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“History is repeating itself, and with a vengeance,” John Dean told the judiciary committee, drawing a parallel between Watergate, which brought down Richard Nixon, and “Russiagate” which has bedeviled Donald Trump.
But what strikes this veteran of Nixon’s White House is not the similarities but the stark differences.
Watergate began with an actual crime, a midnight break-in at the offices of the DNC in June 1972 to wiretap phones and filch files, followed by a cover-up that spread into the inner circles of the White House.
Three years after FBI Director James Comey began the investigation of Trump, however, the final report of his successor, Robert Mueller, found there had been no conspiracy, no collusion and no underlying crime.
How can Trump be guilty of covering up a crime the special counsel says he did not commit?
And the balance of power today in D.C. is not as lopsided as it was in 1973-1974.
During Watergate, Nixon had little support in a city where the elites, the press, the Democratic Congress and the liberal bureaucracy labored in earnest to destroy him. Nixon had few of what Pat Moynihan called “second and third echelons of advocacy.”
Contrast this with Trump, a massive presence on social media, whose tweets, daily interactions with the national press and rallies keep his enemies constantly responding to his attacks rather than making their case.
Trump interrupts their storytelling. And behind Trump is a host of defenders at Fox News and some of the top radio talk show hosts in America.
There are pro-Trump websites that did not exist in Nixon’s time, home to populist and conservative columnists and commentators full of fight.
Leftists may still dominate mainstream media. But their unconcealed hatred of Trump and the one-sided character of their coverage has cost them much of the credibility they had half a century ago.
The media are seen as militant partisans masquerading as journalists. more here
Russiagate is far worse than watergate.
For the democrat traitors who tried to pull it off…
This ‘Russiagate’ nonsense has run its course. It’s trashed the MSM. However, it helped AOC, Tlaib, and Omar elected. All three are now becomming as popular as a bad case of diarrhea, but their supporters have just doubled-down on their stupidity.
The question now is how many voters will back socialism / marxism. If they couldn’t figure out that the Mueller investigation was a poorly done hatchet job I’m not very hopeful.
they caught the few watergaters. Liddy and dean and a few others and punished them.
Now we have hundreds of collaborators and none have been prosecuted and persecuted yet….and when it happens America wont be blaming Trump, we will be thanking him.
If the Senate votes to convict Trump it would mean a number of Republicans would have to vote for it and that would lose the White House, the Senate, and the House.
Considering that many of the Republican Senators would just as soon be Democrats anyway, why would they care? Romney would vote for conviction. I think the reason some of them run as Republicans is because 1) their districts run more conservative and a Democrat may have a harder time winning or 2) there are so many Democrats it is hard to stand out from the pack. Most of them lie to the electorate to get elected then turn on them once they get to Washington.
The only noticeable similarity between watergate and todays russiagate is that the democrats are the same assholes they’ve always been.
Driving Nixon out of office caused all kinds of havoc, but it was necessary to “restore the rule of law.” Have I got that right Ted Kennedy? But not the rule of law for you, Amiright? Because the law says that you committed a clear cut case of vehicular homicide, at the very least, not to mention obstruction of justice But there you were leading the charge for the rule of law.
And what about what happened in 1975, a few months after Nixon was gone. Didn’t the Commies violate the terms of the Paris accords by invading the South. And didn’t this treaty (ie, law) require the US to give aid to the South, which of course you legal purists refused to do? The rule of law didn’t seem that important then, did it? But then again, if that means 3 million people in that part of the world die as a result, who cares? How can that compare to the horror of Nixon refusing to cooperate in his own political lynching?
OK, I’m done. Stop me before I rant again