Tag: Richard Nixon
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US Supreme Court to hear Donald Trump tax returns cases next year
Jay Sekulow, Trump's personal attorney, said in a statement, "We are pleased that the Supreme Court granted reviews of the president three pending cases".
December 14, 2019 -
Towards Impeachment?
No Republicans broke ranks to vote in favour of the measure, while two Democrats joined what they call the Republican stonewall.
November 4, 2019 -
Dual showmanship
The element of audacity and implications of the recent Trump-Kim summit in Singapore can only be equated with the Nixon-Mao moment of 1972. While the former sought to allay portents of a very real nuclear holocaust, the latter had successfully thawed the Cold War freeze in a sizeable part of the Communist bloc. In both …
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July 5, 2018 -
Clinton compares Trump to Nixon in alma mater speech
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has compared US President Donald Trump's "imperiled presidency" to that of Richard Nixon's in a fiery commencement speech at her alma mater Wellesley College. "We were furious about the past presidential election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment after firing the …
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May 27, 2017 -
A witch-hunt against Trump?
Rarely the crime; invariably the cover-up. So it has been since long before Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate break in. And so it is today. President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, Mike Flynn, lasted just 24 days before resigning over a conversation he had denied. Now, Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, stands accused of …
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March 9, 2017