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Jonathan Bernstein: What to make of Trump’s mad power grab plan

Donald Trump and his allies are pledging to remake the presidency if he is elected again, giving him and the office more authority than it has ever had and certainly far more than the framers of the US Constitution envisioned.

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White House Plumbers review – you’ll give up on Woody Harrelson’s Watergate drama after one episode

It may have an absolutely star-packed cast, but this meandering political farce will rapidly lose your interest – unless you’re an aficionado of US political scandals from the 70s

The Guardian - UK

Meet the White House Plumbers cast: who's who in the series

The White House Plumbers cast features some big names playing some notorious historical figures in the based-on-a-true-story limited series.

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Dean: Trump may pull "dictators' ploy"

Nixon's former White House counsel John Dean predicts violence from supporters if Trump is federally prosecuted

Salon

Trump demands return of seized documents – by order of social media

FBI took records including some top secret national security files after a search of the ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago property

The Guardian - US

Did Cassidy Hutchinson sink Trump '24?

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

Salon

Cassidy Hutchinson: who is the ex-aide testifying in the January 6 hearings?

The former executive assistant to Mark Meadows will be the first ex-Trump White House employee to testify in person

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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.

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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.

Roll Call

Wallowing in Watergate 50 years later: A political quiz

Fifty years later, the Watergate scandal is remembered in broad strokes

The Independent UK

Watergate scandal: How a single piece of tape brought down the US President

One botched break-in 50 years ago today would end up changing US history and American politics forever as it set of a series of events that brought down then president Richard Nixon

Daily Mirror

50 Years Later, the Motive Behind Watergate Remains Clouded

Despite the abundance of transcripts, FBI reports, and memoirs from those involved, we still know more about the cover-up than we do about the infamous political scandal.

Reason

Why the televised hearings on the January 6 insurrection will be historic

They will mark a milestone in the battle between democracy and autocracy. Everyone should tune in and watch them

The Guardian - US

Can the Jan. 6 hearings save America?

History will judge these hearings by the result: Will Trump and his minions finally face some kind of justice?

Salon

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Tribune News Service

Jan. 6 hearings aim to catch America's attention with prime-time TV debut

WASHINGTON — The televised hearings that begin Thursday into the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol will need to produce show-stopping moments to grab a divided, distracted nation that has largely moved on.

WEKU

Watergate Committee hearings may be both an inspiration and a hard act to follow

Fifty years from now, when Americans look back on the riotous break-in at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will it have as much impact as memories of the Watergate scandal continue to have today?

The Guardian - US

‘I’m living in the bubble’: the man who helped bring Nixon down, 50 years on

John Dean speaks on the 1972 Watergate break-in and why he has never been more concerned about US democracy than now

Los Angeles Times

50 years after the Watergate break-in, John Dean relives the scandal that changed his life

LOS ANGELES — After John Dean gave his historic 1973 testimony on the Watergate scandal that eventually brought down the Nixon White House, he wanted to move on with his life.

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Chicago Tribune

‘Gaslit’ review: Julia Roberts humanizes Watergate in new Starz series co-starring Sean Penn

Behind every great political scandal, there are players whose stories get shoved to the side by the first, second and even third drafts of history.

The Independent UK

Who has left and who has returned to Twitter over Elon Musk takeover?

‘I fear this free speech bid is going to help this hell platform reach its final form of totally lawless hate, bigotry, and misogyny’

The Guardian - UK

Gaslit review – a star-powered Watergate drama that grips and doesn’t let go

Julia Roberts is fantastic as ‘mouth of the south’ Martha Mitchell in this prestige bit of TV – and she knows it

Salon

"Gaslit": More than Julia Roberts' show

Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Dan Stevens, Betty Gilpin and more star in this political thriller that lacks cohesion

Manchester Evening News

Who is in the Gaslit TV series cast alongside Julia Roberts and Sean Penn?

The programme follows the lesser-known characters caught up in the Watergate scandal

The Independent UK

Gaslit review: A sublime Julia Roberts can’t save new Watergate series

A plodding new series shows us the infamous Seventies US political scandal through the eyes of Martha Mitchell, wife of Richard Nixon’s attorney-general, but lacks any of the drama of the actual event

The Guardian - UK

Dan Stevens: ‘People thought I was crazy’

This was the response when the actor famously left Downton Abbey at its height, fearful of being typecast as a floppy-haired aristo. Now based in LA, he’s starring in everything from comedy and horror to a new series about Watergate

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