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progressoid

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23. Sort of.

Sun May 20, 2018, 09:26 PM

May 2018

It's arguable that Nixon resigned primarily due to the negative public opinion of him (thanks to the NYT and WaPo) and his lack of support from Congress. The investigation did nab quite a few of the committee to re-elect et. al., but not actually Nixon.

Of course today we are in a completely different political landscape. Assuming Mueller and his team have the smoking gun(s), a large swath of the American public either think this is a deep state witch hunt or they just don't care about it. Also, we certainly don't such an honorable Congress to put pressure on Trump to resign. Finally, is Trump principled enough to resign?

Shit's gonna get really weird in the coming couple years.

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538 "How Mueller's First Year Compares To Watergate, Iran-Contra And Whitewater" [View all] NRaleighLiberal May 2018 OP

From NPR Gothmog May 2018 #1

That chart ob Mueller is going to come in very handy. nt procon May 2018 #2

giving this a kick NRaleighLiberal May 2018 #3

K&R HAB911 May 2018 #4

Notice how NO indictments during the OBAMA years. Despite years & years of Benghazi & emails. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2018 #5

Yes! :) And ONE presidential indictment from Whitewater, Hortensis May 2018 #10

No Drama Obama djacq May 2018 #13

That is something the Right Wing tried apkhgp May 2018 #29

Did Iran-Contra really go for 6.5 years? Rabrrrrrr May 2018 #6

Brilliant chart...easy to understand. Best part? No Obama Admin. investigations! Glorfindel May 2018 #7

Noticed That Too ProfessorGAC May 2018 #8

And none of them took down a president. progressoid May 2018 #9

Agree about not putting all our dreams in the Mueller investigation. However, dump's approval erronis May 2018 #18

Watergate took down a president. yardwork May 2018 #21

Sort of. progressoid May 2018 #23

Bigger than Watergate MrScorpio May 2018 #11

Notice who is missing.... TalenaGor May 2018 #12

Everyone notices that President Obama's name is missing from the chart ornotna May 2018 #14

Investigations of all five Republican administrations during this period. maddiemom May 2018 #28

K&R 2naSalit May 2018 #15

Kick dalton99a May 2018 #16

The idea that the Watergate investigation obtained more BobTheSubgenius May 2018 #17

I believe this is because the Russia interference investigation to be Uncle Joe May 2018 #22

one reason it's going faster is the use of computers, certainot May 2018 #19

It might be worth noticing, however... JayhawkSD May 2018 #20

More proof Obama was the least corrupt president in American history. Drunken Irishman May 2018 #24

Message auto-removed Name removed May 2018 #25

Wow! That is stunning! JNelson6563 May 2018 #26

I love Obama's name is missing Ztolkins May 2018 #27