Mirroring Nixons final days
By David Greenberg
May 10 at 1:23 AM
... no presidential deed — not Ronald Reagan’s trading of arms for hostages in Iran-contra, not Bill Clinton’s cover-up of his affair with a young White House aide in the Lewinsky affair — ever rivaled any of Richard Nixon’s serial abuses of executive power in their gravity. Until now.
... Trump’s 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 ...
Nixon’s 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 Trump’s 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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