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The perpetrators were trying to bug the offices
and Nixon attempted to cover up the crime using government resources.
Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, merely used a personal
server to receive and send emails as Secretary of State. While her decision to
use a personal server was a bad one, it is hardly a crime and that is what the
FBI declared in July when the agency declined to charge her with a crime.
Fast-forward
to October and Hillary again finds herself in Republican crosshairs as Donald
Trump and his deplorable supporters continue to call for her arrest after the
FBI reportedly found three emails related to the email
investigation on a device belonging to Anthony Weiner.
As
NBC’s Pete Williams reported soon afterward, none of the emails
were sent by Clinton or her campaign, nor were these emails hidden
by Clinton or her campaign.
In
fact, the FBI has only just begun investigating the emails and a conclusion
won’t be reached until after the election and all the signs suggest the FBI
will find nothing criminal about these emails either.
Yet
Donald Trump continues to yammer on to his supporters about how this is an
“October surprise” that should derail Hillary’s campaign and that her emails
are worse than Watergate.
Yeah,
he totally thinks this situation is worse than the biggest political scandal in
American history.
But
former U.S. Attorney Nick Akerman vehemently disagrees.
Akerman
was a prosecutor who worked on the Watergate case, so if anyone can compare a
scandal to Watergate he’s the one to ask.
According
to a statement provided to Mic, Akerman wrote that FBI Director James Comey
acted inappropriately by writing a letter to Congress informing them of the new
emails because they haven’t even been reviewed yet, which means Comey didn’t
even bother getting all of the facts before giving Republicans something to
whine about only ten days before Election Day.
But
Akerman saved the real ass-whooping for the Republican nominee and compared him
to a past Republican who is just as disgraceful as Nixon.
“Donald
Trump’s statement that this is bigger than Watergate is totally absurd,”
Akerman wrote. “There is no evidence of any violation of law. For Trump to
reach that conclusion based on a total lack of evidence is reminiscent of the
innuendo spread by Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s.”
That sound you just heard is the sound of all
the heads of Trump supporters exploding.