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StClone

(11,683 posts)
Wed Nov 11, 2020, 04:07 PM Nov 2020

R Stands for Recidivist-Over 50 years of Crime by (R) Presidents

Recidivist: a person who continues to commit crimes even after being caught and/or punished.

Relate to me the worst crime you can recall a President having committed in the last 50-60 years. And without a doubt your answer will involve a Republican President. Democratic presidencies dating back to 1970 have produced exactly one criminal conviction from investigations into the administration. Republican presidencies have had a total of 91. Outside of Clinton's falling into the Republican constructed perjury trap of lying about his affair (historians will note over 40% of Presidents have had affairs) with Monica Lewinsky. Dems have shown little propensity for law breaking while in office. And worst of all is these Republican law-and-order, Christians, button-up Conservatives escape punishment!

Here is a list of Republican Presidents biggest criminal hits, by no means complete, which show a real tendency for criminality:

-Nixon Treason Aware that the presidential campaign of Richard Nixon is encouraging the South Vietnamese government to stay away from peace talks with the Americans and the North Vietnamese, President Johnson alerts Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-IL) to the campaign's interference, and asks that Dirksen urge the Nixon team to cease and desist rb.gy/vio5fb

-Nixon's Watergate scandal No problem. Some henchmen received short sentences, but the main perpetrators got off pretty easy. Career criminal Spiro T. Agnew pleaded down to one felony tax charge, was fined a small amount he could easily pay with his ill-gotten gains and put on 3 years of unsupervised probation. Nixon was allowed to resign and waive his stupid victory signs at the airport. He was pardoned by Gerald Ford. rb.gy/hofgsl rb.gy/5li9pg

-Ronald Reagan's Iranian Contra Many people, on good authority, accused Ronald Reagan of working with Iranian hostage-taking terrorists, inducing the latter to hold onto the hostages to embarrass President Jimmy Carter and sweep into office a hero on their immediate release. This is deemed a conspiracy theory. Many news organizations found the story credible, but short-lived congressional committees said there wasn’t enough evidence. Years later, several Iranians and former Reagan and Bush officials came forward — it was true. Nothing was done.

-Scooter Libby and the Valerie Plame incident.
-Iraq War, torture, illegal war.
-Now Trump's reign of pure evil criminality.


When people say they hate crooked Politicians they are should be stating Republicans. But somehow, the Republicans are still in charge of much of the Government!

For Republican presidents, the rot runs deep. You have to go back to Eisenhower to find a GOP President not associated with a crime of historic proportions. And, before him, the last Republican presidents were those of the famously corrupt 1920s. Warren Harding anyone?
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