{"id":8391,"date":"2017-02-21T18:25:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2019-10-13T13:53:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T19:53:36","slug":"watergate-lawyer-trump-knowledge-of-russian-hacking-could-lead-to-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/watergate-lawyer-trump-knowledge-of-russian-hacking-could-lead-to-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Watergate Lawyer: Trump knowledge of Russian hacking could lead to impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ifptrump8.jpg\" alt=\"Blog Article Related Image\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"7\" \/><b>Tribune<\/b> &#8211; Richard Ben-Veniste, the prosecutor in the Watergate case, which led to the resignation\u00a0of President Richard Nixon, has said that if President Donald Trump had any knowledge of the Russian hacking scandal of 2016 beforehand, it would be an \u2018impeachable\u2019 and \u2018criminal\u2019 act.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-quote fb_iframe_widget\"><\/div>\n<p>He made these remarks while speaking on MSNBC. Former US president\u00a0Richard Nixon\u2019s White House counsel John Dean drew\u00a0parallels between the Watergate and the 2016 Russian hacking scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon\u2019s White House counsel John Dean drew\u00a0parallels between the Watergate and the 2016 Russian hacking scandal during the same segment.<\/p>\n<p>Dean shed light on the \u2018interesting parallels\u2019 between the two, noting while the modalities were different, they both dealt with the Democratic National Committee, and that is where the comparison stems from.<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Veniste said that the difference between the two scandals is that \u201dHere you\u2019ve got a foreign power, our adversary, the Russians, who are interfering \u2026 with our election, our electoral process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 140%; font-weight: 500;\">Continue Reading<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribune &#8211; Richard Ben-Veniste, the prosecutor in the Watergate case, which led to the resignation\u00a0of President Richard Nixon, has said that if President Donald Trump had any knowledge of the Russian hacking scandal of 2016 beforehand, it would be an \u2018impeachable\u2019 and \u2018criminal\u2019 act. 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