Trump Now Says “Crooked Hillary's”
Email Scandal Worse Than Watergate
(Hint: No, it is not)
First the weasel analogy seen
in this short National Geography video to illustrate my post title.
Rabbit: Trump
Supporter; Weasel: Trump; Somewhat Graphic at the End
Now, the story:
Trump lately says the Clinton email mess is worse than Watergate and
his supporters agree … noting could be further from the truth. It is not worse,
bad, sure, nowhere close in any respect. (From the Daily Beast a few days ago here in part
– good job, too).
Background on Watergate: It began with a break-in of Democratic National Committee
offices at 2:30 a.m. on June 17, 1972, at Washington’s Watergate hotel. The
White House press secretary dubbed it a “third-rate burglary.”
Some two years
later, after a Supreme Court ruling ordered President Nixon to turn over
audiotapes he had secretly recorded in the Oval Office, the so-called smoking
gun tape came to light. It reveals Nixon six days after the break-in ordering
White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman to use the CIA to get the FBI to back
off investigating the break-in.
A Special Investigations Unit in the White House designed to plug leaks
to the press and known as the “Plumbers” was found to be behind the break-in, a
ham-handed attempt to install listening devices in the offices of the political
opposition. The arrests of the five burglars and their links to the Committee
for the Re-Election of the President (CREEP)
and the White House led to the cover-up and the abuses of power that took down
Nixon’s presidency.
Nixon resigned on Aug. 8, 1974, prompted by what was revealed in the
smoking gun tape. He was not the only casualty:
Sixty-nine people in his administration would be indicted for a variety
of crimes, including money laundering,
destruction of documents, and payment of hush money, with 48 of them found
guilty of wiretapping, perjury, and obstruction of justice, and sent to prison.
Nixon’s top aides, Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, were among those who were
convicted and served time along with Attorney General John Mitchell.
The H. R. Haldeman served 18
months for conspiracy and obstruction of justice before he was released on
parole. He asked Nixon for a pardon on the eve of the president’s resignation.
Nixon refused. Haldeman later said Nixon was involved in the cover-up “from Day
1.”
Now having said all that, the
bigger question still lingers here: “Why do Trumpeters trust and believe his
line of crap, while blasting everyone at arm’s length as if he’s the gospel,
yeah, why is that?”
I say it’s what the late Sen. Pat Moynihan referred to as “being
dumbed down.” In simple terms a huge chunk of Trump supporters come from the conspiracy
nut crowd, a lot like the TEA “party” movement back in 2010 that sweep in like
the worst hurricane in history and died about as quickly within GOP ranks.
Yeah, that bad.
There is so much hate and anger in America
today that a huckster like Trump, a con artist that Rubio called him, a true
Flim-Flam Man, a charlatan of the highest order is what he really is, that his base will
believe anything that flows from this mouth, whether good, bad, indifferent, ugly,
nasty, mean-spirited, or more insulting than the last insult, and everyone is
fair game. Do they really want that kind of man as our President? Wow, if so, and wow is all I can
say. Nay, wait, double dog wow.
Will it all be over,
complete, finished, done with, or kaput on November 8. Hardly, not if
Trump loses … his army of lawyers will flood us with lawsuit after lawsuit up
to and maybe even past January 20th – inauguration day – which could
be postponed, too. That would be an American first especially with this 4-4 divided USSC
Imagine a Bush-Gore II — it would pale in comparison to what Trump could wrought on
the country – at least in my view. And, yes, he is capable of doing exactly that. Trump hates to lose at anything he tries, and he has the record to prove it.
Thanks for stopping by…
definitely stay tuned.
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