I love their point about shamelessness today versus the shame after Watergate. That is the key difference. Well, I'm not so sure some of them were ashamed and some of them weren't. But he knew that he had no future. He didn't have the future. Now Trump can come back and run for it was if Nixon ran for president again right after that would be what it would be like. Yeah. There was appropriate, but there was some what seemed like we're more since some kind of accountability.
From the verdict in Trump’s sexual assault case to the Santos indictment and the Supreme Court saga, scandal is rife in Washington. Today we turn to the OG: Watergate, as examined in the new HBO series, “White House Plumbers.” Writers and creators Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory and director David Mandel discuss how the show compares to their last collab (“Veep”), trace a line between the blind allegiance to Nixon in the 1970s and the “Big Lie” of 2020 and contemplate what a Trump scandals series may look like 50 years from now would be like (think: Timothée Chalamet as Rudy Giuliani).
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