• tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Meh. I kinda wish we would have set a harder precedent with rather than letting him go on a PR tour.

    I think it possibly could have prevented a lot of the ensuing political corruption we’ve seen.

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      1 year ago

      Same could have been said if we had actually nailed Ronnie Raygun to the wall for Iran/Contra. Instead, we let him coast. And that was even worse than Watergate.

      Republicans have been skating for years and years for their crimes.

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        1 year ago

        Might’ve happened had there been a precedent for it. Same with all the war crimes for Cheney/Bush. Instead they’re counting their money and fingerprinting.

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      Ford pardoned Nixon, so there wasn’t much that could be done to punish Nixon after that. They couldn’t even go after him at the state level since the Watergate scandal happened in DC. Pardoning Nixon was a major part of why Ford didn’t get reelected, although there were several other major reasons for that.

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        1 year ago

        Obviously, but Ford shouldn’t have. That was most of the point.

        Still, that wouldn’t have made him immune to impeachment (and hopefully the ultimate barring from holding office).

        But the point is moot, and bipartisan vileness will ensure we don’t see a precedence for any of these things in decades.