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what did they do that was so wrong?


Is it worse than Hilary Clinton not sending troops to help our ambassador and others keep from being killed/burned to death?
No.

Do pacs have a slush fund to try to reelect presidents? yes.
What in the world was this big story really about? As if the Dems haven't done as much and worse. The repub idiots just got caught. Nixon was really sandblasted for covering it all up and erasing tape.

Geez. this was a boring movie. I lived thru that time and read everything I was only 21 years old. I liked Redford but frankly, the amount of overacting was atrocious.
I get it. The Dems wanted Nixon out.
So they got that. But a secret slush fund? and that is illegal somehow?>

enlighten me.

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It was a different time. Now people expect dirty tricks, spying on other campaigns (there's talk of an investigation into spying on the Trump campaign, as if anyone cares), election fraud, planting fake news stories, and politicians lying like crazy. You won't believe this, but before Reagan got elected, people were wondering if he was morally fit to be President because he'd been divorced. Now we have one in there who was divorced twice, cheated on the girlfriends he was cheating on his wives with, rode "The Lolita Express" with his good buddies Epstein and Bill Clinton (although I'm *sure* just to go sightseeing 🙄), and is currently married to a woman who did porn. What the heck could be shocking anymore? A guy who brings his "pet" sheep into the White House and demands we all call her the First Lady?

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People are forgetting that the coverup had little to do with Watergate. It was to protect a widespread program of activities to undermine political opponents and to influence the election which involved the FBI, the CIA, the IRS, all being run from the Oval Office and using operatives paid from illegal contributions.

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Nixon was a paranoid lunatic who shouldn't be President. That's the story. Some plumbers are supposed to break into the DNC files? That's o-k?

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The OP is way past enlightening.

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How about your Bush, Jr. getting 100,000 killed in his Iraq War? What about your Trump killing off hundreds of thousands ignoring COVID?

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Obstruction of Justice has been happening all the time, not just in the USA. Attorney Generals answer to the governments. If the governments don't allow an investigation, the Attorney Generals cannot indict. This movie really is a nothingburger.

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Look up the term "whataboutism".

It's a BS form of argument.

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What did they do that was so wrong? THEY LIED!!! I'm surprised Bill Clinton never learned from that mistake

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