William D. Ruckelshaus, the acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, deputy attorney general in 1973, and administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 1970 to 1973 and 1983 to1985, points out that President Trump is acting with a desperation he's seen only once before in Washington: 45 years ago when President Richard M. Nixon ordered the firing of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox.
He states that in some ways, Trump is conducting himself more frantically than Nixon, all the while protesting his innocence.
The people in this country who are fighting to keep our hierarchies alive are stopping at nothing, evidenced by supporting this man and his swamp. They are disparately trying to hold back the tide of change, a movement so strong that it takes no less than these Trump measures.
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