{"id":23394,"date":"2018-08-13T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23394"},"modified":"2018-08-13T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:03:13","slug":"is-the-current-political-crisis-in-the-united-states-as-bad-as-watergate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23394","title":{"rendered":"Is the current political crisis in the United States as bad as Watergate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Carl Bernstein &#8211; one of the two &#8220;Washington Post&#8221; reporters who broke the Watergate story 44 years ago &#8211; it&#8217;s worse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cObviously there are similarities, not least of which is part of the story is about undermining the electoral process. You\u2019re also dealing with cover-ups in both instances and special prosecutors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is worse than Watergate in the sense that the system worked in Watergate and it\u2019s not apparent yet that the system is working in the current situation. No president has done anything like Trump to characterise the American press and its exercise of the first amendment as the enemy of the people, a phrase associated with the greatest despots of the 20th century.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/aug\/12\/woodward-bernstein-watergate-donald-trump-era\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Carl Bernstein &#8211; one of the two &#8220;Washington Post&#8221; reporters who broke the Watergate story 44 years ago &#8211; it&#8217;s worse: \u201cObviously there are similarities, not least of which is part of the story is about undermining the electoral process. You\u2019re also dealing with cover-ups in both instances and special prosecutors.\u201d \u201cThis is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23411,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23394\/revisions\/23411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}