, Nixon instructed Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox , who had been appointed by Congress to look into his illegal activities during the Watergate scandal . When Richardson resigned his post in protest at the President ’s attempt to interfere in judicial proceedings in such a blatant manner , Nixon instructed Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to do his bidding . When he , too , resigned in protest , Nixon turned to Solicitor General Robert Bork — who duly complied .
According to BuzzFeed News , Trump tried to meet with Gadhafi himself to " explore business ventures . " 1980s Chinese Communist Party Trump made waves in March during a GOP presidential debate when he called the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacrelife.die.deathcausedbyviolentevents, in which hundreds of protesters were killed as the People 's Liberation Army enforced martial law , a " riot . " While he insisted that he did not endorse the killings of the pro - democracy demonstrators , he called the Chinese government " strong . " " I was not endorsing it , " Trump said .