President Ford thought he was ending “America’s long national nightmare” by letting Tricky Dick off the hook. But he planted the seed for our current national nightmare, writes Eleanor Clift.
without much of a platform beyond, “I’m the first president to be indicted in a partisan witch hunt, the 2020 election was stolen from me by the Democrats—and only I can fix it!”
If Kennedy saw the pardon in a different light, that was enough for me. And if we never had another president who secretly or openly defied the rule of law, we could leave it there.We could have been spared all the theater surrounding Trump today if Ford had let the justice system work instead of capitulating to pressure from Nixon allies...Now I’m back to where I was originally. Gerald Ford was wrong. No president should be above the law.
Ford testified before Congress in October 1974 to explain the pardon, telling the House Judiciary committee that an indictment followed by a trial and potential conviction would consume the country’s attention, that it was time to close the Watergate chapter. about his off-the-record interviews with Ford over 32 years, told The Daily Beast. “Ford would still believe the pardon was the right thing for the country at the time.
As it was, Nixon spent the last 20 years of his life contending he’d been railroaded from office, and many analysts are convinced that if Fox News and the right-wing media industry existed in 1974, Nixon could have ridden out the charges the way Trump is gearing up to do today.Tom Middlemiss/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images
Meanwhile, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was on the defensive for bringing allegedly insignificant and outdated charges against Trump about hush money paid to silence a building doorman, a Playboy model, and an adult film star to keep voters from knowing damaging information that might have affected the outcome of the 2016 election.
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