По стопам Уотергейта

[tijd.livejournal.com]

В книжке "Fire and Fury" Уотергейт упоминается несколько раз. Один раз в рассуждении о том, как женщины в Министерстве юстиции плетут козни против Трампа. Смешное непонимание с "Писсгейт".

“The DOJ,” the president’s source told him, “was filled with women who hated him.” It was an army of lawyers and investigators taking instructions from the former administration. “They want to make Watergate look like Pissgate,” the president was told. This comparison confused Trump; he thought his friend was making a reference to the Steele dossier and its tale of the golden showers.

Более примечателен эпизод конфликта с Доном Макганом, адвокатом Белого дома, и упоминание Джона Дина.

McGahn, the lawyer whose job was necessarily to issue cautions, was a frequent target of Trump rages. Typically these would begin as a kind of exaggeration or acting and then devolve into the real thing: uncontrollable, vein-popping, ugly-face, tantrum stuff. It got primal. Now the president’s denunciations focused in a vicious fury on McGahn and his cautions about Comey.
“Comey was a rat,” repeated Trump. There were rats everywhere and you had to get rid of them. John Dean, John Dean, he repeated. “Do you know what John Dean did to Nixon?”
Trump, who saw history through personalities—people he might have liked or disliked—was a John Dean freak. He went bananas when a now gray and much aged Dean appeared on talk shows to compare the Trump-Russia investigation to Watergate. That would bring the president to instant attention and launch an inevitable talk-back monologue to the screen about loyalty and what people would do for media attention. It might also be accompanied by several revisionist theories Trump had about Watergate and how Nixon had been framed. And always there were rats. A rat was someone who would take you down for his own advantage. If you had a rat, you needed to kill it. And there were rats all around.



Вчера вечером New York Times сообщили (а другие СМИ вскоре подтвердили), что в июне 2017 Трамп пытался повторить подвиг Никсона с Saturday Night Massacre, но одумался после того, как Макган пригрозил уйти в отставку.

President Trump ordered the firing last June of Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation, according to four people told of the matter, but ultimately backed down after the White House counsel threatened to resign rather than carry out the directive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/us/politics/trump-mueller-special-counsel-russia.html

Точные даты не указываются, но можно предположить, что речь идет о середине июня.