Dick Morris: Trump Should Go On The Offensive Against Mueller!


Morris raises some excellent points in this provocative video. Trump should investigate the Mueller team first!

Addendum: I’ve never liked the amoral Dick Morris. But his specific observations in this video regarding Mueller and his hit team seemed to me very astute advice Trump should consider in going on the offensive, otherwise it will be the Nixon “Saturday Night Massacre” déjà vu and the lead up to impeachment.

The Saturday Night Massacre

Congress had passed legislation providing for an independent special prosecutor to investigate Watergate. Nixon Attorney General Elliot Richardson appointed his former Harvard Law professor Archibald Cox. Cox was the epitome of a card-carrying member of the Ivy League, Northeastern seaboard, anti-Nixon liberal Establishment. He had served as JFK’s 1960 campaign speechwriter and later as Kennedy’s Solicitor General in the Justice Department.

Among those present at the ceremony of Cox repeating his oath of office were two longtime friends, Senator Edward Kennedy and his sister-in-law Ethel Kennedy, widow of Attorney General Robert Kennedy, under whom Cox had served.

Eliot Richardson himself came from the liberal Rockefeller-wing of the Northeastern Establishment, and was chosen by Nixon to placate these elements.

Nixon was deeply suspicious of Cox and his motives in widening his investigation beyond the Watergate break-ins and cover-up, and with good reason: of the thirty-seven lawyers Cox recruited, all but one were Ivy Leaguers, eighteen from Harvard; most were Democrats; many had worked in the Justice Department under Bobby Kennedy or Nicholas dfB. Katzenbach who succeeded Kennedy. They were determined to get Nixon.

On October 20, 1973, Nixon ordered Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson refused and resigned. Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Rucklehaus to fire Cox, Rucklehaus refused and was fired. Nixon then ordered the acting Attorney General, Solicitor General Robert Bork to fire Cox, which he did.

The nation was outraged by this series of impromptu actions. Bumper stickers soon emerged around the country proclaiming — IMPEACH THE COX SACKER!

Nixon then appointed Leon Jaworski as Special Prosecutor.

12:23 pm on July 30, 2017