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Really, it goes back to Nixon, and Gerald Ford's pardon. A general pardon for crimes which may or may not have happened, so don't worry about the actual crimes which took place and don't bother investigating what happened because as a matter of law, they're moot. From that moment, there was impunity. Issues of consequential importance for the republic DON'T FUCKING MATTER. Death to America.
But of course, it wasn't all the napalm he rained on Vietnam that got him impeached. It was some DNC after-hours skullduggery.
True, which explains why the liberals bought into the narrative of Russiagate and the theater of Mueller Reports and all that bullshit, which was a farcical mirror of the Clinton (both of them) hearings about Libya and blowjobs. They really thought it might work but the whole Nixon debacle proved it was toothless spectacle, even when they tried going after some domestic side crime instead of the massive criminal actions taken by default as a president of empire.
The "success" of Watergate was actually huge poison pill. It got Nixon to resign and appeared to work. But the subsequent pardon and the vector (some domestic skullduggery, to borrow your word) ensured that the business as usual of killing countless innocents abroad would forever remain beyond reproach.
Marg bar, you know, the thing.