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The Wednesday Night Massacre<\/b><\/p>\n

The battle between Trump and America is joined<\/b><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

February 14th<\/sup>, 2025<\/i><\/p>\n

Some of you may remember the Saturday Night Massacre. It was the turning point of the Watergate scandal in 1973, when it was revealed that Richard Nixon had taped his conversations in the Oval Office\u2014which would likely include conversations pertaining to the break-in at Democratic Headquarters in the Watergate hotel and subsequent conversations about the cover-up of the crime and possible White House complicity.<\/p>\n

The special prosecutor investigating the case, Archibald Cox, promptly issued a subpoena for the tapes. Nixon refused, and ordered Cox to drop the subpoena. Cox refused. Nixon then ordered the Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, to fire Cox. Richardson refused and resigned. Nixon then ordered the assistant attorney general, William Ruckelshaus, to fire Cox. He refused and resigned. Finally, Nixon found a willing toady in the contemptible Robert Bork who said, in effect, oh, hey, master, no problem! Cox is gone. Bork went on to become a hero to the morally bankrupt conservative movement, even getting nominated to the Supreme Court before people remembered who he was.<\/p>\n

The fiasco pretty much sealed Nixon\u2019s fate. Americans hadn\u2019t yet been subjected to 50 years of right wing propaganda designed to erode their confidence in democracy, freedom, justice and themselves. They realized that Nixon\u2019s behavior was not that of an unjustly accused president, and his support plummeted.<\/p>\n

Now here we are not one month into the most criminally capricious and ethically destitute administration in US history, and an even bigger massacre has taken place.<\/p>\n

Eric Adams is the mayor of New York City, and he is a piece of work. He was, at best, a shady cop for many years, and rose to captain. He retired, got elected to the state senate, then became Brooklyn borough president, and then ran for mayor, winning handily against an inept vigilante.<\/p>\n

Adams\u2019 ethics, if he ever had any, vanished, and by 2024 he had been indicted on federal charges of bribery, fraud, and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. He was the first mayor to face federal charges while still in office.<\/p>\n

Then Trump got elected, and set about destroying rule of law. After Matt Gaetz flamed out, he picked his second-best alternative, Pam Bondi, to run the Justice Department. (Yes, she was sloppy seconds to Matt Gaetz, so don\u2019t get your hopes up.) The DoJ immediately became what Trump claimed it was when it was prosecuting him: corrupt, incompetent, and politicized. (Trump ALWAYS accuses others of being what he is himself).<\/p>\n

Trump needed scapegoats who couldn\u2019t fight back to blame the country\u2019s problems upon, and immigrants are his version of the Jews under Hitler. He was delighted that Eric Adams shared his views and wished to punish people in order to make it look patriotic. Eric Adams wouldn\u2019t be much use in prison. So he told Bondi to make the charges go away, just like he did with hundreds awaiting trial for January 6th<\/sup>, and she passed word down to one of her flunkies, Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, to make the case go away. Emil, no hero, passed word down to one Danielle Renee Sassoon, who was appointed the acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York by Trump just the month before. Bove claimed that the charges against Adams, a Democrat, were politically motivated. (The charges were brought under Merrick Garland during the Biden Administration.) Bove no doubt presumed that Sassoon would be as corrupt, nuts and\/or servile as all Trump\u2019s other appointments.<\/p>\n

Well, turns out she isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

She wrote a seven page lette<\/a>r detailing why she could not follow Bove\u2019s orders to drop the case against Adams, and resigned effective immediately. Starting to sound familiar?<\/p>\n

It turned into an avalanche. According to an MSN report, \u201c<\/i>According to a person briefed on the matter, after Sassoon refused to dismiss the case, the Trump administration directed John Keller, the acting head of the Justice Department’s public corruption unit, to do so. <\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cKeller also resigned on Thursday, two people familiar with the matter said. Kevin Driscoll, a senior official in the department’s criminal division, has also resigned, one of the people said.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cThree other deputies in the Justice Department’s public corruption unit – Rob Heberle, Jenn Clarke, and Marco Palmieri – also resigned on Thursday over the orders to dismiss the Adams case, a person familiar with the matter said.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Wow. This already makes the Saturday Night Massacre look like an office spat over nuking popcorn in the microwave and stinking up the place. Seven resignations on principle, and counting.<\/p>\n

An army of skunks couldn\u2019t stink up the place the way Trump has.<\/p>\n

More resignations are expected as all the decent people get out, leaving the Justice Department (and our dependence on a fair and just legal system) in the hands of obedient strutting swine and toadies. Good luck, America. I\u2019ll probably end up in Gitmo for writing this.<\/p>\n

Mind you, the massacre 52 years ago took place when lack of evidence made the entire Watergate case a matter of \u201che said she said.\u201d Many people sided with Nixon in good faith. That\u2019s not the case here.<\/p>\n

Bove\u2019s order to Sassoon made it clear that there was a fiddle in the case. Again, according to MSN: \u201c<\/i>Sassoon said the memo Bove wrote directing the case be dropped makes clear Adams is being granted leniency in exchange for assisting the federal government with its immigration priorities, citing a meeting Jan. 31 that she, Bove, Adams\u2019s attorney and members of her office attended.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2018Adams\u2019s attorneys repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the Department\u2019s enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed,\u2019 Sassoon said in the letter Wednesday.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow reported that the order was to dismiss the charges against Adams \u201cwithout prejudice\u201d which, Maddow explained, meant that they were to be suspended rather than dropped entirely, and would be left hanging over Adams\u2019 head for as long as he was in office and carrying out Trump\u2019s pogrom against immigrants for him. No hint of coercion there, right?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 52 years since the Saturday Night Massacre. Since then, Americans have been subjected to a half century of endless propaganda designed to erode American confidence in democracy, freedom, justice and self-respect. The Massacre effectively ended Nixon. Will this end Trump? With a corrupt Court and servile, cringing Republican congress? Will the public finally rise up against this criminal?<\/p>\n

When the right decided to avenge Watergate and end the American experiment, they probably didn\u2019t think it would culminate in Donald Trump, already known back then as a vicious and unreliable clown.<\/p>\n

But their cause is a broken and twisted one, so it\u2019s no surprise their hirelings are broken and twisted people.<\/p>\n

All the decent people in the Justice Department are getting out. What remains are swine and lower than swine.<\/p>\n

Good luck to all of us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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