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    Trump and his lawyers keep ghosts of Nixon and Watergate alive and haunting

    When it mattered most, Nixon and his crew found that people who might have been political allies in the past were not especially sympathetic to his case.
    by Ron Elving Sep 25, 2022 5 minutes

    The building drama over documents that left the White House with President Trump provides fresh proof that the ghosts of old scandals never die – or at least not in Washington.

    Watergate happened half a century ago, but its name and spirit are still with us, thanks in large measure to former President Donald Trump. He has not been charged and may never be charged, but memories of President Richard Nixon have been revived repeatedly by two impeachment proceedings and countless other scrapes and potential scandals. Trump has found himself at odds with Congress, federal courts and legal authorities in at least two states.

    And yet it is the document dispute, which has been public since the FBI searched and seized documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Aug.

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