TRUMP & NIXON

Richard Nixon, for those who remember the best used car salesman America had – until Donald Trump came along – was re-elected in a landslide in 1972 and was riding high on what seemed to be a tide of unassailable popularity. The came Watergate, as it came to be known. Which actually came before; it was just that it took a while for the public to know about it and for the public’s support for Nixon to fatally bleed away.

What happened was that operatives for the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP, it was called) had among other things broken into offices located in the Watergate Hotel complex, which is Washington, not far from the White House, ostensibly to gather dirt on prominent Democrats, as by installing bugs on phones and filching through files inside the offices of the Democrats. The so-called burglary was bungled. Or at least, it was found out. Whether Nixon had ordered the burglary or even knew it had been ordered is something the historians continue to argue about. What is known – because Nixon can be heard on tape discussing it – is there was an attempt to cover it all up. This ultimately did Nixon in. He was forced into ignominious early retirement.

Is Trump headed for the same?

Maybe – and maybe not. It is not 1974 anymore and America is a very different place. Nixon had to flee because of something that, today, would be regarded with indifference by most Americans. Some underlings working for him broke into the offices of the political opposition. And? Well, Nixon lied about it. For that he had to go. We live in an America that has gotten so used to lies most Americans no longer know what the truth is – or care, for that matter.

Probably on account of fatigue and a sense of what’s-the-point? JFK was blown away in living color and they are still lying about that today. Also the truth about the USS Liberty – a truth that cannot be mentioned because of course it would be “anti-Semitic” to do that.

The Chimp and his underlings lied serially – about things far more serious. About “weapons of mass destruction” and mushroom clouds.” Lied the country into cheering a war that caused the deaths (and life-altering maiming) of thousands of Americans, not to mention many times more Iraqis.

The truth about the event that provided the pretext for that – Nahhhhnlevven – has yet to be fully, officially, dealt with. People – most people – just accept the lies, shrug and motor on.

Will this time be different?

Maybe. Maybe not. The difference, this time, is that most people are personally revolted by the kind of allegations wafting around right now. Nixon was a crook, certainly. The Chimp was – is – a psychopath. But what is a man who says he would not date a woman younger than his daughter, whom he also said is “hot” and a “piece of ass.” He said the “hot” part when Ivanka was 16. Also that “If I weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father . . .”

Now he is saying his supporters are stupid – and worse – for asking why Trump seems so personally bothered about the Epstein stuff, whatever that turns out to be. Not even Nixon called his supporters stupid. At least not publicly.

It is reasonable to state that Trump is trying very hard to cover something up – just like Dick did, all those years ago. He’s angry and defensive. He’s trying – hard and obviously – to shift attention away from the Epstein stuff to Obama stuff. To Schiff stuff. To anything that will get his supporters in particular to stop asking about the Epstein stuff. This fact alone is strongly persuasive that there is something to the Epstein stuff that Trump wants kept under wraps.

Nixon might have avoided that ignominious walk of shame to the helicopter waiting to whisk him away from the White house if he’d just held a press conference a year or so prior and told the truth. The truth was not so bad. A group of people working for him did something illegal he didn’t approve and didn’t even know about until after-the-fact. Here are their names. They have been fired and the matter has been referred to the Justice Department for investigation and prosecution. Thank you very much. That would have been the end of Watergate rather than the end of Nixon’s second term. Assuming, of course, it was the truth that Nixon didn’t order the break-in or even know about it until after the fact.

So why doesn’t Trump hold a press conference and do essentially what Nixon ought to have done in the months after his 1972 re-election?

Here is everything the federal government has with regard to the Epstein stuff. Not just the “grand jury stuff.” All the files, the hard drives and CDs. We have redacted the names of the victims but here are the names of the men who did the victimizing. All of them. See for yourself. See that while I knew Epstein, I did not know about – much less participate in – what Epstein was doing with regard to the exploitation of young women. I had nothing to do with it.

That’s what it may take for Trump to avoid Nixon’s walk of shame. If, that is, enough Americans still care about the truth.

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