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Watergate scandal: How a single piece of tape brought down the US President

One botched break-in 50 years ago today would end up changing US history and American politics forever as it set of a series of events that brought down then president Richard Nixon

Daily Mirror

Woodward and Bernstein didn't bring down a president in Watergate – but the myth that they did lives on

In their dogged reporting of the Watergate scandal, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the crimes that forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency in August 1974.

The Conversation

Barry Sussman: Washington Post editor who oversaw Watergate reporting

Although he never received as much fame as Woodward and Bernstein, Sussman played in a key role in the greatest scoop of all time

The Independent UK

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Ghost of Watergate: Is Jan. 6 different?

Let's hope the Jan. 6 committee can lay out the story in such stark terms

Salon

Trump’s bid to cling to power ‘beyond Nixon’s imagination’, Watergate duo say

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein write in new book foreword that bid to overturn election made Trump ‘our first seditious president’

The Guardian - US

‘They called her crazy’: Watergate whistleblower finally gets her due

Martha Mitchell, wife of Nixon’s attorney general who ordered the break-in at the scandal’s heart, was drugged and kidnapped

The Guardian - US

Will Bunch: The Supreme Court has a giant legitimacy crisis, which means so does America

Earlier this month, a speech warning about the dangers of politicizing the U.S. Supreme Court was delivered in Utah by an authoritative, insider source, who cautioned that "[a]t some point the institution is going to be compromised." He voiced his growing concern that eventually we could "chip away at the…

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Trump takes the Watergate path to doom

Trump echoes Richard Nixon's silence — let's hope history repeats itself

Salon

Trump Jan. 6 phone logs have 7-hour gap

Trump's gap makes Nixon's infamous 18 minutes "look like nothing in comparison," says law professor Laurence Tribe

Salon

Records show long gap in Trump phone logs as January 6 violence unfolded

Panel reportedly investigating ‘possible coverup’ of records, with unexplained gap of seven hours as Capitol insurrection took place

The Guardian - US

Biden and allies vow to keep up Russia punishment for ‘brutal attacks in Ukraine’ – as it happened

US and European leaders pledge assistance for people inside Ukraine and for those fleeing country

The Guardian - US

Republican calls out Ginni Thomas' texts

Thomas' texts called for 2020 presidential election results to be overturned

Salon

Ginni Thomas' shocking QAnon texts

Wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pushed then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to overturn 2020

Salon

Editorial: DeSantis sacrifices Floridians for his personal ambition

As author Bob Woodward tells the story, the new virus in China didn’t yet have a name in early 2020, but Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Robert O’Brien, warned him of “the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency.” The warning proved accurate.

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Carl Bernstein: ‘Our democracy, before Trump, had ceased to be working well’

The acclaimed journalist talks about life before Watergate, as portrayed in his new book Chasing History, and life after Trump

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