Saturday Night Massacre Looms For Trump
- Firing Mueller could be the end of 'The Donald'
The historical Saturday Night Massacre is responsible for bringing down the Richard M. Nixon presidency. Now, Donald Trump may be on the precipice of his own ‘Saturday Night Massacre’ and on the verge of causing his own presidency to come crumbling down.
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During the Nixon years, Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox was investigating Mr. Nixon for his involvement in the Watergate break-in. Once Cox started getting too close and learning too much, Nixon ordered him fired and out of the way so as to prevent him from finding out the truth. Nixon petitioned several members of his Justice Department to fire Cox but they each refused and resigned, citing a responsibility to follow the law. Recognizing Nixon’s intent to obstruct justice by firing the man who held damning evidence against him, Republican congressional members told Mr. Nixon that plans to fire Cox had crossed the red line. He was told to resign or else he would be impeached.
Such was Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre.
Now, recent events involving Donald Trump are eerily similar to Nixon’s and the original Saturday Night Massacre of 1973. Let’s examine the similarities.
Special Prosecutor/Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Trump for possible collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Mueller is also investigating Trump for attempting to obstruct justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey and for his attorney’s $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels (a few days before the election) in exchange for her silence regarding her affair with Trump. Now that Mueller has started getting too close and learning too much, Trump wants him fired and out of the way so as to prevent him from finding out the truth. See the connection?
Earlier this week, Mueller’s team was granted a warrant to search the home and office of Trump attorney Michael Cohen. According to Cohen, the FBI agents “were extremely professional, courteous and respectful,” during their search.
“I am unhappy to have my personal residence and office raided. But I will tell you that members of the FBI that conducted the search and seizure were all extremely professional, courteous and respectful. And I thanked them at the conclusion,” Cohen told CNN.
However, Donald Trump escalated the Cohen search by claiming the FBI “broke in” to his office (they didn’t) and by calling the entire Mueller investigation a “witch hunt” and an “attack on what we all stand for.” Trump also added that he now believes “the attorney-client privilege is dead.”
Despite what Donald Trump claims, the Cohen “raid” was not some personal vendetta launched by Mueller. In fact, the steps to obtain this sort of search warrant are extremely involved. Mueller obviously now holds something big regarding Donald Trump — something he was required to take to the US Justice Department for evaluation. However, the Justice Department had to jump through hoops and petition a judge to grant the warrant. In the end, such a search warrant is only granted under EXTREME circumstances. Now, here’s why this is interesting:
1.) The fact the warrant was granted at all is proof positive that Mueller has uncovered a crucial piece of information and that the circumstances did rise to the level of EXTREME.
2.) This is not some Democratic-led political witch hunt as Trump claims, since Mueller is a Republican and the judge who granted the warrant is a Trump appointee.
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The fact that Mueller now holds what is very likely damning evidence against Michael Cohen and potentially Donald Trump has made “The Donald” livid and has him shaking in his boots.
“The investigation is a pure and simple witch hunt that should have been wrapped up long ago,” Trump said on Tuesday.
“The attorney general made a terrible mistake when he did this and when [he] recused himself or he certainly should have let us know if he was going to recuse himself and we would have put a different attorney general in,” Trump continued. “So he made what I consider to be a very terrible mistake for the country.”
Trump then openly discussed his potential plans to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and a few related others. By getting rid of the top officials in the Justice Department as well as the Special Prosecutor/Counsel, Trump believes he could then successfully squash the investigation into him.
The only problem is, that is EXACTLY what President Richard Nixon did and EXACTLY what launched the Saturday Night Massacre and the end of his presidency.
Is Donald Trump about to repeat history?
I got to work early today and I’m glad I did to come to the site and see all this mess going on. The way Trump is starting to look just like Nixon is uncanny. And for anybody who is too stupid to realize it they should know now that Trump is hiding something. Everything seems to be leading back to this lawyer they raided the other day and found all this information Trump didn’t want found. Now he is raising holy hell over it because he is scared. If he fires Muller and everybody in the Justice dept. then it’s all over for him. He will be Nixon all over again. It is almost weird to see history repeating itself like this but I think we are already on the path of no return and there is no stopping it now. I am going to just sit back and… Read more »