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fightforfreedom

(4,913 posts)
Wed Mar 30, 2022, 09:08 AM Mar 2022

If we use the Watergate investigation as a guide.

The people around Trump should be very, very worried. People like Meadows, Navarro, Rudy, etc. There is a very good chance many of them will eventually be indicted. That's what happened to the people around Nixon.

The toughest decision for Garland will be about Trump. Does he indict a former president? Does he name him as an Un-indicted Co-conspirator? Does he do nothing?

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gab13by13

(21,304 posts)
1. No comparison,
Wed Mar 30, 2022, 09:16 AM
Mar 2022

Watergate empaneled a grand jury, something that Nick Ackerman, Watergate prosecutor, stated just last night, that DOJ should be doing right now. Ackerman said that a grand jury would cut through all of the red tape and tremendously speed up this investigation.

Autumn

(45,056 posts)
3. You can't use Watergate as a guide. There is plenty of open evidence of Trumps crimes and his crew.
Wed Mar 30, 2022, 09:19 AM
Mar 2022

There were some decent Republican back then, there are none, zero now. It seems to me that it has been decided but not announced that one can't indict a President. Former or sitting. Just my opinion.

panader0

(25,816 posts)
4. I agree. "one can't indict a President" "I could shoot a man of Fifth Ave and no one would care."
Wed Mar 30, 2022, 09:29 AM
Mar 2022

It's outrageous. Just like Barr's theory that the POTUS is above committing a crime.
Please DOJ, follow up on the J-6 committee's evidence and bring us justice. And
as far ahead of the mid-terms as possible.

Autumn

(45,056 posts)
5. The fact that there is not a Grand Jury at this time is outrageous. This establishes that there
Wed Mar 30, 2022, 09:38 AM
Mar 2022

are two tiers of justice.

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)
7. Watergate ? The bugs were not in the Whitehouse and the tapes were from a system
Wed Mar 30, 2022, 10:00 AM
Mar 2022

In the Whitehouse thar recorded all of the Presidents (Nixon) conversations.

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