When Ford pardoned Nixon, he didn’t 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, they’d get off with a pardon. #politics
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@countZZero There might be a case for pardoning him after he was indicted and convicted so that it was clear that nobody was above the law, but this Trump immunity nonsense is all because we didn’t set a clear precedent. #politics