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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump, Russia and a Watergate Veteran's Deja Vu
Last edited Sun Mar 5, 2017, 06:27 PM - Edit history (1)
Pure wisdom from John Dean, White House counsel to Richard M. Nixon.
Here are two cardinal Washington rules. When a politician declares that something is "much ado about nothing," it's about something. And when politicians lie, it's because they're trying to hide something.
This brings us to the Trump-Russia connection, which President Donald Trump charges has been distorted by "fake news" manipulators conducting a political witch hunt. It's neither; it's raised serious issues that will cast a shadow over his presidency for the foreseeable future.
"If there is nothing there, nothing to hide, you open the doors and invite them in," says John Dean, of Watergate fame. "When you start seeing a big pushback and blaming it all on the media, you know there's something there."
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Dean thinks there should be both a congressional inquiry and a law-enforcement investigation led by a special counsel.
"These investigations need something to feed it," Dean said."The press can't crack this by itself, but if there are real investigations, there will be leaks." - Bloomberg
Beautifully articulated!
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Trump, Russia and a Watergate Veteran's Deja Vu (Original Post)
ffr
Mar 2017
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HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)1. All of us who were Adults
during Watergate are now having Deja Vu, but this is far worse. Watergate did not involve a Foreign Power. Shame on those Senior Trumpsters.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)2. Link, please?
ffr
(22,644 posts)3. Fixed.
Yesterday's news day kinda wore me out.