Richard Nixon

On Friday morning, President Donald Trump spoke with Fox & Friends in a nearly hour-long telephone conversation. As part of that discussion, the president revealed that he learned a lot from former President Richard Nixon, who ended up resigning the presidency in August of 1974 over the Watergate break-in. After a question about the Department […]

With self-described Democratic Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont taking another major step toward securing the Democratic 2020 presidential nomination Saturday — with a decisive win in the Nevada caucus vote — new questions have arisen about whether Sanders is capable of defeating Donald Trump in the November general election. Now, a leading election forecaster […]

The impeachment trial of Donald Trump is set to open on Thursday at noon, though the remainder of this week will likely be devoted to getting formalities and procedural requirements out of the way. The actual trial proceedings will get underway next week, following the holiday weekend. But the outcome of the trial already appears […]

In a sweeping rollback of environmental regulations that have been in place for 50 years, Donald Trump on Friday announced new rules that would severely curtail the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act. But in making the announcement, the president claimed that he was in fact, an “environmentalist,” and said that he’s “a big believer in […]

In an interview with CBS broadcast on Sunday, former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said that President Donald Trump needs to be impeached because he poses a “fundamental threat” to the Constitution, reports The Hill. Katyal, who served in the Obama administration, argued that evidence suggests Trump committed at least three impeachable offenses. According to […]

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar held nothing back as she offered her opinion on the seriousness of the impeachment inquiry involving President Donald Trump‘s dealings with the Ukrainian president, comparing the situation to former President Richard Nixon’s scandal by calling it a “global Watergate.” According to Politico, the 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful spoke with MSNBC’s Chuck […]

A Democrat who was involved in the impeachment proceedings against former President Richard Nixon, who resigned from office amid a likely impeachment, and President Bill Clinton has charged that the accusations against President Donald Trump‘s involving the Ukrainian government are more serious than those of Nixon. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who made the comments Sunday to […]

In an interview with CNN broadcast on Saturday, former White House Counsel John Dean — who served President Richard Nixon — discussed South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham’s defense of President Donald Trump. Per Raw Story, Graham recently argued that there is no concrete evidence against Trump, suggesting that the House Democrats’ case for impeachment is […]

In an interview with CNN broadcast on Sunday, former White House Counsel John Dean — who served President Richard Nixon — discussed the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump, reports Raw Story. According to the lawyer, the Republican Party is “denying reality” of what is actually going on by defending Trump. Dean said that “in […]

Harvard Law School professor John Coates said on Friday that President Donald Trump committed an impeachable offense during former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch’s testimony before Congress, reports Newsweek. “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad,” Trump tweeted during the hearing, proceeding to question the ambassador’s career and credentials. “She started off in Somalia, how […]

In an interview with CNN broadcast on Saturday, former President Richard Nixon’s White House Counsel John Dean weighed in on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, reports The Washington Examiner. Dean argued that Democrats waited too long to launch the impeachment investigation, suggesting that Trump could have been impeached long ago. “I think this […]

Donald Trump‘s phone call with Russian president Volodymyr Zelensky sparked an impeachment probe into him that continues to move forward. As The Inquisitr reported, a recent NBC News/SurveyMonkey survey poll revealed that the majority of both Democrat and independent voters support Trump’s impeachment. During an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, former Democratic presidential nominee John […]

On the morning of June 17, 1972, Frank Wills — who was then a 24-year-old security guard at the Watergate hotel and office complex in Washington D.C. — made a curious discovery. He noticed a piece of duct tape that had been placed over a latch on a basement door in the complex, preventing the […]

On the day of the Mueller Report release, it was announced that the key figure in another major presidential scandal had passed away – in 2017. James McCord, who was one of five men arrested in the infamous Watergate break-in on June 17, 1972 – whose arrest helped set into motion the scandal that led […]

Richard Nixon’s White House counsel John Dean couldn’t resist the urge to mock Donald Trump after the president claimed that he had not read the Mueller report. On Saturday, Trump tweeted that he had not yet seen the highly controversial special counsel report, which Democratic lawmakers want to see the light of day. “I have […]

Thursday morning brought some horrible news from the celebrity world as veteran actor Luke Perry was revealed to have suffered a massive stroke. Perry was hospitalized on Wednesday after suffering the stroke, and he was still under observation as of early this afternoon. However, he isn’t the first celebrity to have to deal with such […]

