It seems most everyone associated with Watergate that is still alive is coming out of the woodwork today. It makes me wonder if Watergate was a plot to discredit President Nixon.
“It makes me wonder if Watergate was a plot to discredit President Nixon.“
You don’t have to wonder - that’s exactly what Watergate was. Geoff Shepard (former lawyer on Nixon’s staff) wrote a couple great books about it.
Nixon started his legal career exposing communist infiltrators. When Eisenhower left office he warned about Roosevelt’s unelected administrative state (deep state) which he noted “remains in place while Presidents come and go”.
So the deep state feared Nixon - they stole the 1960 election for the same reason they stole the 2020 election from Trump - they were afraid he was serious about putting term limits on the administrative state and holding it accountable to the voters. They couldn’t let that happen.
When Nixon won in 1968 and was re-elected by a huge landslide in 1972, the deep state had to find another way to get rid of him - hence Watergate - totally made up just like Jan 6th.