Trump-Russia is more like Iran-Contra than Watergate.

The Intercept has a pretty good article showing the parallels between Iran-Contra, Watergate, and Republican cover-ups today.

https://theintercept.com/2017/12/20...urd-but-the-gop-has-been-lawless-for-decades/

During the Iran-Contra affair of the mid-1980s, Ronald Reagan almost certainly committed impeachable offenses. Specifically, he had, in violation of the Arms Control Act, approved the sale of weapons to Iran in 1985. After the story broke, the independent counsel named to investigate it was Lawrence Walsh, a stalwart Republican who’d previously been appointed to various high-level positions during the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations.

It didn’t matter. As it became clear that Reagan was vulnerable, and his underlings had engaged in a massive cover up to protect him, Walsh was ferociously attacked by his own party. The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times denounced him, as did members of the mainstream media anxious to demonstrate that they’d turned over a new, less-liberal leaf.

By the end of 1992, Walsh had discovered that Reagan’s successor, George H.W. Bush, had likely committed his own impeachable crimes while concealing his role in the scandal. But Bush, on his way out the door after losing to Bill Clinton, pardoned six convicted or indicted Iran-Contra defendants. “George Bush’s misuse of the pardon power,” Walsh later wrote, “made the cover up complete.”

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This is exactly what is happening to Robert Mueller right now. The party that supported him for years is ready to throw him overboard, in order to protect a president they know is guilty of obstruction of justice and abuse that dwarfs that of Nixon.

While we should expect that while there will likely be other findings and indictments by Mueller, the GOP are going to do everything they can to make the story about the investigation itself, rather than the crimes it uncovers.

They will do everything they can to prevent Trump from being held accountable -- at least as long as they're the majority, don't be fooled.

But if Republicans were certain that Republican presidents were innocent, they knew that Clinton, as a Democrat, was inherently guilty. All they needed to do was figure out exactly why.

The New York Times got the ball rolling with its preposterous coverage of the Whitewater scandal – which did indeed involve minor crimes, but none committed by Bill or Hillary Clinton. Republicans seized upon Whitewater to demand an independent counsel.

Clinton’s attorney general, Janet Reno, chose Robert Fiske, a Republican who’d been appointed U.S. District Attorney by Gerald Ford. Unfortunately, Fiske failed to produce the right results: The Clintons had not improperly tried to influence bank regulators in Arkansas, nor had they murdered White House counsel Vince Foster. The Wall Street Journal decried “The Fiske Cover Up.”

There was only one solution: another, more disciplined Republican independent counsel. Two GOP-appointed judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia replaced Fiske with Kenneth Starr. Starr produced results after a mere four years, having somehow expanded the Whitewater investigation to cover Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. Clinton’s impeachment was overseen by Newt Gingrich and Dennis Hastert, an enthusiastic adulterer and child molester, respectively. (The Whitewater probe was eventually wrapped up in 2003, nine years after it started, by a third Republican counsel, Robert Ray.)

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Again, sound familiar?

The Clinton's are cleared by an FBI investigation, but the GOP has pushed for it to be reopened because it didn't reach the conclusion they demanded. So, it has been reopened, as well another one into the Clinton foundation itself. Not because they really believe anything criminal happened, but so they can use the investigation as a distraction from their own corruption.

The problem isn't just Trump, it's the whole GOP and the mindset of being able to commit serious crimes in high office, and using political games to engage in cover-ups to protect their own asses. That's why it's important that the accountability for Trump be laid right where it belongs: at the front door steps of the RNC.

The GOP is the most hollow, corrupt institution in this nation.

Kobie said:

The GOP is the most hollow, corrupt institution in this nation.

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Yes, it is a disgusting body of creatures.

I hope that if/when Democrats get control of the oversight committees in Congress, they investigate the **** out the Trump gang, the whole RNC, and start fighting fire with fire.

Kobie said:

The GOP is the most hollow, corrupt institution in this nation.

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So true. Notice how when the Democrats got a super majority they didn't decide to investigate Republicans.

I can't believe the Whitewater probe went on for 9 years.

And it far worse than that. Most of the conservative judges on the court voted to defend Texas' anti-sodomy law in a case where a gay man was arrested for having sex in his own home.

The GOP is in many ways like an American version of the Taliban. Gay-hating, religious hypocrites and war mongers.

MovingPictures said:

Yes, it is a disgusting body of creatures.

I hope that if/when Democrats get control of the oversight committees in Congress, they investigate the **** out the Trump gang, the whole RNC, and start fighting fire with fire.

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Given that they gave the entire Bush administration a pass for ... well, basically everything, I have zero faith in them to hold these ****ers accountable.

SonOfDaedalus said:

So true. Notice how when the Democrats got a super majority they didn't decide to investigate Republicans.

I can't believe the Whitewater probe went on for 9 years.

And it far worse than that. Most of the conservative judges on the court voted to defend Texas' anti-sodomy law in a case where a gay man was arrested for having sex in his own home.

The GOP is in many ways like an American version of the Taliban. Gay-hating, religious hypocrites and war mongers.

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It's time to start investigating them like they investigate us.

Democrats, stop playing pansy ass nice guy games when you get the majority, and start fighting your enemies that wish to destroy everything your base believes it.

Get a damn spine once and for all, we're tired of waiting.

MovingPictures said:

It's time to start investigating them like they investigate us.

Democrats, stop playing pansy ass nice guy games when you get the majority, and start fighting your enemies that wish to destroy everything your base believes it.

Get a damn spine once and for all, we're tired of waiting.

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but BIPARTISANSHIP! Fixing the GOP's trainwrecks requires being above the fray!

**** that. Next time the Democrats have the high ground, bring the ****ing thunder.