'If it wasn’t clear before this weekend, it should be now: Donald Trump’s presidency makes Watergate look tame,' writes mattklewis.
"If I run and if I win, we will treat [the Capitol rioters] from January 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly,"
To be sure, Trump accidentally made an important point about “treating them fairly.” As it’s unlikely the 45th president will ever pay any legal price for inciting a riot that temporarily halted Congress’ certification of the election, it hardly seems fair for his ground troops to be punished for following his orders.
Rather than being forced into the political wilderness, and his party plunged into a deep-cleanse of soul-searching, Trump remains the most likely GOP nominee for president in 2024. Meanwhile, most of his accomplices have either completely skated or were pardoned by him. In the event Trump is re-elected in 2024, the people who, threatened to “hang Mike Pence,” and attacked police officers will likely be pardoned, too.
Nixon didn’t have some of the advantages Trump has enjoyed, such as a major cable news outlet dedicated to supporting him and an army of disinformation propagandists on the internet. Worse still for Tricky Dick, the GOP of 1974 still had the capacity for shame, as well as the courage and will to hold powerful people accountable.
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