Watergate

Former White House counsel John Dean, who was imprisoned for his role in the Watergate scandal, Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead,” estimated that “about 30% to 35% ” of the U.S. population was “very hardcore” and “authoritarian.”

Tuesday on “CBS “This Morning,” journalist Bob Woodward discussed recently-released tapes of his interview with President Donald Trump in which the president acknowledged his intention to downplay the coronavirus to prevent widespread panic. The interview was for Woodward’s new book about the Trump administration, “Rage.” “This Morning” co-host Tony Dokoupil asked Woodward if he agreed with his former colleague Carl Bernstein that the Trump tapes are “graver than Watergate” because of the loss of life in the pandemic.

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued a highly unusual order in the Michael Flynn case on Tuesday, inviting outside groups to submit amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs weighing in on the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss charges.

President Donald Trump on Sunday repeatedly challenged former President Barack Obama for investigating him and his winning campaign before leaving office.

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) stated that the information revealed by the Watergate tapes “was piddling compared to what was absolutely proven” in President Trump’s impeachment. Nadler said,

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) called President Donald Trump’s impeachment proceedings “a global Watergate” during the Thursday night Democrat debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

Neither of their two articles meets the constitutional standard for impeachment. The first article accuses the president of “abuse of power,” a charge so vague as to be meaningless.

President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tapped Watergate prosecutor Jon Sale to represent him in the ongoing Democrat-led impeachment probe, it was revealed Tuesday.

Impeachment pursuits, such as the one we’re seeing today over the White House “whistleblower,” have proven that Democrats must stay on message, or be defeated.

Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned plea for the public to presume then-President Richard Nixon “innocent until proven guilty” at the height of the Watergate scandal in 1973.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the current 2020 Democratic presidential frontrunner, made racially insensitive remarks and comments women might find offensive in a 1973 speech.

Some Democrat strategists are doubling down on calls to impeach President Trump as Democrats plan their next steps.

Appearing Thursday on CNN’s The Lead, former Nixon White House counsel and network contributor John Dean claimed special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings are “more damning” than the Watergate, Iran Contra, and Ken Starr reports.

Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean said Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election does not resolve whether Trump is a Russian agent. 

Michigan Democrat Representative Rashida Tlaib claimed that popular outcry has driven her to introduce legislation against the President immediately.

Since last week, the news media has been busy churning out content echoing a talking point propagated during Congressional testimony by President Trump’s disgraced and disbarred attorney Michael Cohen claiming that Trump will not allow a peaceful transition if he loses the 2020 election.

Bob Woodward criticized CNN for suing the White House over the temporary suspension of reporter Jim Acosta’s “hard pass” press credential.

On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s “Wolf,” journalist, author, and CNN Political Analyst Carl Bernstein stated, “what we are watching in the Trump presidency is worse than Watergate.” He later added that President Trump “is a demonstrable authoritarian in terms of

At the end of all the scandal and drama, all of the breathlessly reported lies and false accusations, at the end of all the money wasted on some zany kabuki swamp dance choreographed to the thrumming of giant bullfrogs and yipping of excited coyotes — at the end of all of this — it comes down to precisely what we said it was a year and a half ago.

Members of the House on Thursday said they viewed a “shocking” classified memo allegedly detailing abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by senior Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigations officials in relation to the investigation of the Trump campaign and called for it to be declassified and available to the public immediately.

Actor George Clooney and writer Matt Charman are developing a limited Netflix series on the Watergate scandal that engulfed former President Richard Nixon.

“I think the uranium sale to Russia and the way it was done so underhanded with tremendous amounts of money being passed, I actually think that’s Watergate, modern age,” he said to reporters at the White House on Wednesday.

Sony Pictures Classics released a new trailer for Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House, starring Liam Neeson as Felt– or “Deep Throat,” the secret source who helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover President Nixon’s role in the Watergate scandal.

On Saturday, thousands of anti-Trump protesters rallied throughout the United States in the “March for Truth,” where they called for an independent commission to investigate alleged collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia and renewed calls for him to release his tax returns.

On Saturday, over 135 cities will join a coalition of 17 “national progressive groups,” Democrat and progressive members of Congress, a Watergate prosecutor, writers, celebrities, musicians and activists in a series of national rallies known as the “March for Truth.”

In an interview with the Atlantic released on Friday, journalist Bob Woodward stated that “We are not into Watergate level yet, by any means.” And urged reporters to “calm it down, listen more,” while being “as aggressive as possible,” and never

Pat Buchanan, an adviser to Richard Nixon, presidential candidate, and original rallying point of the American populist-nationalist movement spoke with Breitbart News Wednesday to discuss the myriad Watergate comparisons making the rounds in Washington.

Longtime Trump opponent Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) added his voice to the chorus of alarm Tuesday in the wake of a New York Times report on an alleged memo from ex-FBI Director James Comey.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,”  deputy assistant to President Donald Trump weighed in on the report that former National Security Adviser Susan Rice was behind the “unmasking” of Trump transitional officials in raw intelligence after the 2016 presidential election.

In a guest column for the Washington Post, actor Robert Redford describes the difficulty he had in getting Hollywood producers interested in his 1976 film All the President’s Men, which revolves around the investigation into former President Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, and warns that 45 years after that politically momentous event, “the truth is again in danger.”

Attorney Robert Barnes joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about his first article for Breitbart, “The Media, Obama, and the Deep State.”

Whenever the media loses control over a powerful term, be it “fake news” or “deep state,” they react with infantile rage, and immediately demand cessation of the term in its “unapproved” use. As part of that process, they attempt to restrict its historical application to some definition that delimits its use against their ideological interest. Their attempt to rescript the meaning of words gives new meaning to Orwellian for the media’s would-be Ministry of Information.

“Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?” was reportedly the question King Henry II asked of his knights in 1170 AD to goad them into murdering the English Archbishop, Thomas Beckett. Did President Obama utter a similar wail to inspire his intelligence agencies to wiretap Trump headquarters at Trump Tower?

On Tuesday’s edition of FNC’s “Hannity,” WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange argued that Watergate journalists Woodward and Bernstein would have been prosecuted by the Obama administration. Assange said, “Under the Obama administration, Deep Throat — Woodward and Bernstein would have been prosecuted.

A new poll in Texas shows that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s lead has swelled to 12 points over opponent Hillary Clinton.

Pollster and political analyst Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday, “There are conflicts all over the place”regarding Hillary Clinton’s ongoing email scandal, which Caddell compared it to the Watergate scandal of the Nixon era.