

he Watergate tapes stand as one of the stunning, implausible twists of American history. Nixon confessed his crimes and recorded himself in the process. Who does that?

In their book The Final Days, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein write, “the single thread that linked the problems together was the President’s tapes. The lawyers represented a President who had bugged himself, who had blurted his secrets into hidden microphones. They had not yet heard the tapes, nor seen any transcripts of them. The President would not permit it. They were told to mount a defense, but were not given the information to do so.”

The Watergate scandal became about those tapes — the battle to make them public and expose Nixon’s private confessions. Without the tapes, a resignation would have been unlikely. This was a flimsy bit of providence, a ridiculous chance act upon which the integrity of our political system came to rest. But so it went.

The White House today has no internal taping system. But it has, perhaps, something serving the same purpose: Donald Trump himself.

(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Unclassified; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: nixon; stupid; trump; watergate
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dream on, liberals!!!

“oh, the good ol days of Watergate!”

GET OVER IT!


21 posted on 08/08/2018 5:49:02 AM PDT by browniexyz
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To: Lazamataz

There ya go alright.


22 posted on 08/08/2018 5:49:07 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hello there—good to see you.


23 posted on 08/08/2018 5:50:31 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah we got tweets showing Trump colluded with the Russians and Fusion GPS and Christoher Steele to produce a fake dossier on Hillary that he presented to a FISA court while hiding the fact it was made up BS his campaign had paid for in order to start an investigative witch hunt against Hilary...or not.


24 posted on 08/08/2018 5:52:28 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Marjorie woods owned up to about 7 minutes of this as I recall.
Who did the investigations on this?

Who were the tapes turned over to?
Hillary?


25 posted on 08/08/2018 5:54:20 AM PDT by South Dakota
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Nixon's tapes were secret, Trumps tweets are out in the open.

26 posted on 08/08/2018 5:56:23 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Get mental help.


NO! I like them just the way they are. :)


27 posted on 08/08/2018 5:59:28 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Deranged


28 posted on 08/08/2018 6:01:52 AM PDT by kabar
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To: BitWielder1

Hillary erased her emails.


29 posted on 08/08/2018 6:03:40 AM PDT by kabar
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nixon was tried and convicted by the media, not a real court.

We didn’t call it fake news back then, but it was.

Unfortunately for Richard Nixon, people accepted whatever the media dished out.

45 years later, the media is trying Trump and finding him guilty, just as they did with Nixon.

But Trump isn’t bending over and taking whatever the media serves up- he’s shoving it back in their faces.

The wicked witch is dead.
Hail Trump.

The fake news’ time for honoring itself has come to an end.


30 posted on 08/08/2018 6:05:17 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: ChicagoConservative27

One Yugely gigantic problem.

Nixon’s tapes were his 1st Amendment ramblings that he wanted kept private because they showed his impropriety.

Trump’s tweets are public, 1st Amendment ramblings that everyone acts like are official government communiques but they are not.

With the rabidness and conspiracy of the anti-Trump coup in this country, if Trump has tweeted ANYTHING that can be used against him, I am surely sure that they would be using it to its fullest and not just writing fake news stories about it.


31 posted on 08/08/2018 6:06:24 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
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To: mewzilla

Remember during the Watergate break in how Nixon used the FBI to wiretap and plant spies in his opponents campaign. Oh no, wait. That was the Hillary campaign.


32 posted on 08/08/2018 6:23:15 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

>>The Watergate tapes stand as one of the stunning, implausible twists of American history. Nixon confessed his crimes and recorded himself in the process. Who does that?

JFK
LBJ

It was JFK who installed the taping system.

LBJ’s tapes were finally released decades later in the 90s.


33 posted on 08/08/2018 7:14:45 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: ChicagoConservative27
More proof the Establishment Media has become a MAD magazine parody of themselves.
34 posted on 08/08/2018 7:18:37 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The MSM saw the downfall of Nixon and their role in it as journalism’s shining hour.

They have been salivating at the prospect ever since of repeating this feat, of bringing down a Republican President. And thus the constant comparisons to Nixon. They are obsessed.

Needed repetition....loudly

35 posted on 08/08/2018 7:30:32 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

RUSH was right, when the Dems are out of power they are 24/7 birdsh*t kooky and s is the Liberal media.

The contrast when the GOP is out of power is amazing to behold.


36 posted on 08/08/2018 7:32:41 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: mewzilla

The public gets its history from TV and the movies. Reading to get it is way too hard!


37 posted on 08/08/2018 7:46:28 AM PDT by Reily
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To: ChicagoConservative27
A tweet saying, 'Rosenstein should be fired' is an opinion, not an order.
38 posted on 08/08/2018 8:33:46 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: stars & stripes forever
Ezra Klein doesn't understand that we've been to this dance before.

And this time, we brought baby Harp seal clubs. Nail-studded.

39 posted on 08/08/2018 9:09:20 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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