As I remember it, the Republican party stuck with Nixon thru his crimes and only turned on him when his polling reached 25%.

The final straw was when he fired the special prosecutor. The resignations of the AG and Deputy AG before Robert Bork stepped up and fired Cox lead to Congress opening investigations. Public outcry for impeachment led the GOP to step in and inform him that if he did not resign he would be impeached and likely go to prison. I don't know what Nixon was polling at that time though but I cannot imagine it was good.

It was set up for Ford to pardon Nixon to "end our long national nightmare" which has set the precedent for all the criminal activities we've seen from Reagan, HW, W and now Pedo47.

Letting Nixon off the hook for his crimes and allowing him to rehabilitate his image as a statesman was the first in a long series of mistakes that have told presidents they are above law.

Corrupt Roberts only made it official with his ruling Pedo is immune from crimes he commits while in office.