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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 10:20 AM Jan 2019

2019 will be the worst year of Donald Trump's life [View all]

Some presidents have really bad years.

For Nixon, it was 1974 — the Watergate year, which ended with his resignation. For Clinton, it was 1998 — the Monica year, which culminated with an impeachment trial in the Senate in 1999. He won that vote easily and came out more popular than before.

It’s a good guess that Donald Trump’s really bad year will be 2019. And it’s not yet clear whether he’ll survive, like Clinton, or be forced out of office, like Nixon.

Nixon’s worst year resulted from crimes in his 1972 reelection effort, when burglars working for the campaign got caught breaking into the Democratic headquarters, and then Nixon and others conspired to stop the break-in investigation and cover up what had happened.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wiener-trump-nixon-clinton-20190103-story.html

It's going to be a pretty bad year for the rest of us, too.

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