Donald Trump's behavior is 'eminently Nixon-ian,' former deputy assistant attorney general says about MuellerReport
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report shows President Donald Trump’s behavior is “eminently Nixon-ian,” former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Elliot Williams said Thursday.
“Everything about Don McGahn in this report is incredibly striking, because of the incredibly awkward position that the president puts McGahn in repeatedly,” Williams said, detailing information about the president’s interactions with McGahn laid out in the document. McGahn “was in a position to tell the president ‘no’ and that seems to be the cardinal sin in this White House,” the legal expert argued.
“It doesn’t stretch logic to find that you also had a president who was verging on paranoid of all the institutions of government, and the people around him, and his attorneys, and his national security community and on and on and on,” Williams explained. “And so, there is eminently Nixon-ian behavior here that we’re seeing,” he asserted.
“You know who else was concerned about leaks, Richard Nixon,” Toobin said. “And he set up a group called the Plumbers – get it plumbers, leaks – and it was illegal. And it was one of the reasons he was impeached and the idea that being frustrated by leaks is exculpatory is exactly backwards.”
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