The journalists call Trump the country's 'first seditious president' in a new forward to their 1974 book 'All the President's Men.'
All the President's MenWoodward and Bernstein penned the foreword for a new edition of their landmark book, which was first published in 1974, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1972, by operatives working for then-President Nixon.
"Donald Trump not only sought to destroy the electoral system through false claims of voter fraud and unprecedented public intimidation of state election officials, but he also then attempted to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to his duly elected successor, for the first time in American history," the pair wrote.
Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein wrote that the corruption of former President Donald Trump surpassed that of Richard Nixon, in a new forward to their book"All the President's Men." Above, an archival shot of the reporters investigating the Watergate scandal.Woodward and Bernstein then go into detail about the machinations that ultimately led to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, stating that Trump and his team"zeroed in on the Jan.
"In a deception that exceeded even Nixon's imagination, Trump and a group of lawyers, loyalists, and White House aides devised a strategy to bombard the country with false assertions that the 2020 election was rigged and that Trump had really won," the journalists explained."Leading up to that crucial date, Trump's lawyers circulated memos with manufactured claims of voter fraud that had counted the dead, underage citizens, prisoners, and out-of-state residents.
The duo further claimed that the actions of Trump and his allies leading up to the Capitol riot were"clearly sedition," defining the term as actions that incite"people to rebel against the governing authority of the state." In summation, they declared Trump to be"the first seditious president in our history."
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