Top Trump officials claim they’ve found bizarre new 'deep state hoax'

Two top officials in President Donald Trump's administration are teasing "evidence" they have that will vindicate one of the biggest presidential scandals in history.

Last month, President Donald Trump's officials promised that they had evidence of rampant fraud in the 2020 Georgia and Arizona elections. On Sunday, however, the same officials proclaimed that former President Richard Nixon was innocent and that the Watergate scandal was a "deep state hoax."

According to pardon attorney Ed Martin, "We should mark the 54th anniversary of the Watergate break-in (a few days ago) by remembering this: it is the OG hoax with the pre-FISA CIA running wiretaps on domestic politicians. And then blaming the Nixon campaign. And Washington Post leading (not reporting)."

Even the Encyclopedia Britannica makes it clear that there was no CIA involvement in the Watergate break-in. Rather, "Four of them formerly had been active in Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activities against Fidel Castro in Cuba."

Trump's chief of protocol and ambassador Monica Crowley shared Martin's post, adding, "President Nixon was the target of a Deep State hoax. He will be vindicated!"

Crowley was the same official who promised last month that they would "soon" have proof that would prove 2020 election fraud.

“He did win in a landslide, and we will soon be able to give evidence about that,” she said, according to May 8 reporting from the conservative Washington Examiner.

Members of the Nixon administration and his own allies testified against him about the scandal. There were also taped conversations and a paper trail showing the Watergate connections. Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, hatched a scheme to have the CIA falsely declare that the FBI's involvement in the Watergate break-in investigation could compromise national security, and that there should be other investigators. Nixon's Oval Office taping system recorded the conversation, and he fought to keep the tapes secret up until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against him in a unanimous decision.

The conservative New York Post reported on John W. Dean, Nixon's former White House Counsel, who said in his book The Nixon Defense that the infamous missing 18 minutes in the tapes “contained some general comment that revealed [Nixon’s] involvement in the [Watergate] cover-up.”

“There’s other talk that week that would have been equally as damaging,” Dean also explained in the book. “It’s just those tapes weren’t subpoenaed.”

Trump has spent years claiming at one point or another that all of his biggest scandals were a "deep state hoax," including Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the 2020 election results and the investigation around his theft of classified documents.