Scott Nishimura
Will President Trump be able to lead the Republican Party once he leaves office? Some have looked for comparisons to President Richard Nixon, who was able to rehabilitate his reputation after he resigned the presidency rather than be impeached.
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Kasey Pipes, a Fort Worth-based government relations consultant and author of the book “After the Fall: The Remarkable Comeback of Richard Nixon,” shared his thoughts with the New York Times in a piece over the weekend.
“Nixon actually felt a sense of responsibility for what had happened,” Pipes toid the Times. “He felt bad about it and publicly and privately would tell people: ‘I let you down. I let the country down.’
“Nixon had come full circle and people had accepted him again,” Pipes continued. “It’s going to be much more difficult for Trump to achieve that level of public acceptance and the main reason is that we haven’t seen any public accountability from him whatsoever. And if we know anything about Trump, I don’t think we will.”