{"id":218034,"date":"2026-04-07T13:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218034"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:48:04","slug":"opinion-from-watergate-to-epstein-how-trump-changed-the-morality-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218034","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | From Watergate to Epstein: How Trump Changed the Morality of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moral scandals have long shaped Western politics, but for decades they functioned as tests of institutional strength and the credibility of ethical discourse. Leaders from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton, alongside prime ministers and ministers across France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, faced crises that shook the foundations of power and public trust&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/2026\/02\/11\/opinion-from-watergate-to-epstein-how-trump-changed-the-morality-of-the-world\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=opinion-from-watergate-to-epstein-how-trump-changed-the-morality-of-the-world\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moral scandals have long shaped Western politics, but for decades they functioned as tests of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218034-opinion-from-watergate-to-epstein-how-trump-changed-the-morality-of-the-world.jpeg",2000,1333,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218034-opinion-from-watergate-to-epstein-how-trump-changed-the-morality-of-the-world-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218034-opinion-from-watergate-to-epstein-how-trump-changed-the-morality-of-the-world-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218034-opinion-from-watergate-to-epstein-how-trump-changed-the-morality-of-the-world-768x512.jpeg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218034-opinion-from-watergate-to-epstein-how-trump-changed-the-morality-of-the-world-1024x682.jpeg",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218034-opinion-from-watergate-to-epstein-how-trump-changed-the-morality-of-the-world-1536x1024.jpeg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218034-opinion-from-watergate-to-epstein-how-trump-changed-the-morality-of-the-world.jpeg",2000,1333,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218034-opinion-from-watergate-to-epstein-how-trump-changed-the-morality-of-the-world-1024x682.jpeg",1024,682,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218034-opinion-from-watergate-to-epstein-how-trump-changed-the-morality-of-the-world-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218034-opinion-from-watergate-to-epstein-how-trump-changed-the-morality-of-the-world-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/218035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}