Mirroring Nixons final days
By David Greenberg
May 10 at 1:23 AM
... no presidential deed not Ronald Reagans trading of arms for hostages in Iran-contra, not Bill Clintons cover-up of his affair with a young White House aide in the Lewinsky affair ever rivaled any of Richard Nixons serial abuses of executive power in their gravity. Until now.
... Trumps firing of .. Comey who was overseeing the probe of .. collusion with Russia to influence the 2016 election was technically legal ... But it .. violates ..democratic norms that have long governed the use of .. power ...
Nixons actions .. were also technically legal. But as everyone could see, they constituted a blatant attempt to snuff out an investigation ... In that sense, the parallels with Trumps firing of Comey seem striking.
In both instances, the sitting president was suspected of having tampered with the machinery of our democratic presidential elections ...
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