Nixon, Clinton et Trump

Nixon, Clinton et Trump ont tous les trois eu en à découdre avec des enquêtes qui pouvaient éventuellement mener à une procédure de destitution. Chales M. Blow compoare ici les différents comportements des trois présidents. L'exercice est intéressant même si Blow omet de préciser des éléments de contexte qui permettent ici à Bill Clinton de paraître un peu plus "limpide".

 "And, I don’t believe Trump is going to confess as Clinton did, or resign as Nixon did, regardless of what Mueller finds, whom he prosecutes or what he says in a report.

 Trump lies about almost everything, but one thing that he says is true: He is a fighter. But he’s not a fighter because he is fearsome or brave. Valor has no relationship to the man. Trump fights for vanity.

One of Trump’s greatest fears and greatest insecurities is being embarrassed and being exposed. Trump is petrified that someone will remove the mask he has been crafting for seven decades, or of having it be revealed that that mask is made of paper rather than steel."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/opinion/nixon-clinton-trump.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region