'I Am Not a Crook.' The Nixon Tax Story Rachel Maddow Just Compared to Trump's

In the introduction to a headline-making episode Tuesday of her MSNBC show in which she revealed the contents of one of Donald Trump's old tax returns, Rachel Maddow had cause to remind audiences of a particular presidential one-liner from American history: the moment in November of 1973 when President Richard Nixon told the American people, "I am not a crook."

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