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For any copyright, please send me a message. WASHINGTON ― If Donald Trump survives impeachment, he can thank the work of a young aide for the last Republican president to face impeachment for trying to cheat in his reelection: Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News. Trump was impeached Wednesday for using $391 million in taxpayer money to get an illegal advantage in his reelection ― 45 years after Richard Nixon faced impeachment for using tens of thousands of dollars of campaign money to do the same thing. “President Nixon attempted to corrupt elections. His agents broke into the Democratic Party headquarters to get a leg up on the election and then, just like President Trump, he tried to cover it up. Then he resigned,” California Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who worked on the articles of impeachment against Nixon as a 26-year-old law student, said in Wednesday’s floor debate. “This is even worse. President Trump not only abused his power to help his reelection, he used a foreign government to do it. He used military aid provided to fight the Russians as leverage solely to benefit his own political campaign.” But while Nixon faced plummeting poll numbers and wound up resigning before the impeachment charges could hit the House floor, Trump is likely to get through a Senate trial with at most a few Republicans voting to remove him from office. The single biggest difference in the two landscapes: Nixon’s impeachment took place before Ailes could act on a 1970 memo titled “A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News,” while Trump’s happened decades after Ailes’ 1996 creation had become the most-watched channel on cable. “Fox News and the conservative media world prepared the groundwork for a demagogue,” said former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh, who spent years in that world as an AM radio talk show host and is now challenging Trump for the 2020 Republican nomination. “They spew out Trump’s lies, and people believe it.” In 1974, there were three broadcast television networks and dozens of major daily newspapers, whose journalists worked on a shared consensus of fact-based reporting. In 2019, there are many fewer newspapers, and instead there are a host of right-wing media outlets, dominated by Fox News, that serve to repeat and amplify Trump’s claims, regardless of their accuracy. Nixon saw his approval rating drop to 24% after the Supreme Court ordered the release of audio tapes proving his role in the Watergate cover-up. Trump, even after the release of a July 25 rough transcript and supporting testimony showing he had coerced Ukraine to hurt his most feared Democratic rival, still has approval ratings in the low 40s. “Nixon might have burned the tapes if he knew Fox News would have backed his action,” presidential his
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