‘Beyond Stupid’: Watergate-Era Lawmaker on Trump’s Nixon Fixation
Nick Akerman says the review could legitimize a revisionist theory that Nixon was unfairly targeted and undermine established legal norms.
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Trump Administration Plan to Review Nixon Investigation Is Dangerous, Watergate Prosecutor Warns
Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman has criticised a reported Justice Department investigation review, stating that revisiting disputed claims could undermine confidence in the rule of law.
In the Tumpian reading, the investigators committed crimes and the 37th president was victim. An attempt by the president to trace a daring parallel between his own person and that of the predecessor, all the more so now that the word impeachment returns to the reasonings of Washington of powers, with the optimist Democrats on the midterm and the Republicans who run away to the mere hear of Trump
Watergate prosecutor sounds alarm on Trump's 'extremely dangerous' new plan
President Donald Trump's administration has a new plan in motion to potentially rewrite history on one of the GOP's biggest ever scandals, with one former Watergate prosecutor warning on MS NOW that their intentions are "extremely dangerous."The Wall Street Journal reported this past week that the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility was looking into "whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the famed Water…
‘Beyond stupid’: Watergate-era lawmaker on Trump’s Nixon fixation
A former lawmaker who helped spearhead the impeachment of Richard Nixon decried on Sunday as “just beyond stupid” a Trump administration effort to rehabilitate the late disgraced president’s conduct. Former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, D-N.Y., told MS NOW that the Justice Department’s reported…
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