Posted on 12/27/2019 7:58:23 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
There are "significant differences" between former President Richard Nixon's impeachment process and President Donald Trump's, according to journalist Tom Brokaw, including how the two leaders handled difficult times in office.
"Nixon was always aware of being presidential," Brokaw told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Monday night. "Trump plays from the gutter frankly."
Last week, the House of Representatives voted along party lines to impeach Trump for abuse of power and obstructing Congress. Trump has maintained his innocence since the inquiry into his dealings with Ukraine was launched in September, calling the process a "witch hunt," and his supporters, including Republican legislators, have continued to support the president.
Brokaw told Matthews that this public display of support for Trump is a different situation from when Representatives pursued impeaching Nixon. At the time, Brokaw said, the Republican Party didn't speak out against impeaching the president the way they are today.
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Had he lived then, Brokaw would have hated Andy Jackson.
There was probably a time long ago when most news readers were at least minimally sane. - and then we had an era where the news jocks had at least enough common sense not to so flagrantly reveal their rabid mental sickness ( and overt bigotry). Today, all bets are off. The inmates have taken over the lunatic asylum.
Nothing President Trump does will ever be good enough for the left. Because he is taking their power away. And all the left cares about is power.
Those of the left live and fight in the gutter. They fight for themselves. They despise The People and The Republic because both place limits on their lust for power.
President Trump is a fighter. He fights for The People and The Republic. And he is winning, even if he has to do it in the gutter. That means the left is losing; losing their power, and being revealed to the world as utterly depraved. The left hates President Trump for this.
We, The People and The Republic, need this man. He fights, and he wins!
Nixon benefited from the fact that there were conservative or moderate Democrats back then who preferred him to the alternative. Also, while intellectuals, artists, students and the usual people who make a career and a life out of liberalism or leftism hated and despised Nixon, that wasn’t a very large part of the population. Today, realignment means that a president of either party has a much larger jeering section.
Nixon was Republican and Presidential just like the elites and pointy head journalists wanted him to be. Where did it get him??? Every Republican President is categorized as dumb, unaware, and unfit for office. Trump just as well fight them in the gutter where they come from as opposed to allowing them to come up from the gutter and attack him.
Trump speaks frankly and often derisively, but he’s no match for the gutter talk and the absolute nastiness and slander (Nazi, fascist, white-supremacist, etc.) that routinely stream from the mouths of Democratic politicians, “journalists,” and celebrities.
Both Nixon and Trump have far far more class than any sleazy newsreader. (Yes, sleazy is an unneeded modifier.)
Hope Tom gets his dentures fixed...
“Marbles Mouth Brokaw” is a despicable traitor who has pushed marxist propaganda for decades.
“I cant wait til he gets re-elected. The rivers of leftist tears will be glorious.”
It’s going to make their 2016 election reaction look like a baby’s whimper.
...which is sometimes where you need to play from if you want to beat Democrats (who live in the gutter).
Amen!!! These “legends”, full of pompous, self-important piles of crap still can’t get over the fact that we now have a President that gives as good as he gets and doesn’t kiss the rings of the likes of them.....Brokaw, Blather, Donaldson......the list goes on......damn, I hate them!!!
I don’t really care what Tom Brokaw has to say.
I really did wish that President Nixon would have been much more like President Trump when it came to his own self defense. I remember how disheartening it was to see how those Commies went after him tooth and nail, and he just allowed it.
Its a good thing that salacious lies about urinating prostitutes isnt playing in the gutter.
That and the fact that although perhaps a decent news reader, Tommy wasn’t all that sharp or bright, being mentally clouded by his own sense of self-importance.
Hows you 401K these days, Tom? And Trump Isnt kissing Chinas ass like Tricky Dick did either. You can have your Nixon. Ill take Trump, thanks just the same.
Yeah, Tom, you WISH Trump were the kind of milquetoast Republican prior politicians were. I don’t doubt that. Trump is an EFFECTIVE fighter who can frustrate the meanest, dirtiest fighters American history has ever seen. Screw you and your side, Tom. Really. I mean that.
Hey, Tom Brokaw and other elite liberals, no matter how much you cry, moan and bitch, Trump will still be your president today and tomorrow.
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