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Twitter is ablaze following President Donald Trump‘s firing of FBI Director James Comey.
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Republicans have jumped to defend the front lines, capitulating in order to find a substantive position to hold in favor of the firing, and the Democrats have gone “Looney Toons” leaving no hyperbole unused.
Most fascinating however are those who have compared Trump’s removal of Comey, of the former FBI Director was told by a television, to President Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, and more specifically the Saturday Night Massacre.
Trump's firing of Comey will go down as the Tuesday Night Massacre. Sessions' role in this move adds to the bad odor. Comey knows too much.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 9, 2017
It's the Tuesday Night Massacre. Trump is going FULL NIXON. Remember how that ended? pic.twitter.com/I18iDgozvj
— Shit Gibbon (@LoofaFace) May 9, 2017
Tuesday Night Massacre. We know why Richard Nixon fired Archibald Cox: the president was guilty of obstruction of justice.
— JohnAloysiusFarrell (@jaloysius) May 9, 2017
This is Nixonian. Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein must immediately appoint a special prosecutor to continue the Trump/Russia investigation.
— Senator Bob Casey (@SenBobCasey) May 9, 2017
Sen. Leahy calls Pres. Trump's firing of FBI Director Comey "shocking" and "nothing less than Nixonian."
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) May 9, 2017
.@realDonaldTrump is becoming more Nixonian with every day. #impeachTrump pic.twitter.com/4XtU7Q05Sl
— ca_hockey_girl ???? (@hockeygirl_CA) May 10, 2017
.@realDonaldTrump is becoming more Nixonian with every day. #impeachTrump pic.twitter.com/4XtU7Q05Sl
— ca_hockey_girl ???? (@hockeygirl_CA) May 10, 2017
Dem senators call Trump's firing of Comey "Nixonian" https://t.co/drS8RY86dJ pic.twitter.com/BSTH5KlcGO
— The Hill (@thehill) May 9, 2017
Unfortunately for this version of histrionics, the facts substantiating the comparison of the two situations appear to be “alternative,” and the Richard Nixon Presidential Library wasn’t afraid to troll those who unwittingly used the juxtaposition.
FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian pic.twitter.com/PatArKOZlk
— RichardNixonLibrary (@NixonLibrary) May 9, 2017
Now the rebuttal from the Nixon Library doesn’t explain the investigation aspects of the comparison, but it was quite funny to see the establishment play the Twitter trolling game.
The Nixon Library did clarify that Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy AG William Ruckelshaus quit in protest during the Saturday Night Massacre, they were not fired like special prosecutor Archibald Cox was.
True. AG Richardson and Deputy AG Ruckelshaus quit in protest. Cox was fired. #SaturdayNightmassacre
— RichardNixonLibrary (@NixonLibrary) May 10, 2017
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