Everyone is comparing Trump to Nixon — now with 100% more Henry Kissinger!
UPDATE: May 10, 2017, 11:46 a.m. EDT Donald Trump met with Henry Kissinger, national security advisor and secretory of state under Richard Nixon, on Wednesday, which, you know, we felt we needed to include.
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Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday despite the bureau being in the midst of an investigation into the connections between the Trump administration and campaign to Russia.
Put another way, Trump fired the guy in charge of the investigation that some believe will end with his impeachment.
That's not normal, though it's also not unprecedented. Another president fired the person in charge of investigating his administration: Richard Nixon.
Almost immediately after Trump fired Comey, the Nixon comparisons began — particularly around the "Saturday Night Massacre." That's the night in which Nixon fired the special prosecutor assigned to investigating what would eventually come to be known as the Watergate Scandal. After the firing, the attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned.
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Someone running Nixon's presidential library's Twitter account even tried to stamp out the comparisons with a not-so-fun "fun fact," completely missing the parallels.
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Wave high to all the children in a distant future reading about this moment in their history books.
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Jason Abbruzzese is a Business Reporter at Mashable. He covers the media and telecom industries with a particular focus on how the Internet is changing these markets and impacting consumers. Prior to working at Mashable, Jason served as Markets Reporter and Web Producer at the Financial Times. Jason holds a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University and an M.A. in International Affairs from Australian National University.
