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by Josh Feldman | Aug 3rd, 2018, 5:09 pm
Veteran reporter Carl Bernstein told Wolf Blitzer on Thursday that whats happening with the Trump administration right now is actually worse than Watergate.
At least Nixon, he said, didnt publicly act unhinged.
In Watergate, the system worked, Bernstein explained. The President of the United States did not publicly declare the press an enemy of the people and seek to undermine the First Amendment and the very legitimacy of what the press did, though he did try to make our conduct an issue in Watergate rather than his own conduct.
And then he said things are worse now:
Watch above, via CNN.
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BigmanPigman
(51,610 posts)This time around we have a treasonous president who is aiding a foreign enemy in attacking our election. He is a Russian agent.
Nixon was none of these things. He was also crazy, but not nearly as crazy as the Fucking Moron. Also this time we have a GOP Congress and Senate who is aiding him I stead of checking him. THIS IS THE BIG DIFFERENCE and somewhat unexpected by most people when he was inaugurated. Nixon was not personally in huge personal debt to the foreign enemy either. Yes, Watergate is kids' stuff compared to Russiagate.
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)senators are retiring and leaving, and not doing anything about the mess they are leaving behind...they helped make this mess. They need to forget party, and remember country first, and step up to the plate...
Golden Raisin
(4,609 posts)recently graduated from college. Watergate was like the White House's annual Childrens' Easter Egg Roll compared to the Trump/Complicit Republican firestorm we are currently living through. There are many similarities and many complex differences but one of the main differences is that Watergate was domestic in nature whereas the Trump cataclysm is full of disturbing international elements. This is WAY worse!
Saboburns
(2,807 posts)Welcome to the party.
brewens
(13,596 posts)the Vietnam peace talks after all. It will probably depend on just how much harm Trump eventually causes.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Tricky Dick was crooked, a bigoted man, all that. But he was competent and nothing like the total abomination now in office.