{"id":339695,"date":"2017-12-16T06:42:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T05:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/unlike-nixon-trump-will-not-go-quietly\/"},"modified":"2017-12-16T06:42:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T05:42:58","slug":"unlike-nixon-trump-will-not-go-quietly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/unlike-nixon-trump-will-not-go-quietly\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlike Nixon, Trump Will Not Go Quietly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>On Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Nixon bowed to the inevitability of impeachment and conviction by a Democratic Senate and resigned.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of such an end for Donald Trump has this city drooling. Yet, comparing Russiagate and Watergate, history is not likely to repeat itself.<\/p>\n<p>First, the underlying crime in Watergate, a break-in to wiretap offices of the DNC, had been traced, within 48 hours, to the Committee to Re-Elect the President.<\/p>\n<p>In Russiagate, the underlying crime \u2014 the \u201ccollusion\u201d of Trump\u2019s campaign with the Kremlin to hack into the emails of the DNC \u2014 has, after 18 months of investigating, still not been established.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign manager Paul Manafort has been indicted, but for financial crimes committed long before he enlisted with Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Unlike Nixon, Trump Will Not Go Quietly &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3YGQNrialE\">https:\/\/t.co\/3YGQNrialE<\/a> Patrick J. Buchanan &#8211; Official Website <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7J3aU1fDsI\">pic.twitter.com\/7J3aU1fDsI<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Patrick J. Buchanan (@PatrickBuchanan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickBuchanan\/status\/941468743779192833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gen. Michael Flynn has pled guilty to lying about phone calls he made to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, but only after Trump had been elected and Flynn had been named national security adviser.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn asked Kislyak for help in blocking or postponing a Security Council resolution denouncing Israel, and to tell Vladimir Putin not to go ballistic over President Obama\u2019s expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>This is what security advisers do.<\/p>\n<p>Why Flynn let himself be ensnared in a perjury trap, when he had to know his calls were&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/unlike-nixon-trump-will-not-go-quietly\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Nixon bowed to the inevitability of impeachment and conviction by a Democratic Senate and resigned. The prospect of such an end for Donald Trump has this city drooling. Yet, comparing Russiagate and Watergate, history is not likely to repeat itself. First, the underlying crime in Watergate, a break-in to wiretap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}