Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down
Among his revelations is the below. If true, these are serious historical concerns.
I don’t know which is the more shocking: that Watergate judges were getting together in secret with prosecutors to affect the outcome of the trial – or that the lead prosecutor was memorializing their agreements in his confidential files.
An aging judge about to step down. Aggressive prosecutors friendly with the judge. A disgraced president. A nation that had already made up its mind. The Watergate trials were a legal mess—and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, former Nixon staffer Geoff Shepard has a convincing case that the wrongdoing of these history-making trials was actually a bigger scandal than the Watergate scandal itself.
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