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Woodward and Bernstein brand Trump the 'first seditious president'
Washington Examiner ^ | June 05, 2022 09:51 AM | by Daniel Chaitin, Deputy News Editor

Posted on 06/05/2022 6:36:39 PM PDT by RandFan

Former President Donald Trump has surpassed Richard Nixon as the poster child of corruption, according to Watergate sleuths Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

The pair, famous for how they helped expose the Watergate scandal in the Nixon administration nearly 50 years ago, were again published by the Washington Post on Sunday, days ahead of when the House committee investigating the Capitol riot is scheduled to hold the first in a series of summer hearings, calling Trump the first "seditious" president.

Whereas "instruments of American democracy finally stopped Nixon dead in his tracks, forcing the only resignation of a president in American history," Woodward and Bernstein write that Trump "not only sought to destroy the electoral system through false claims of voter fraud and unprecedented public intimidation of state election officials, but he also then attempted to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to his duly elected successor, for the first time in American history."

Trump, who has denied responsibility for the Capitol riot, engaged in a "deception that exceeded even Nixon’s imagination," they wrote, referring to the 45th president's efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election.

Woodward and Bernstein draw a direct line between Trump's actions and the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the day lawmakers gathered to certify Joe Biden's presidential victory, with former Vice President Mike Pence presiding and refusing to play along with any bid to overturn the election's outcome.

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


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; carlbernstein; media; seditiousjournalists; smokybackroomforum; tds; trump
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Why did Trump allow this idiot access so he could peddle his stupid books?
1 posted on 06/05/2022 6:36:39 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Would these dinosaurs please become extinct?


2 posted on 06/05/2022 6:37:44 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: RandFan

Butt kissing Leftists crying out for relativism.


3 posted on 06/05/2022 6:39:35 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (The only good Democrat is one that remains dead. )
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To: RandFan

The Kenyan from Indonesia is clearly the most seditious usurper ever.


4 posted on 06/05/2022 6:42:38 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RandFan

“Woodward and Bernstein brand Trump the ‘first seditious president’”

We brand Woodward and Bernstein the most idiotic notable publishing duo. If the public could toss tomatotoes at them they’d be crushed into a human spaghetti sauce.


5 posted on 06/05/2022 6:43:36 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: RandFan

These two clowns have to keep their franchise alive, can’t have it overshadowed by the real corruption of the Biden Crime Family


6 posted on 06/05/2022 6:43:38 PM PDT by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: RandFan
Lemme guess....they've got a book coming out?
7 posted on 06/05/2022 6:43:51 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: RandFan

Heckle and Jeckle on their lofty paper perch.


8 posted on 06/05/2022 6:44:23 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: RandFan

They’ll say anything to be relevant again before they croak 🤪


9 posted on 06/05/2022 6:46:31 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: RandFan

If so, Biden would be the second and by far the more destructive


10 posted on 06/05/2022 6:47:12 PM PDT by sopo
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To: RandFan

Absent any admission of what was done to the best President ever, their assertions are nothing but drool.


11 posted on 06/05/2022 6:50:21 PM PDT by Migraine ( )
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To: RandFan

These two are the Captain Qeeeg reliving their greatest caper instead of dealing with the crisis at hand. And the crew of the Caine are suffering for it.

Guess rolling ball bearing doesn’t pay much.


12 posted on 06/05/2022 6:51:35 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: RandFan

President Donald Trump is a Natural Born Citizen and has done nothing to steal an election.


13 posted on 06/05/2022 6:51:41 PM PDT by TigersEye (Shall not be infringed!)
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To: RandFan

Yeah, telling people to march peacefully and patriotically in front of the Capitol Building to protest a stolen election is sedition.

Woodward and Bernstein need to ride off together into the sunset.


14 posted on 06/05/2022 6:53:18 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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To: RandFan

Nixon did a lot of bad stuff during his Administration. Took the US off the gold standard and made the dollar a fiat currency, opened up the PRC, wage and price controls. Surrendered to Vietnam.

Watergate isn’t even in the top 20 of the bad stuff he did. Campaign dirty trick? That’s just par for the course with all campaigns. The only problem there is that he got caught and covered it up rather than immediately disavow and employ plausible deniability.


15 posted on 06/05/2022 6:53:37 PM PDT by markomalley (Directive 10-289 is in force in the US -- already gone Galt TYVM)
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To: RandFan

So they framed Nixon too ?


16 posted on 06/05/2022 6:54:25 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: RandFan

The Bible talks about those who do not receive “the love of the truth” (2 Thess. 2:10) who instead actually believe a lie.

All the evidence of the fraudulent 2020 election and you still have these people who believe the lie that it was not rigged.

Apparently Woodward and Bernstein are among the ones who “take pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thess. 2:12) and are themselves swallowed up by the lies they believe.

It will get worse. This is only a preview of coming attractions in this world.


17 posted on 06/05/2022 6:55:22 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: RandFan

Republicans never should have pulled support from Nixon over nothing and these two hacks wouldn’t have had a career.


18 posted on 06/05/2022 6:55:25 PM PDT by Dragonspirit (CNN is the enemy. Ashli Babbitt is the hero.)
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To: markomalley

Nixon stood by his people on Watergate and he paid a price for it.

I think Nixon and or his people bad stuff aside from Watergate.


19 posted on 06/05/2022 6:55:43 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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Even if he was, he wouldn’t be the first.

But the opposite is true, anyway. He is the only NON treasonous President in the last 35 years


20 posted on 06/05/2022 6:55:58 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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