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Turns put he is a crook

>>iancmc+(OP)
They all are.

Edit: Please point out even a single Politician that wasn’t a crook. I’ll wait.

>>iancmc+(OP)
He is, but he is also a convenient scapegoat here.

The US was running up debts with post-WWII behavior for quite a while, especially with wars in Korea and Vietnam. This is what Charles de Gaulle was talking about when he referred to the US' "exorbitant privilege" in 1965 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege) before repatriating France's gold. Multiple presidents preceeded Nixon and continued promoting expansionist policy and meddling in foreign countries with war (that the US could not afford if not for our exorbitant privilege), mostly to compete with or try asserting dominance over USSR.

>>iancmc+(OP)
Nixon made them come clean, they had been printing money they didn’t have gold for long before he came along. After watching the way the establishment and deep state have treated Trump I have become very suspicious about all circumstances surrounding Nixon. I sometimes wonder if (after JFK) they decided to hone their assassination craft to not require bullets.