Carl Bernstein: Trump's Behavior Is More 'Egregious' Than Nixon's
Chris Sosa
December 6, 2017 3:24 am
Veteran reporter Carl Bernstein, best known for his journalism during President Richard Nixons Watergate scandal, told CNNs Anderson Cooper that President Donald Trumps authoritarian behavior is more blatant than Nixons abuse of power.
Richard Nixon is a criminal president who abused his authority in secret throughout his presidency and had to leave office because of it, Bernstein explained. Donald Trump, by contrast, is a president of the United States who has claimed authoritarian powers for himself and exercised them not in secret but openly, and now because of that it looks like he may well have obstructed justice, among other possibily illegal acts.
Trumps behavior is arguably worse than Nixons before the former president fired the special prosecutor, an example Trump may choose to follow as the Russia investigation inches further into his inner circle.
The conduct of Donald Trump in office as weve seen it publicly is much more egregious than we publicly saw Nixons conduct certainly up to the time that he fired the special prosecutor in the Saturday Night Massacre, Bernstein said.
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