Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Rupert Murdoch's New York Post publishes scathing Trump critique" video.

  1. Allowing Trump to run for election in 2024, would've been like allowing Nixon to run for election again in 1976.
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  2.  @larryk1865  The party can't prevent him from running for office, but the Constitution sure can. The relevant constitutional provision is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, enacted in the aftermath of the Civil War. The provision bars a person from holding any office “under the United States” if the person has sworn an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the government or “given aid to the enemies” of the U.S.
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  3. On Aug. 7, 1974, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., House Minority Leader John Rhodes, R-Ariz., and Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, R-Pa., made it clear to Nixon that he faced all-but-certain impeachment, conviction, and removal from office in connection with the Watergate scandal... Nixon announced his resignation the next day, which would be effective at noon on Aug 9, 1974. In his 2006 book "Conservatives Without Conscience," former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean wrote that the Capitol Hill trio "traveled to the White House to tell Nixon it was time to resign." In his 1988 autobiography, Goldwater wrote that after hearing their grim assessment, Nixon "knew beyond any doubt, that one way or another, his presidency was finished." This was back when the Republican party still had at least a modicum of dignity, decency, integrity, and a sense of right and wrong. Those days are long gone. Allowing Trump to run for election in 2024, would've been like allowing Nixon to run for election again in 1976.
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  4.  @alysononoahu8702  Everyone is not allowed.The relevant constitutional provision is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, enacted in the aftermath of the Civil War. The provision bars a person from holding any office “under the United States” if the person has sworn an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the government or “given aid to the enemies” of the U.S.
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  5.  @sueu6263  That's an understatement. As White House counsel under President Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1973, John Dean was a key figure in the Watergate saga—participating in, and then helping to expose, the most iconic political scandal in modern U.S. history. Dean gave and interview after Trump was elected in 2016. “The American presidency has never been at the whims of an authoritarian personality like Donald Trump. He is going to test our democracy as it has never been tested.” He was not only convinced that Trump will be worse than Nixon in virtually every way—he thought Trump would probably get away with it. “I don’t think Richard Nixon even comes close to the level of corruption we already know about Trump.” In Trump, Dean says he has observed many of his former boss’s most dangerous traits—obsessive vengefulness, reflexive dishonesty, all-consuming ambition—but none of Nixon’s redeeming qualities. “I used to have one-on-one conversations with Nixon where I’d see him checking his more authoritarian tendencies,” Dean recalled. “He’d say, ‘This is something I can’t say out loud...’ or, ‘That is something the president can’t do.’” To Dean, these moments suggested a functioning sense of shame in Nixon, something he was forced to wrestle with in his quest for power. Trump, by contrast, appears to Dean, unmolested by any such struggle. The Atlantic, January 17, 2017
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  6.  @altrusianwolfdog2564  That's what every Nazi says.
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