When Ford pardoned Nixon, he didnβt help the nation heal. He let the cancer take root. #politics
Richard Nixon was a paranoid, malevolent dickhead, but Ford actually did the right thing.
@countZZero No, because it taught the GOP that the trick was not to get caught, never to admit to wrong doing, and if they did, theyβd get off with a pardon. #politics
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πππ. The trial of Richard M. Nixon would have tied up the country for 1-1/2 to 2 years. Watergate had already consumed 2 years of congressional wheel-spinning. Forcing the rat-faced little shit to resign took from Nixon the only thing he ever loved: π·ππππ.