The organization that safeguards the legacy of President Richard M. Nixon, while also administering his presidential library, has released a statement distancing Nixon from Roger Stone, the former Trump adviser who was indicted on seven counts Friday morning. This led to many guffaws, as the office of the only U.S. president to resign from office […]

Roger Stone, the former adviser to President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was indicted Friday on seven counts that included obstruction, witness tampering, and false statements, the Inquisitr reported. The indictment, which rose out of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, led to a pre-dawn raid on Stone’s Florida home Friday. The 66-year-old Stone has been a […]

In an interview with the Hill, Michael Cohen’s former attorney, Lanny Davis, compared Donald Trump to Richard Nixon, claiming that Nixon at least understood and “respected” the United States Constitution. “Nixon respected the Constitution. I don’t think this man even understands the Constitution,” he said. “He did not defy the court order to turn over […]

File this one under the truth is stranger than fiction category because Snopes has confirmed that Donald Trump’s friend and political consultant Roger Stone indeed has a large Richard Nixon tattoo squarely on his back. When a photograph first surfaced of the shirtless 68-year-old Stone showing off his Nixon tattoo, most people assumed it must […]

With Bob Woodward’s new book Fear: Trump in the White House now on store shelves everywhere, the reporting technique that Woodward and Carl Bernstein mastered during the Watergate scandal has been used to give readers a certain portrait of Donald Trump. The tell-all has revealed what many are calling a frightening lack of empathy and […]

A recently released Marist College poll suggests that President Donald Trump’s disapproval rating is just as bad as that of Richard Nixon right before he resigned the presidency in 1974. According to the poll, which covers data gathered in July, only 20 percent of Americans rated Trump’s performance as excellent, with 20 percent rating it […]

Every state counts in a presidential election, so today looks like it might be a good day for President Trump to release his tax returns. That’s because lawmakers in Rhode Island passed a bill this week that would require anyone running for president to file tax information going back five years if they want to […]

Donald Trump “probably” has the power to pardon himself, his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Sunday morning. But he likely won’t. As Huffington Post reports, Giuliani made the rounds of the Sunday-morning news roundtable shows, including NBC’s Meet the Press and ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos, the former New York City mayor spoke of the […]

Sexual assault allegations against President Donald Trump are nothing new. In truth, the allegations made against Trump by former Trump Tower employee Rachel Crooks are not new either. Crooks alleges that she was “forcibly kissed” by Trump when she worked at Trump Tower back in 2006, something that President Trump strongly denies. It would also […]

There can be few people on planet earth who are not aware of the scandal surrounding President Donald Trump and his presidential campaign teams alleged collusion with Russia. There can be little doubt that yesterday’s events in Washington sent shockwaves through the Trump White House. As reported earlier by the Inquisitr, the events, dubbed “indictment […]

As reports emerged that Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s links with Russia was set to make its first arrests, President Donald Trump launched a Twitter tirade that was extraordinary, even by his own standards. The world has become used to Trump sounding off on the social media platform, but this time around Trump’s […]

Twitter suspended the account of longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone today following a series of obscene tweets aimed at CNN anchors and commentators that began Friday night. CNN’s exclusive report, later confirmed by other media sources, that FBI special counsel Robert Mueller had secured a sealed indictment in the investigation into Russia’s influence on […]

Gallup tracks how many people in the U.S. approve or disapprove of a president’s job performance on a daily basis, and Donald Trump is setting new records. Unfortunately, these aren’t likely to be the kinds of records this president wants to be setting. Newsweek called him the “least popular president ever” and reported Friday’s Gallup […]

According to a new poll by Monmouth University Polling Institute, support to impeach Trump is higher than the anti-Nixon rhetoric at the beginning of the Watergate scandal. The poll indicated that fully 41 percent of Americans want to see Congress impeach Donald Trump and remove the unlikely POTUS from office. That number dwarfs the percentage […]

President Donald Trump is allegedly considering firing special council, Robert Mueller, who is leading an ongoing independent investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. Sources inside the White House allege that Trump may be planning to intimidate Mueller into ensuring that the investigation turns in Trump’s favor. However, according to a report in […]

During the 2016 presidential election, after the F.B.I. announced that it had found damning emails pertinent to the investigation of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump praised former director James Comey for heroic and excellent work. “I think it’s the biggest story since Watergate.” Little did Trump know that a few months later he […]

On October 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon put the Saturday Night Massacre into motion with the firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. It followed the resignation of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, who refused to carry out the firing themselves. Less than a year later, the president himself stepped […]

