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Originally Posted by hcap
WORSE THAN WATERGATE
John Dean got a front-row seat to the paranoid treachery of President Richard Nixon. As the White House counsel, he watched the president lie constantly, engage in relentless subterfuge, and conduct his continual search for someone new to throw under the bus as the walls closed in around him. But most of all, he watched Nixon trample the rule of law in a desperate survival instinct, most prominently by engineering the firing of the special prosecutor leading the Watergate.investigation in what became known as the Saturday Night Massacre.
So who better to turn to than Dean, as the noise grows louder that President Trump may also try to fire the man leading an investigation into him and his associates? Dean joined Anderson Cooper on CNN Monday night to offer a stunning assessment: Trump has already gone farther than Nixon ever did to obstruct justice. What I think we're witnessing is a very public obstruction of justice. He, as I see it, has already exceeded everything that Nixon did. He's really much more intimately involved than Nixon ever was in the cover-up...Trump is Nixon on steroids and stilts.
Dean's main reasoning is that Trump is doing at least as much as Nixon did, but earlier in the investigation and in plain sight. Before this very special era in American history, it was considered verboten for a president to comment publicly on any Justice Department investigation. That was to prevent the perception they were trying to influence that probe through public pressure—or that it would be a reflection of more covert behavior behind the scenes. Now, Trump comments on an investigation into himself and his associates on a near-daily basis.
John Dean: Trump is Nixon on steroids
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...ids-sot-ac.cnn
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Well, Humpty, at least Trump isn't
covering anything up, is he? Worse than Watergate, indeed...
