No, ‘Emailgate’ Is Not Worse Than Watergate.by John W. Dean

[elleng]

'Donald J. Trump wasted no time in seizing on the unprecedented letter that the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, sent to Congress on Friday, regarding the bureau’s investigations into Hillary Clinton’s emails. “This is bigger than Watergate,” Mr. Trump’s team tweeted just a few hours after the letter was made public.

It’s not the first time Mr. Trump has made the Watergate comparison. In fact, he’s been saying it regularly since the arrival of his new campaign manager, Stephen Bannon, in August. And that’s fitting — Mr. Bannon came from Breitbart, the conspiracy-minded right-wing news site, and his Hail Mary strategy seems to be to paint Mrs. Clinton as a criminal mastermind. And who better a measuring stick than America’s most infamous president, Richard M. Nixon?

But these comparisons are nonsense. Only someone who knows nothing about the law, and the darkest moment of our recent political history, would see a parallel between Nixon’s crimes and Mrs. Clinton’s mistakes.'>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/opinion/no-emailgate-is-not-worse-than-watergate.html?ref=opinion

[Coyotl]

1. This should be in the Very Good Reads forum :-)

[Stuart G]

2. k and r..nt

[Bill USA]

4. just about all of Trump's utterances are utter fantasies. I've never seen anybody so unconcerned

with the truth of what he is saying. Again, he's nothing but a Spoiled Rich kid who grew up getting whatever he wanted and getting away with any - and - everything. He thinks it's perfectly okay if he lies about anything. He really doesn't feel that the rules that apply to everyone else DO NOT APPLY TO HIM.

I wish Hillary would just refer to him as the Total Gas Bag Blow-hard.


The email 'scandal' there's no 'there' there.