Donald Trump pire que Richard Nixon

Je défends l'idée que la présidence Trump est pire que celle de Richard Nixon depuis les premiers mois. Élizabeth Drew couvrait le Watergate pour "The New Yorker" et elle parvient à la même conclusion. Pour ma part je réfère à l'ensemble de l'oeuvre et aux nombreux angles sous lesquels on peut trouver des comportements douteux à cette administration, Mme Drew s'attarde ici au seul choix de Donald Trump pour diriger la justice.

 "But rather than follow the regular order, as Nixon had, President Trump selected as acting attorney general a lackey who had been chosen as chief of staff to the attorney general because of his TV appearances as a private citizen in which he echoed the president’s position on the special counsel’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election. Among other things, he’d parroted Mr. Trump’s obsessive line, “There was no collusion.” It has been broadly assumed that this man would, one way or another, end the special counsel’s investigation.

Whether, as some legal scholars argue, Mr. Trump’s choice was unconstitutional, since the new acting attorney general has never been confirmed by the Senate, or was simply unwise since his choice was blatantly self-serving, the differences in the ways the two presidents have approached getting rid of an inconvenient prosecutor are informed by their different backgrounds."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/opinion/trump-worse-nixon.html