Spiro Agnew left public life the same way he entered it; his gut instincts and a self-described “subliminal type of intelligence” drove him to deny any accusations against him, no matter their actual truth, and then to attack, by name, and
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Agnew was Trump before there was Trump. In fact, due to both him and Nixon being investigated at the same time, OLC came up with the decision that the VP could be indicted while in office and the President could. Mueller later felt he could not indict Trump due to that OLC decision
“We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men,”
― The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump
― The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump
“Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s about the army of consultants, politicians, and media figures who stood back and stood by as everything they ever fought for was degraded and devalued. The people who privately admitted they recognized all the risks but still climbed aboard for a ride on the SS Trump Hellship that they knew would assuredly sink.”
― Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
― Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
“These evangelical [leaders] are the biggest phonies of all,” says Michael Steele, the former party chairman. “These are the people who spent the last forty years telling everyone how to live, who to love, what to think about morality. And then this motherfucker comes along defiling the White House and disrespecting God’s children at every turn, but it’s cool, because he gave them two Supreme Court justices. They got their thirty pieces of silver.”
― American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
― American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
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