For over 50 years, the establishment media has cemented in our modern history a simplistic view of former President Richard Nixon as a criminal villain. This cartoonish assessment stands in contrast to serious research showing that partisan media fraud forced him out of office.
In the wake of the media-enabled Russiagate hoax, Gen Z, in a movement known as “Nixonmaxxing,” has begun to question the established anti-Nixon narrative. Many now espouse Nixon’s greatness as a wise, resolute champion of the common man, corruptly brought down by Democrat elites in coordination with an uncontrollable CIA. Ironically, the FBI, President Donald Trump’s current bete noire, had played it straight, even though its Deputy Director Mark Felt was used by the Washington Post to distort the Bureau’s investigative findings.
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Gen Z is keen to draw parallels between the treatment of Nixon during the Watergate scandal and Trump during the Russiagate scandal. Both scandals began with a Democratic National Committee break-in — Watergate’s 1972 DNC office burglary and the 2016 hacking of DNC servers, which the Atlantic literally dubbed “A Watergate Break-In for the 21st Century” — and ended in media-driven impeachment proceedings. In each case, the media coverage became a self-sustaining “bandwagon” — Nixon’s own staff complained that prime placement of Watergate stories became routine even when the news was minimal, echoing later complaints from Trump allies about disproportionate Russiagate coverage.
Although the outlet continued to claim that the Watergate burglary had been a Nixon reelection campaign operation and that the broad program had been run out of the Oval Office, neither claim was true.
A very commonsensical observation about Nixon’s Watergate actions was made by Vice President JD Vance, to wit, that today Nixon’s actions wouldn’t merit more than a 12-hour news cycle. Of course, while Vance is spot-on, he is assuming the truth of the allegation that Nixon was covering up a known campaign operation, the gist of the impeachment case. But he was not.
Just as, in retrospect, Nixon was not involved in any Watergate burglary, and had known nothing about it, even after the fact, the Russiagate investigation showed not a shred of evidence of Trump misconduct.
The overall charge in Russiagate was that there was some conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Russia, with Trump’s team coordinating with Russian assets to hack the DNC email servers, while benefiting from Russian internet bots generating pro-Trump social media posts.
These seemingly absurd suggestions were based on the discredited Steele Dossier, concocted secretly by the Clinton campaign to distract attention from Hillary Clinton’s corruption of the DNC. The allegations were deemed necessary to explain how internally downloaded DNC documents were leaked to WikiLeaks by shifting blame to a Russian hack.
Russiagate was put on steroids by the deep state, through the FBI and CIA, as then-Director of the FBI James Comey hid the CIA report that Russiagate was a Clinton ruse. The FBI later used this hysteria after Trump’s election to discredit him and, hopefully, trap the blustery Trump into obstruction, a James Comey specialty (think Martha Stewart, Scooter Libby), thus grist for the impeachment mill.
Sensational Russiagate media coverage was roaring just as Gen Z was becoming an active news audience. Born into an era of low institutional trust and deep skepticism toward traditional newsrooms, many Gen Z readers learned to scrutinize sensational political narratives during Russiagate, instinctively linking them to Russiagate’s predecessor, Watergate, the mother of all political scandals.
The parallels between these hyped-up scandals are too great to ignore. In both cases, partisan media, along with an insidious deep state, cheered on by elitist pseudo-intellectual Democrats, trashed a popularly elected president pledged to help the common man.
The special counsel in Watergate, like that in Russiagate, was more concerned with concealing inconvenient facts, each a hammer as to which every fact was a presidential nail.
We now know that Clinton conceived the Steele Dossier while her team collaborated with Russian assets, ranging from Igor Danchenko to Charles Dolan to Oleg Deraposka (via Christopher Steele). This followed her approval as secretary of state of the sale of Uranium One to Russian interests, in seeming exchange for hundreds of millions of connected contributions to the Clinton Foundation.
Now Watergate. Through our extensive research of declassified documents and Washington Post archives detailed in the book Postgate, in conjunction with the research of Jim Hougan’s Secret Agenda and Len Colodny’s Silent Coup, it is irrefutable that the outlet knew in real time that the Watergate burglary was a mission of the CIA and that the Democrats were the perfect target for a CIA operation under unwitting White House cover.
The paper, however, from the first day knew that the CIA was involved and the target was wiretapped calls between prostitutes and Democratic visitors. The Washington Post concealed the CIA’s role, the prostitution, and, most importantly, the lack of a campaign purpose, thus of no value to the White House. Nixon, a popular president reelected by 49 states, was falsely driven from office.
THE NEWSPAPER THAT ‘SAVED DEMOCRACY’ SPENT 50 YEARS HIDING THE CIA’S ROLE IN WATERGATE
Gen Z can now see the historical rectitude of Nixonmaxxing, and is energetically pushing the program.
The adage goes, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth puts its pants on.” Thanks to Gen Z and Nixonmaxxing, truth’s pants are finally on, and it is moving fast.
John D. O’Connor is a former federal prosecutor and the San Francisco attorney who represented W. Mark Felt when he revealed himself as Deep Throat in 2005. O’Connor is the author of the books Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate and Began Today’s Partisan Advocacy Journalism and The Mysteries of Watergate: What Really Happened. O’Connor and Mark Felt also collaborated on the 2006 book, A G-Man’s Life.
