30 days later: “I, Gerald R. Ford...grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon.”
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As will Pence.
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and then he pardoned him. proving those words worthless.
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he pardoned nixon to save the country from long, divisive, expensive process, which would have caused schism across the country, perhaps never to be healed. nixon staff were imprisoned, disbarred, president disbarred and humiliated for eternity. it was over. o v e r.
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But he didn't save the country at all. He paved the way for our current state of disrepair. He sent a message to the
@GOP that they are allowed to do whatever they want and IF they are caught, someone will take care make sure there are no consequences.
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& less than a month later he pardoned Nixon, saying Watergate had been a tragedy for Nixon & that everyone had played a role in it. & justified that unconditional pardon as healing division while he refused to grant the same unconditional pardon to Vietnam draft resisters. 1/
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the elite D.C. consensus on the pardon needs to be reexamined. Arguably it led to elites believing that a different set of rules applies to them. Imagine if Nixon had been tried & convicted. What a different political culture re: wrongdoing we'd have now. 2/2
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When the Constitution says
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I blame FORD for all of this now. Every.Single.Member. of Nixon's administration should have been investigated and prosecuted. Then we would NOT have had creatures like Cheney slinking around DC with their 'Unitary Executive" and "Imperial Presidency" virus infecting Washington
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Those cancerous ideas SHOULD have died the day Nixon resigned, but because Ford let the carriers off the hook, they were able to make a comeback, first with Cheney and all of HIS minions, which lead to the grotesque exaggeration of every evil Nixon policy, come to life.
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And then he pardoned him.
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Yeah. Too bad his pardon of Nixon put us on the path of no consequences for law-breaking in the Oval Office.
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He shouldn't have pardoned Nixon though. I was a child at the time and I was DEVASTATED by that pardon. It was a clear message that there are rules for some that don't apply to others. I've never forgotten that day.
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This isn't an issue for the
#GOP. On a recent walk, a large black pickup passed by, adorned w/ US & homemade Trump flags atop sapling poles, doors open, men standing in doorways holding guns pointed upward, whooping & hollering, making themselves known. I fear social unrest.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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...he said one month before fully pardoning the guy who resigned for getting caught breaking the law.
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