Trump begs GOP voters to spare him this fate: ‘Pretend I’m running, please’

Source Scout · Cleveland.com / The Plain Dealer reports: If the midterm landscape wasn’t dire enough for the GOP, President Donald Trump is apparently looking to resurrect one of the biggest ghosts of the Republican Party’s past. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Department of Justice is looking into whether disgraced President Richard Nixon got a raw deal during the Watergate investigation of the 1970s. The Journal reports that the Department of Justice under Trump will look at whether special prosecutors at the time engaged in misconduct while investigating Nixon and Watergate.

WilluChill News DeskCleveland, Ohio area (publisher market; exact incident location not stated) · Published Friday, October 2, 2026 at 5:12 PM UTCUpdated Friday, October 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM UTC

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