[2017]
Critics have been quick to compare the controversy surrounding the White House and Russia to the Watergate scandal that forced President Richard Nixon to resign. But the Watergate drama took longer to unfold—more than two years—than many people may remember. Here’s a quick refresher of the events that led to Nixon’s resignation.

  • Asafum@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Watergate is also why we have fox news now…

    Roger Ailes said essentially “If we only had a friendly media Nixon would never have had to resign.” Then he joined Murdock in creating fox news and they’ve since proven him correct. Make a Reich wing propaganda network and you can keep the voters in check, protecting them from reality.