his successor, for a lot of obvious reasons, but one of them was that he didn t want to get to the point where he would be indicted, he would have to be fingerprinted, he would have to have a mugshot taken because nixon knew enough about what was even then modern media to know that if there was a picture of him in a mugshot or his fingerprints were disseminated, be very hard for him to argue as he later did that he hadn t done much wrong. you know, you speak of richard nixon and 50 years ago today, the new york times published this article about nixon and the watergate scandal. can you just explain to us the parallels between what we saw in 1973 and what we are living through right now? well, richard nixon committed offenses that were to donald trump s like a lightning bug is to lightning. i would say what nixon did
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obstruction of justice. that s what we are talking. about that s what we talked about with nixon. abuse of power, certainly that s one of the things that we talked about with both trump and nixon. to compare nixon to donald trump, to use a metaphor from these storms that are hitting washington and elsewhere, nixon is a lightning bug, donald trump is a lightning storm. it threatens to knock out our power grid. this is a level of magnitude that is way, way, way beyond nixon. look at it this way. you are mentioning alluding to january 6th. the insurrection that involved the famous attack on congress and threatened to a coup d état that could have overturned our system of government and gotten rid of joe biden. installed donald trump as an unelected president who might have wanted to serve forever. the scale of that is so far beyond nixon that if we are looking for historical parallel,
that s what we are talking. about that s what we talked about with nixon. abuse of power, certainly that s one of the things that we talked about with both trump and nixon. to compare nixon to donald trump, to use a metaphor from these storms that are hitting washington and elsewhere, nixon is a lightning bug, donald trump is a lightning storm. it threatens to knock out our power grid. this is a level of magnitude that is way, way, way beyond nixon. look at it this way. you are mentioning alluding to january 6th. the insurrection that involved the famous attack on congress and threatened to a coup d état that could have overturned our system of government and gotten rid of joe biden. installed donald trump as an unelected president who might have wanted to serve forever. the scale of that is so far beyond nixon that if we are looking for historical parallel,