guidebook that is currently number 10 on the american library list of most banned books. velshi starts now. it s saturday june, 16th ali velshi former president and donald trump is alleged to have absconded with top secret classified documents belonging to the united states government. his defenders are debasing themselves and their preclinical party to defend their dear donald, but first things first, trump did not mishandled with documents. mishandling is careless, a mistake perhaps, not having state secrets at your golf club. not taking u.s. battle plans from the white house, keeping them in violation of the law and the subsequent corridor, and then waving them around in a meeting with a writer and a publisher, neither of whom have security clearances or the need to know any of that information. but perhaps most damning is trump s public defense against the indictments. the fact is he is not really denying the key points, the fact has alleged in the 37 accounts. tr
quote, in our view, there is clear evidence that richard m. nixon participated in a conspiracy to obstruct justice by concealing the identity of those responsible for the watergate break-in, and other criminal offenses. and quote. the full squad of the wrongdoings wasn t entirely clear yet. a separate memo, from september the 3rd, 1974, five days before the pardon was issued, from a another aide, listed ten distinct matters that were, quote still under investigation, and may prove to have some direct connection to activities, in which mr. nixon was personally involved. and quote. public opinion wasn t on for side either. a gallup poll from that time found the majority of americans, 56%, said they wanted nixon to face criminal charges. people even came up to protest the pardon. in fact, forts approval rating plummeted, and never fully recovered. time however has been relatively kind to ford, and his part of nixon.