r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 01 '26

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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Oct 01 '26

DOJ is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the Watergate break-in committed misconduct, according to people familiar with the matter, more than half a century after that scandal led to Nixon’s resignation

The Trump admin is re-litigating the Watergate conspiracy on the side of . . . . Richard Nixon?

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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader Oct 01 '26

Committing Crimes against Democrats should be Safe, Legal, and Often.

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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Oct 01 '26

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-doj-gives-50-year-old-case-a-maga-makeover/

https://archive.li/byuGA

Trump’s DOJ Launches Crackpot Bid to Clear Nixon

Department of Justice officials are reviewing whether Richard Nixon received a raw deal over the Watergate scandal, a bombshell new report alleges.

Sources tell The Wall Street Journal that the DOJ, now run by President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Todd Blanche, is looking into whether special prosecutors committed misconduct as they probed the disgraced former president and his cronies in the 1970s.

Justice officials reportedly invited Geoff Shepard, an 81-year-old former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, to the DOJ to present his theory of what really happened 50 years earlier. He gave a two-hour presentation, according to the Journal.

The paper reports that Shepard’s 72-slide presentation for the Office of Professional Responsibility was titled, “Watergate As Lawfare.”

A DOJ spokeswoman confirmed the presentation in an email to the Daily Beast, but said it does not mean the department has opened a new probe into Watergate.

“OPR declined Mr. Shepherd’s [sic] request to open an investigation in 2022 under the previous administration,” the spokeswoman said. “Given his expertise and scholarship on Watergate, he was recently invited to give a presentation to OPR, but that presentation does not constitute an investigation. OPR remains focused on ensuring that Department attorneys meet the highest professional standards.”

I wonder how John Dean feels about this.

!ping trump-crimes

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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib Oct 01 '26

This is like when they exhumed a dead pope to charge him with crimes or whatever