Robert Reich | Trump Can Do More Damage Than Nixon. His Impeachment Is Imperative

29 September 19

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29 September 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WHO WILL STEP UP FOR RSN? Who will be the ones that say, "I will support this project." These are the Reader Supporters, the stalwarts, the engine that drives this publication. It's not easy, but these are not easy times. Come on Reader Supporters! In gratitude. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Robert Reich | Trump Can Do More Damage Than Nixon. His Impeachment Is Imperative Robert Reich, Guardian UK Reich writes: "Amid the impeachment furor, don't lose sight of the renewed importance of protecting the integrity of the 2020 election." EXCERPT: The difference between Richard Nixon’s abuse of power (trying to get dirt on political opponents to help with his 1972 re-election, and then covering it up) and Donald Trump’s abuse (trying to get Ukraine’s president to get dirt on a political opponent to help with his 2020 reelection, and then covering it up) isn’t just that Nixon’s involved a botched robbery at the Watergate while Trump’s involves a foreign nation. It’s that Nixon’s abuse of power was discovered during his second term, after he was re-elected. He was still a dangerous crook, but by that time he had no reason to inflict still more damage on American democracy. Trump’s abuse has been uncovered 14 months before the 2020 election, at a time when he still has every incentive to do whatever he can to win. If special counsel Robert Mueller had found concrete evidence that Trump asked Vladimir Putin for help in digging up dirt on Hillary Clinton in 2016, that would have been the “smoking gun” that could have ended the Trump presidency. READ MORE Rudy Giuliani. (photo: Al Drago/Getty Images) ALSO SEE: US Special Envoy to Ukraine Resigns After Giuliani Implicates Him in Ukraine Scandal: Report Rudy Giuliani: Ukraine Sources Detail Attempt to Construct Case Against Biden Ed Pilkington and Andrew Roth, Guardian UK Excerpt: "In the explosive whistleblower complaint released this week, in which an intelligence official sounds the alarm over Donald Trump's effort to solicit the help of Ukraine in his bid for re-election, one name is repeated: Rudy Giuliani." READ MORE Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton speaks at Georgetown University on Friday. (photo: Win Mcnamee/Getty Images) State Dept Intensifies Email Probe of Hillary Clinton's Former Aides Greg Miller, Greg Jaffe and Karoun Demirjian, The Washington Post Excerpt: "The Trump administration is investigating the email records of dozens of current and former senior State Department officials who sent messages to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email, reviving a politically toxic matter that overshadowed the 2016 election, current and former officials said." READ MORE Sergey Kislyak prior to a Trump address in Washington D.C. on Feb. 28. (photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Told Russian Officials in 2017 He Wasn't Concerned About Moscow's Interference in US Election Shane Harris, Josh Dawsey and Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post Excerpt: "President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries, an assertion that prompted alarmed White House officials to limit access to the remarks to an unusually small number of people, according to three former officials with knowledge of the matter." READ MORE Sheriff's Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal. (photo: Harris County Sheriff's Office/Twitter) Houston Shaken by 'Cold-Blooded' Killing of Pioneer Sikh Sheriff's Deputy Emily Shugerman, The Daily Beast Shugerman writes: "Sheriff's Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal gained national attention in 2015 when the Harris County Sheriff's Office allowed him to become one of first Sikhs in the country to wear a traditional turban and keep his beard long in accordance with his faith." READ MORE Here's how Illinois tenants are fighting back. (photo: Mr Doomits/Shutterstock) Defending Immigrants When Their Landlords Use ICE Against Them Elizabeth King, In These Times King writes: "While the Trump administration has orchestrated a brutal crackdown on immigrant rights, Democratic politicians have passed laws that provide some manner of protection to undocumented immigrants." READ MORE Pollution. (photo: David McNew/Getty Images) The EPA Fired These Air Pollution Scientists. They're Meeting Anyway. Emily Holden, Grist Holden writes: "An advisory panel of air pollution scientists disbanded by the Trump administration plans to continue their work with or without the U.S. government." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation