It was nearly 53 years ago that Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire special prosecutor Archibold Cox. Richardson refused and resigned, effective immediately. Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshous to give Cox the ax. Ruckelshaus likewise refused and like Richardson, resigned in protest.
Thus was lit the fuse that burned through the Watergate coverup which led in turn to Nixon’s own eventual resignation. Known as the Saturday Night Massacre, it sparked public outrage that Nixon was never able to overcome.
Now we have the firing of federal prosecutor Maurene Comey in Trump’s own seemingly desperate attempt to keep from the public information contained in the Epstein files that Attorney General Pam Bondi insists don’t exist after saying just a couple of months ago that the files were on her desk.
I may be getting nostalgic in my old age, but I can’t help but feel that the firing of Comey bears a striking resemblence to what occurred half-a-century ago. The question then is this: are we about to witness a similar erosion of trust that took nearly two years to finally bring Nixon down now begin a slow but certain march to a similar fate for Donald Trump?
Nixon was a master politician but even he couldn’t survive the “cancer on the presidency,” as John Dean described it to Nixon at one point. Trump, too, is a survivor, a master at turning certain defeat into victory but can he dodge yet another bullet when even his own MAGA base seems to be turning on him over this issue? They are convinced there’s something in those Epstein files that “don’t exist” and they’re equally convinced, as are a lot of Democrats, that Epstein did not commit suicide in that jail cell. Trump calls those people stupid. That might not wear well with the Maghats.
If Trump is not on those files or client list or whatever it may be, it would seem reasonable that he would want the information out there. After all, he campaigned with that as one of his central issues. But if his name is somewhere in that “non-existent” information, he certainly would have every reason to want it kept from the public.
It’s only right that people are demanding straight answers.
Louisiana Voice 
I, too, would like to think that there is a similarity between Nixon and Trump. But the days during the Nixon era were different times with different people. Back then, there were Congressmen and members of the Supreme Court who understood the rule of law and had backbone. No massive political appointees in the cabinet and the government who swore to follow the leader, a la Trump. More cognizant voters. Today, Trump has the reins firmly in his hands and controls far more than Nixon ever did. And, God help us, he is far, far more crooked than the man who proclaimed, “I am no crook.”
Trump and the fascists in his administration have devised their strategy. With a little more repetition of ” radical Democrat hoax” from Trump all of MAGA will soon believe Obama and Clinton and Comey and Biden have so doctored and corrupted the “Epstein files” that only some official court records and maybe some other documents can be released. He’ll offer no evidence of this and none will be asked for. MAGA fascists haven’t needed evidence at least as far back as WMDs in Iraq when they were still pretending to be “principled conservatives.” And because Trump has no ethics, morals, or principles of any kind he’ll release something that names names so MAGA will have a target, which won’t be Trump and he’ll slide right out of yet another accounting. His voters will be satisfied, congressional cowards will be spared, and MAGA fascism will keep goosestepping on. I have often said change is inevitable and that in all the history of the world no one has ever succeeded in stopping it. You can roll with it or get rolled over by it. Those are your only two choices. Change is upon us but it’s not for the better. I’ll be damned if I’m going to roll into the future with fascism. If I (we) can’t stop it then it can damn well roll over me. I don’t want that future.
First I have inside information-from a man-“Big Pimpa” convicted of tax fraud and promoting prostitution-who was doing time in the MCC in Brooklyn when Jeffrey Epstein expired. He says definitively that Epstein died by his own hand. Enough of using the hands of underage females.
Second its fine to fantasize about the demise of Pres. DJ Trump.However there are significant differences between the decline of Richard Nixon and dilemma of the present occupant of the Oval Office. First Nixon initiated a crime. Trump is merely enmeshed in a swamp of sleaze of his own creation. Trump lives and breathes sleaze. If he hasn’t victimized a similar number of tender age females as Epstein, he wishes he had. And the number of women he has abused and disrespected likely is comparable. An excellent book was written about all the president’s women. My guess is that Trump will wend his sleazy way through the current pornography. However having fomented the MAGA flock. Whipped up their ignorance and paranoia-my guess is that some trained sniper may have better aim than the young genius in Butler Pa.