Woodward and Bernstein: Nixon, Trump defined two of the most damaging, troubling eras in American history

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Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal a half-century ago, wrote in The Washington Post on Sunday that former President Trump and the host of loyalists who falsely claimed his election defeat was fraudulent were a deception that “exceeded even Nixon’s imagination.”

 

“As reporters, we had studied Nixon and written about him for nearly half a century, during which we believed with great conviction that never again would America have a president who would trample the national interest and undermine democracy through the audacious pursuit of personal and political self-interest,” Woodward and Bernstein wrote.

 

“And then along came Trump,” they wrote.

 

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