The same college professor who stunningly predicted Donald Trump’s presidential rise now sees him becoming just the third president in history to undergo impeachment proceedings. American University scholar Allan Lichtman, who has also accurately predicted the results of every presidential election since 1982, details the new president’s projected shortcomings in a new novel. The longtime […]

We are 46-days into Donald Trump’s presidency. The first 100-days of a presidency are often referred to as a honeymoon period, but President Trump’s honeymoon is turning into the holiday from hell. Just weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump has had Executive Orders overturned by the courts. He has been condemned for conducting affairs of […]

Donald Trump’s growing feud with the media has hit a fever-pitch, with the newly elected Republican president announcing he plans to become the first commander-in-chief in nearly four decades to skip out on the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. CNN reports Trump will be the first sitting president since a still recovering Ronald Reagan missed […]

John Dean, who was at one time the former counsel for President Richard Nixon, believes that President Donald Trump is engaging in a cover-up of the Russia scandal which is similar to Watergate. In a Twitter post yesterday, Dean acknowledged that he has plenty of experience when it comes to cover-ups and he is of […]

We are just one-month into Donald Trump’s presidency, and no one would suggest that Trump’s first month in office has been smooth. The 45th president of the United States took office against a background of the most controversial presidential election in recent history. President Trump has attracted a huge amount of criticism over several executive […]

Richard Nixon. Donald Trump. Two of the most controversial and belligerent presidents in recent memory. One was brought down by journalistic work, and the other seems intent on making sure that doesn’t happen to him. At this point in time, after a 16-month campaign, three months as President-elect, and 29 days as President Trump, it […]

Dan Rather has been working as a journalist since 1950 and has seen many different political events unfold, and in his opinion Donald Trump’s scandal with Russia may very well end up rivaling Richard Nixon’s Watergate. Dan Rather drew the comparison between President Trump and President Nixon on a Facebook post, according to Attn Politics. […]

President Donald Trump has officially been in office now for almost a month, but the main discussion has been about removing him. Numerous petitions are going around online, and even in person, to get signatures so that the American people can have enough attention brought to their demands. As the movements continue to gain steam […]

Donald Trump specializes in offending just about everyone in one way or another, yet despite his narcissistic, brash, and sexist actions, he is still not the worst POTUS ever. Sadly, there are a fair number of presidential candidates who rival our current president for unpopular or unethical actions. Some of these presidents, while popular or […]

It’s only been a week since Donald Trump officially took his seat at 45th President of the United States. But the results of a new national poll suggest as early as now that Trump may become the “worst president since Richard Nixon,” while many are also in favor of Trump getting impeached early on in […]

President Jimmy Carter once owned a Georgia peanut farm that came to symbolize him during the presidential race where he defeated Republican incumbent Gerald Ford, who had taken over for the disgraced Richard Nixon. Even today, his former vocation is sometimes used to paint him in a negative light. Yet, the peanut farm for which […]

Will President Obama pardon Hillary Clinton of all the various criminal acts she has been accused of during the 2016 election? Can the White House pardon Hillary before an indictment? If Obama takes no action, is Hillary Clinton guilty of treason as some claim? If so, will Donald Trump prosecute Hillary and order the FBI […]

In the United States, we are taught, from a young age, that lies are not acceptable. We even have folklore, like the story of George Washington and the cherry tree, to illustrate the importance of the truth. Of course, that story is likely fabricated, but unlike the rumors about today’s politicians, it was not told […]

Former president Richard Nixon and the War on Drugs are possibly two of the least loved facets of 20th century American history, and according to a former adviser, a link between the two might make them even more unpopular. For years, many have suspected that the Nixon administration’s “dirty tricks” against its rivals exposed in […]

Elvis & Nixon from Amazon Studios dropped a surprise trailer on unsuspecting movie audiences yesterday in much the same way that the “King of Rock ‘n Roll” showed up on the White House lawn to surprise President Richard Nixon 45 years ago. The film stars Michael Shannon as the King and Kevin Spacey as Nixon, […]

As Republicans swept back into control of Congress in the midterm elections last week, the prospect of a return to the Republican style of governing produced elation among conservatives, and a sense of grave concern in most everyone else. But of course, history has seen long periods of Republican rule and Democratic dominance, and the […]

It was one of the most polarizing scenes in American history. It was time for change. Richard Milhaus Nixon, the 37th President Of The United States, officially resigned from that office 40 years ago today in the midst of the Watergate scandal. According to the Christian Science Monitor, the days leading up to the resignation […]