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Originally Posted by finnbow
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Just a little historical note, also righteously pinned on Republican lapels. If not for the deal between Nixon and then Vice President Gerald Ford where a "corrupt bargain" was struck between the two criminals that Ford's pardon was granted in exchange for Nixon's resignation, elevating Ford to the presidency. Why was Nixon so desperate for a pardon? Because a few weeks before the 1968 election, at the direction of Nixon, one of his fascist underlings, perhaps Haldeman or Erlichman contacted Vietnam President Thieu and convinced him that if he walked away from the Paris Peace talks, Nixon would win the election and Thieu would get a way better deal with the North than he would from Humphrey. That is treason. Nixon knew it, LBJ new it went down, Everett Dirksen knew it from LBJ, they all knew it. Nixon knew he was going to be guilty in the impeachment trial so he cut this deal with Ford...to avoid being convicted of a hanging offense.
Trump would have been the number two criminally indicted ex-President.
Treason: Nixon undermined the Paris Peace talks.