Trump echoes Richard Nixon and Watergate as he slams 'partisan investigations' in State of the Union
February 06, 2019 at 10:11 AM EST
Trump in his State of the Union decried "ridiculous partisan investigations," which could include probes by special counsel Robert Mueller or congressional Democrats, and implicitly called for them to come to an end. Nixon's 1974 address explicitly called for investigators to wrap up the Watergate probe.