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For many months, the liberal media had been warning us President Trump had the country on a crash course with a constitutional crisis because of his anger at the special counsel investigation. Arguably, chief among those doomsday soothsayers was CNN’s Carl Bernstein who has been comparing Trump to Nixon and Watergate since former FBI Director James Comey was fired. But during an appearance on Anderson Cooper 360 Tuesday, Bernstein had an update: “We’re in a constitutional crisis.”
To continue his theme of drawing parallels between President Richard Nixon and President Trump, Cooper wanted now how close we were to another Saturday night massacre. “Carl, just in terms of reporting that the President is considering firing Deputy Attorney General Rob Rosenstein, do you feel like we are on the verge of a Saturday night massacre here?”
Asking that question was the epitome of beating a dead horse because CNN has been declaring such massacres since Trump fired Comey.
“We’re in a constitutional crisis,” Bernstein immediately proclaimed. “The President of the United States has made clear to those around him and those closest to him in the White House and among his friends, that he is determined to shut down the investigation.”
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