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Intelligence agencies need to withhold vital information from Trump. It's obvious he can't be trusted with it.
And Trump had the nerve to talk about Hilliary's handling of classified information on her email server. Trump directly revealed classified information to the Russians. The irony is beyond belief.
As an adult during the Watergate years, I am competent to answer that.
Yes, although the term 'fake news' was not used. After all, there was no internet. All you had was newspapers, radio and the three major networks.
However, you did have people that were ready to proclaim that the Watergate break-in was not important. That the President did not order the break-in (which is true), and that only Nixon's enemies (of which Mr. Nixon literally kept a list), were concerned about such a trivial event.
During the 1972 election I was but 17, so too young to vote. However, I was for Mr. Nixon (since he was going to get us out of Vietnam, "Peace with Honor"). Since I would turn 18 in 1973, I also liked the thought of getting rid of the draft (my number in the last lottery was something like 150).
One reason I kept supporting Mr. Nixon as the Watergate investigation unfolded was my youth: once a person's mindset is that they are 'for' somebody, it can take a lot to get them to change their mind about said person. As I grew older, I jettisoned such a mindset (which is on ample display herein).
Secondly, I was persuaded by the radio commentator, Paul Harvey. As I look back now, I can see that Mr. Harvey kept up his support for Mr. Nixon perhaps too long. I think only with the Saturday Night Massacre in October 1973 did Mr. Harvey begin to temper his enthusiasm for Mr. Nixon. Once the tapes became public (and even then heavily redacted), even Mr. Harvey realized that he had hitched his wagon to a falling star; being impressionable, I also realized that Mr. Nixon must go.
If I were 61 (as I am now) in 1973, I probably would have turned against Mr. Nixon much earlier.
Anyway, Nixon had his supporters virtually up to his resignation in August 1974. They decried all new information as being without foundation, which we now refer to, in part, as fake news.
Good luck with that.
The way things are going, Trump isn't even going to make to 2020.
Ken
You further reveal your lack of knowledge regarding how difficult it is to gather enough support to impeach the President.
And once those big tax cuts arrive, its a cake walk to 8 years of Trump.
And Trump had the nerve to talk about Hilliary's handling of classified information on her email server. Trump directly revealed classified information to the Russians. The irony is beyond belief.
I'm not talking about Trump supporters, I'm talking about Independents.
Very easy to sway independents to Trump now, because the Democrat mainstream media have made it impossible for most people to go blue.
Also makes it difficult for people to answer polls, because pollsters represent the media and I suspect more people ignore pollsters now than ever before.
So not only are the Dems losing, they are losing unable to measure how much they are losing.
You further reveal your lack of knowledge regarding how difficult it is to gather enough support to impeach the President.
And once those big tax cuts arrive, its a cake walk to 8 years of Trump.
I don't think he'll be impeached...but I also don't think he'll run in 2020.
The damage to his brand is just to severe. Those swing voters that put him over the top in 2016...not going to be there for him a second time.
BTW..I'm Independent...and so are many i know..all of us used to be Republican..guess what changed our mind??
The same as 2016, it was very easy to say you were a Clinton supporter, but suicide to say you were a Trump supporter.
Once he won, they came out of the woodwork admitting they supported him. Now they are saying they regret voting for him or want him out of office.
You could be absolutely right, however from what I have heard among my Trump supporting friends and Independents they wouldn't vote for him again.
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