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Then in September of last year the tapes about coronavirus from Woodward’s new book (remember that?) were also “worse than Watergate.”pic.twitter.com/jR3QyDOh4g
I mean. Cmon. Does anyone even remember the Ukraine scandal? Is there anyone who actually believes that Ukraine was worse than Watergate?pic.twitter.com/qYDxPVG4XT
Now is it possible that, on 10+ different points in the last four years, Trump has done something that’s “worse than Watergate”? Idk. It’s been a weird few years.
But don’t we think it’s FAR more likely that a @CNN employee is simply repeating a line their viewers want to hear?
It wasn’t just Bernstein.
Other folks involved in Watergate also did this, including former prosecutor Nick Akerman(@nickakerman), who called @DonaldJTrumpJr’s emails “treason” & a “smoking cannon” back in 2017 (and plenty since - apparently this line gets you booked by MSNBC).pic.twitter.com/8Td652uo2y
There appears to be a whole cottage industry around being a person tied to Watergate saying that something is “worse than Watergate.” Here’s Nixon’s lawyer John Dean taking his stab at it.pic.twitter.com/0sUuBYbl0o
Apparently this is also part of @JillWineBanks’s schtick.pic.twitter.com/MIahWDTd9j
And I’m shocked - SHOCKED - to know that plenty of Dems have repeated these claims, dating back to **before Trump got elected**pic.twitter.com/GmXSH5xeb5
I couldn’t help but add @JRubinBlogger to this thread because she also claimed that Benghazi was worse than Watergate back when she was a Republican.
Now apparently she saves that honorific for whatever it is Trump was doing in September and October of 2019.pic.twitter.com/e2PlxQui7K
Plenty of our usual blue check suspects do this, too.
@joelockhart makes my job easy by just listing everything that’s worse than Watergate out in two tweets, including the Russian collusion conspiracy theory and the “good people on both sides” lie.pic.twitter.com/hU7NnIWdIW
Anyway. I hope you’re getting the picture. So, was Trump’s call re:GA really bad? I suppose the jury’s still out. I suggested it might be & y’all got real mad. But cmon. Watergate bad? Give me a break. And if you’re taking Bernstein’s word for it, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.pic.twitter.com/sQQ90PkyRD
Didn’t realize @carlbernstein was on Twitter, otherwise would’ve tagged him, as is my custom
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