“Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the television audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service — I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.” • Richard Nixon
Nixon’s re-election campaign was awash in cash, secretly donated by corporations and individuals. In the weeks leading up to April 7, 1972, just before new campaign finance laws went into effect contributors were literally flying into Washington with satchels of cash.
The Committee for the Re-Election of the President was also illegally hauling in millions of dollars from corporations, many of which felt pressured into making contributions.
The record of donors was kept in a locked drawer by Rose Mary Woods, Nixon’s secretary. The list — which came to be known as “Rose Mary’s Baby” — wasn’t released until the issue was forced through a lawsuit. “Rose Mary’s Baby” itself is now an artifact of our [previous to the current administration’s] biggest political scandal, sitting in the Watergate collection of the National Archives.
This time around, the corporations are still giving secretly, but legally. In 1907, direct corporate donations to candidates were legally barred in a campaign finance reform push by Theodore Roosevelt. But that law and others — the foundation for many Watergate convictions — are all but obsolete.
Daeder about 5 years ago
I’m sure the Soviet Union would be happy to offer amnesty…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z77JFw2D6f8
• Thomas about 5 years ago
“Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the television audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service — I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.” • Richard Nixon
Nixon’s re-election campaign was awash in cash, secretly donated by corporations and individuals. In the weeks leading up to April 7, 1972, just before new campaign finance laws went into effect contributors were literally flying into Washington with satchels of cash.
The Committee for the Re-Election of the President was also illegally hauling in millions of dollars from corporations, many of which felt pressured into making contributions.
The record of donors was kept in a locked drawer by Rose Mary Woods, Nixon’s secretary. The list — which came to be known as “Rose Mary’s Baby” — wasn’t released until the issue was forced through a lawsuit. “Rose Mary’s Baby” itself is now an artifact of our [previous to the current administration’s] biggest political scandal, sitting in the Watergate collection of the National Archives.
This time around, the corporations are still giving secretly, but legally. In 1907, direct corporate donations to candidates were legally barred in a campaign finance reform push by Theodore Roosevelt. But that law and others — the foundation for many Watergate convictions — are all but obsolete.
That President was a crook and so is this one.
Masterskrain Premium Member about 5 years ago
It’s called Preemptively covering your fat ass, you fat-ass!
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
Suddenly the Republicans became interested in prison reform.
feverjr Premium Member about 5 years ago
Trump knows the justice system can be bought and that if you can make the right appointments, rigged in your favor…..
https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/282064-report-attorneys-general-who-declined-to-prosecute-trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/magazine/trump-remaking-courts-judiciary.html
William Bednar Premium Member about 5 years ago
Well, he does have the new guys: Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, to back him up.
tauyen about 5 years ago
The Trump Gulag?