However, as usual, its basically the opposite (meaning Turmp and Republicans behavior has been to try and keep their old school corrupt broken all but outright white supremacist behavior as the status quo for government agencies as that's been changing). For the people saying that what Turmp did (with regards to various actions) have no precedence, go back and look at the Iranian arms sales and funding the Contras. Literally the same, arguably worse (because covering evidence required shredding documents back then, not just using encrypted messaging programs) was done by Republicans back then. And yet most people seem more focused on Oliver North's secretary. At the time, he literally used the Jack Nicholson "A Few Good Men" argument of "I did what I did because American needs us guarding that wall" (we just didn't get a public bombshell admittance that the movie did), where they claim any and all horrible shit they were doing was to save American lives.
Bush Sr pardoned people that were involved (with him) prior to their trials (meaning we never found out exactly what they did). Remember when people wondered if Turmp would/could do that? It already happened and fucking nothing was done about it. Republicans did all the same shit too. Stalled and were uncooperative and didn't turn over documents. Intentionally fucked up the investigations (in a variety of ways, including deliberately hamstringing the investigators) and just bleated "partisan witch hunt!" at every turn.
Its all the same shit. Its why they knew it would work, because Americans never understood or cared what actually happened, so they were of course doomed to let it repeat.
It also shows how much Nixon fucked us as every Presidential scandal was then viewed under the lens of the Watergate scandal, which completely fucked up how the Iranian arms sales and Contra support was approached.
Bush Sr pardoned people that were involved (with him) prior to their trials (meaning we never found out exactly what they did). Remember when people wondered if Turmp would/could do that? It already happened and fucking nothing was done about it. Republicans did all the same shit too. Stalled and were uncooperative and didn't turn over documents. Intentionally fucked up the investigations (in a variety of ways, including deliberately hamstringing the investigators) and just bleated "partisan witch hunt!" at every turn.
Its all the same shit. Its why they knew it would work, because Americans never understood or cared what actually happened, so they were of course doomed to let it repeat.
It also shows how much Nixon fucked us as every Presidential scandal was then viewed under the lens of the Watergate scandal, which completely fucked up how the Iranian arms sales and Contra support was approached.
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