Several scandals shook the corridors of the White House over the decades, left their mark on the American presidency, and sparked widespread controversy internally and externally.
This series began with a Watergate scandal in the 1970s when the headquarters of the National Democratic Committee were hacked in the Washington complex in Washington, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
In the eighties of the twentieth century, the Iran-Contra scandal exploded when officials of President Ronald Reagan administration were involved in selling weapons secretly to Iran, despite the ban, in exchange for financing Contra groups in Nicaragua.
In the end of the nineties, the sexual scandal of President Bill Clinton with the coach, Monica Lewinsky, occupied American and international public opinion, and led to Clinton’s accountability in Congress, without being isolated.
In 2003, the George W. Bush administration faced sharp criticism after the invasion of Iraq under the pretext of Baghdad possessing weapons of mass destruction, the allegations that no evidence was found later.
During the era of Barack Obama, Edward Snowden’s leaks, “WikiLeaks” documents, was one of the largest security breakthroughs that revealed large -scale spy practices by the American intelligence services.
In 2016, serious accusations were raised of Russian intervention in the presidential elections that brought Donald Trump to the White House, and a special investigation was opened on these allegations, then the incident of the Capitol stormed on January 6, 2021, where Trump was accused of inciting violence, which increased the division inside the country.
Later, the secret document scandal that was found in the homes of both Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump appeared, raising questions about how to deal with sensitive files.
Recently, a new scandal called “Segnal” exploded after leaking high -level secret talks related to US military plans towards the Houthis, which sparked a storm of criticism again against the administration of President Donald Trump.
