Woodward and Bernstein: Best Two Reporters Ever With More Timely Public Enlightenment

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

(On the money ref: Trump's predicament)

Great story from two very trustworthy and excellent journalists vis-à-vis Donald J. Trump and his legacy from Business Insider with this headline (formatted to fit the blog):

“Woodward and Bernstein say Trump's efforts to overturn the election was a deception that exceeded even Nixon's imagination”

·  They uncovered the Watergate scandal during the Nixon era.

·  They say Trump was more corrupt than Nixon.

·  They called Trump the first seditious U.S. president.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein said former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election was something not even former President Richard Nixon would have imagined.

In an op-ed in The Washington Post, the two reporters known for uncovering the Watergate scandal said they thought Nixon defined corruption until they saw Trump's presidency.

In 1972, the Nixon administration coordinated a break-in at the Democratic National Committee's headquarters. The administration attempted to cover up its involvement until Nixon was forced to resign in 1974.

Woodward and Bernstein said the news media, the Senate Watergate Committee, special prosecutors, a House impeachment investigation, and the Supreme Court exposed Nixon's conduct, a contrast to Trump's attempt to prevent the peaceful transition of power.

They wrote: “These instruments of American democracy finally stopped Nixon dead in his tracks, forcing the only resignation of a president in American history.”

As for Trump, Woodward and Bernstein said his “diabolical instincts exploited a weakness in the law” (referring to the 1887 Electoral Count Act here from Cornell Law).

In the weeks leading up to the certification, Trump and his allies continued to claim that he lost the election because it was rigged, even waging lawsuits in several key states.

They continued: “In a deception that exceeded even Nixon's imagination, Trump and a group of lawyers, loyalists, and White House aides devised a strategy to bombard the country with false assertions that the 2020 election was rigged and that Trump had really won. We watched in utter dismay as Trump persistently claimed that he was really the winner. Trump said in a in a speech on January 6 at the Ellipse. “We won. We won in a landslide. This was a landslide.” 

Then Trump publicly and relentlessly pressured Pence to make him the victor on January 6. 

Trump supporters then on January 6, 2021 stormed the Capitol. 

Woodward and Bernstein concluded: “Trump's actions were clearly sedition — conduct, speech, or organizing that incites people to rebel against the governing authority of the state, thus, Trump became the first seditious president in our history.”

Insider reached out to Trump's representative for comment.

My 2 Cents: Again great reporting by two of the best reporters ever.

Now, the focus shifts to the DOJ. It is up to AG Merrick Garland to move quickly after he and the nation watch the House select committee public hearing starting on June 9.

At the end of that public informative display of the facts and proof of Trump’s crimes, DOJ must move quickly to charge, indict, prosecute, try, convict, and sentence Trump and his cohorts to very long prison terms – that would be justice and proof that no one in America is above the law. Not even a disgraced former President.

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