How far will conservatives go to cover up

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their planning and participation in the January 6 coup attempt? Probably to any lengths necessary. In the Watergate coverup, Attorney General John Mitchell had his own wife kidnapped by government agents to keep her from talking to the press and identifying one of the Watergate burglars. "The following Thursday, on June 22,[10] Mitchell made a late-night phone call to Helen Thomas of the United Press, reportedly Mitchell's favorite reporter.[13] Mitchell informed Thomas of her intention to leave her husband until he resigned from the CRP.[13] The phone call, however, abruptly ended. When Thomas called back, the hotel operator told her that Mitchell was "indisposed" and would not be able to talk.[12] Thomas then called John, who seemed unconcerned and said, "[Martha] gets a little upset about politics, but she loves me and I love her and that’s what counts."[10] In her subsequent report of the incident, Thomas said that it was apparent someone had taken the phone from Mitchell's hand and the woman could be heard saying "You just get away." Thomas's account was widely covered in the news, and many media outlets made efforts to find Mitchell for an interview. A few days later, Marcia Kramer, a veteran crime reporter of the New York Daily News, tracked Mitchell to the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. Kramer found "a beaten woman" who had "incredible" black and blue marks on her arms.[12] In what turned out to be the first of many interviews, Mitchell related how in the week following the Watergate burglary, she had been held captive in that California hotel and that it was King that had pulled the phone cord from the wall.[12][13] After several attempts to escape from the balcony, she was physically accosted by five men, which had left her needing stitches.[14][15] Herb Kalmbach, Nixon's personal lawyer, was summoned to the hotel and he decided to call for a doctor to inject her with a tranquilizer.[10] The incident left her fearing for her life.[16] They were extremely jealous of her and feared her because she was very candid.[16] James W. McCord, referencing Nixon and his advisors Although the Watergate burglary was the leading story across all news formats, her reports were relegated to human-interest stories in major newspapers, including The Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Daily News.[13] Nixon aides, in an effort to discredit Mitchell, told the press that she had a "drinking problem",[17][page needed] which was not entirely untrue.[18] They also suggested that she was convalescing in Silver Hill Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Connecticut.[19] Initially, Mitchell began contacting reporters when her husband's role in the scandal became known in an effort to defend him.[20] She believed him to be a "fall guy" and encouraged him to turn against the President.[10] Soon after the burglary, John resigned, citing his desire to spend more time with his family as the reason.[10] In the meantime, corruption in the GOP had moved sharply into focus for the outspoken Martha.[13] In May 1973, she provided sworn testimony in a deposition at the offices of attorney Henry B. Rothblatt in connection with the Democratic party's US$6.4 million civil suit against the CRP.[21] The Mitchells would ultimately separate in September 1973, with John suddenly moving out of the family home with their daughter, Marty.[22][3] On January 1, 1975, he was convicted of perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy for his involvement in the Watergate break-in; he served 19 months in a federal prison.[3] They never saw each other again.[18] Because of her involvement in the scandal, she was discredited and abandoned by most of her family, except for her son Jay.[citation needed] It was not until February 1975 that McCord, after having been convicted for his role in the Watergate burglary, admitted that Mitchell was, in his words, "basically kidnapped", and corroborated her story.[16] He further asserted that H. R. Haldeman, as well as other top aides of President Nixon, had been "jealous" of her popularity in the media and had sought out ways to embarrass her.[16] Nixon was later to tell interviewer David Frost in 1977 that Martha was a distraction to John Mitchell, such that no one was minding the store, and "If it hadn't been for Martha Mitchell, there'd have been no Watergate." Yep, conservatives are really that evil. 40 Republican government employees were eventually convicted and many including the Attorney General himself went to prison for a long time. Do you really think Bill Barr isn't going to prison?