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In a hyperbolic segment for MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday, co-host Joe Scarborough went all in comparing President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey to the firing of U.S. Attorneys by Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal. He proclaimed that in the wake of Trump’s decision, “The capital is filling with echoes of Watergate...”
The taped report aired early in the 7 a.m. ET hour and began with Scarborough ominously recalling: “The order from the commander-in-chief, fire the investigator....Richard Nixon believed the executive could overpower the institutions designed to keep his presidency in check....In the end, he destroyed the public’s confidence, hollowed the presidency, and tarnished his legacy forever.”