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The Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt is All Wrong About Impeachment

by Martin Longman June 4, 2019January 9, 2022

It’s not true that the people knew everything about Trump in 2016 and voted for him anyway.

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How Many Crimes Can a President Commit?

by Martin Longman February 18, 2019January 9, 2022

Not every crime is an impeachable offense and not every impeachable offense is a crime.

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Donald Trump Should Follow Spiro Agnew’s Example

by Martin Longman December 17, 2018January 9, 2022

Faced with growing criminal liability, Agnew cut a deal in return for leaving office, and the same solution should appeal to Donald Trump.

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Trump Will Be Brought Down By His Own People

by Martin Longman December 6, 2018January 9, 2022

Nixon wasn’t undone by Woodward and Bernstein, but by the testimony of his own advisers and staff.

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The Watergate Road Map and Trump’s Future

by Martin Longman November 20, 2018January 9, 2022

Many of the crimes a grand jury believed Nixon had committed have already been committed by Trump.

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Isn’t It Obvious Kelly and Mattis Wrote the NYT Op-Ed?

by D.R. Tucker September 8, 2018January 9, 2022

There have been actual mysteries in this country. What happened to the missing 18½ minutes on the Nixon tapes? Was there an actual “October surprise” in the 1980 presidential election? Why did anyone ever take George W. Bush seriously? This “mystery” is not one of them. To quote the renowned American philosopher Nasir Jones, it […]