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FBI search of Trump home was likely vetted carefully, despite Texas Republicans’ claims of a witch hunt

Federal authorities would have needed to meet an extraordinarily high threshold for probable cause to sign off on such a high-profile, politically explosive operation, legal experts say.

The Texas Tribune

How 'fast' politics has left the NSW government staring into the electoral abyss

The 1973 Watergate Committee hearings ran for 51 days. The televised revelations drew a huge audience. The pressure built with slow, devastating intensity, devouring then US President Richard Nixon’s agenda, eventually leaving him no option but to fall on his sword.

The Conversation

How the FBI knew what to search for at Mar-a-Lago – and why the Presidential Records Act is an essential tool for the National Archives and future historians

The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, on Aug. 8, 2022, has sparked a vigorous outcry from Trump and his allies. The details of the search are not clear, but reporting by The New York Times confirms that the search was “at least in part” for…

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Finally, Donald Trump’s misdeeds are catching up with him

The FBI Mar-a-Lago search suggests that the former president is no longer living in a protective bubble, says Guardian US columnist Richard Wolffe

The Guardian - US

As the FBI raids Mar-A-Lago, Donald Trump reaches for unconvincing historical parallels

“These are dark times for our nation”, former US President Donald Trump declared when he announced his mansion at Mar-A-Lago had been raided by FBI agents on Monday night Florida time. An assault like this “could only take place in broken, Third World countries […] corrupt at a level not…

The Conversation

Mar-a-Lago raided by FBI agents, Trump says

WASHINGTON — Former President Trump said in a statement Monday that the FBI is searching his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, in what he described as a “raid.”

Los Angeles Times

In Kansas and Arizona, voters defy expectations to chart their own course

People bristle and resist when told what they can or cannot do. We knew this about guns, vaccinations and masks. And we are seeing some of that with regard to abortion rights, even in red states.

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Will Bunch: Are missing Homeland Security texts hiding the biggest secret of Jan. 6?

You've probably heard the expression that the cover-up is always worse than the crime — a notion that was cemented by the mother of all U.S. political scandals, Watergate. Think about it — only five burglars were nabbed by D.C. cops inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Motorist who crashed into lamppost off M61 'turned out to be driving instructor'

It was trying to overtake an ambulance on a bend just off the M61 on Watergate Lane in Bolton

Wales Online

Will Bunch: Break up the Secret Service and send its people to jail for the Jan. 6 cover-up

Sometimes the irony of America in the 2020s is just too much. Consider the case of James Murray, the current head of the U.S. Secret Service and a 27-year veteran of the force best known for protecting presidents and their families. Earlier this month, Murray abruptly announced that he's leaving…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trump as tyrant and Cheney’s cliffhangers: key moments from the January 6 hearings

From Trump’s lack of concern about armed rioters to possible witness tampering, the revelations have been startling

The Guardian - US

Lawyer's plan for Trump to overturn election included firing acting attorney general

William Olson conceded that his proposed plans could be regarded as tantamount to declaring “martial law” and could be compared with Watergate.

Axios

Donald Trump, at last, is running scared

Of course Trump is trying to intimidate future witnesses. He knows indictments are coming — and he's terrified

Salon

Jamie Raskin: Trump worse than Watergate

Maryland Democrat will lead Tuesday hearing meant to illuminate "greatest political offense" in U.S. history

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Trump's Watergate: Cipollone speaks up

The Jan. 6 committee will finally interview Pat Cipollone, the former White House counsel who has avoided the probe

The Guardian - UK

18½ review – offbeat comedy about sex, lies and the notorious gap in the Watergate tape

The Watergate saga is fictitiously reimagined in this kooky caper that ditches thrills in favour of meandering oddball fun

Salon

Watergate lawyer on Trump office run

The possibility of Trump being eligible to run for office ever again hangs in the balance

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Prosecute Donald Trump: Evidence of criminal intent too damning to ignore

For those who’ve dismissed the proceedings of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol last year as more about political theater than accountability, the testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson should change their minds. The one-time top aide to Mark Meadows, then-President Donald J. Trump’s chief…

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Salon

Did Cassidy Hutchinson sink Trump '24?

Hutchinson makes me more hopeful for America's future — and may have sent Trump scurrying into the shadows

The Independent UK

Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein calls Trump a ‘mad king’ and ‘seditious’ after bombshell Jan 6 hearing

‘The whole idea is now absolutely confirmed, proven, he is a criminal and a seditious president of the United States’

Tribune News Service

Everyone used to know her name in politics. Now Martha Mitchell is back

WASHINGTON — “If it hadn’t been for Martha, there’d have been no Watergate,” Richard Nixon once said.

Roll Call

Everyone used to know her name in politics. Now Martha Mitchell is back - Roll Call

“The Martha Mitchell Effect” aims to put the loudest, brashest Cabinet wife back where she belongs — right at the center of American history.

The Guardian - US

‘Watergate for streaming era’: how the January 6 panel created gripping hearings

The committee have put on hearings that feel more like a Hollywood prestige limited series than a congressional inquiry

WEKU

The Jan. 6 committee has learned some lessons from previous televised hearings

The most telling testimony against the Republican former president has come from Republicans he appointed or who supported him and voted for him (and, in some cases, say they would do so again).

The Independent UK

Jan. 6: Pressure, unsung heroes and Trump's Watergate echoes

The House Jan. 6 committee began its work under deep political skepticism

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