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Nixon and Trump
• https://www.ericpetersautos.com, By ericThe came Watergate, as it came to be known. Which actually came before; it was just that it took a while for the public to know about it and for the public's support for Nixon to fatally bleed away.
What happened was that operatives for the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP, it was called) had among other things broken into offices located in the Watergate Hotel complex, which is Washington, not far from the White House, ostensibly to gather dirt on prominent Democrats, as by installing bugs on phones and filching through files inside the offices of the Democrats. The so-called burglary was bungled. Or at least, it was found out. Whether Nixon had ordered the burglary or even knew it had been ordered is something the historians continue to argue about. What is known – because Nixon can be heard on tape discussing it – is there was an attempt to cover it all up. This ultimately did Nixon in. He was forced into ignominious early retirement.
Is Trump headed for the same?
Maybe – and maybe not. It is not 1974 anymore and America is a very different place. Nixon had to flee because of something that, today, would be regarded with indifference by most Americans. Some underlings working for him broke into the offices of the political opposition. And? Well, Nixon lied about it. For that he had to go. We live in an America that has gotten so used to lies most Americans no longer know what the truth is – or care, for that matter.
The truth about the event that provided the pretext for that – Nahhhhnlevven – has yet to be fully, officially, dealt with. People – most people – just accept the lies, shrug and motor on.
Will this time be different?
Maybe. Maybe not. The difference, this time, is that most people are personally revolted by the kind of allegations wafting around right now. Nixon was a crook, certainly. The Chimp was – is – a psychopath. But what is a man who says he would not date a woman younger than his daughter, whom he also said is "hot" and a "piece of ass." He said the "hot" part when Ivanka was 16. Also that "If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father . . ."
Now he is saying his supporters are stupid – and worse – for asking why Trump seems so personally bothered about the Epstein stuff, whatever that turns out to be. Not even Nixon called his supporters stupid. At least not publicly.