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To be fair, there is one other but he was pardoned
Yet he had the intelligence to understand he couldnt.
"When the president does it, that means it's not illegal." Richard Nixon, 1977, David Frost interview.
Idk, kinda seems like this is just what would've happened if Nixon had Fox News batting for him.
Almost like their lesson from this was "we need control of everything people hear about news and politics", leading to the creation of Fox News, ClearChannel, etc.
Don’t forget shame. He also had enough shame to resign.
Normalize being actually guilty
instead ofincluding being sentenced as suchNot quite. He was told that there were enough votes against him (including from his own party) that he'd lose impeachment proceedings, and that was the impetus for his resignation.
Id call that shame of not wanting to face the impeachment. Trump on the other hand would have kept the course even if he knew every congressman and senator would vote he was guilty and to be impeached and removed. And if the likes of Romney had bothered to discuss their disgust of his actions there was a small but real chance he would have been convicted.