President Trump on Sunday compared special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation to former Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s (R-Wis.) search for communists in the U.S. government in the 1950s.
“Study the late Joseph McCarthy, because we are now in period with Mueller and his gang that make Joseph McCarthy look like a baby!” the president tweeted. “Rigged Witch Hunt!”
……
The tweet came amid a flurry of tweets early Sunday criticizing The New York Times for a report that Trump said implied White House counsel Don McGahn must be a “John Dean type ‘RAT.’ ”
The Times reported that McGahn had grown concerned that Trump was preparing to set him up for a fall over the issue of possible obstruction of justice, and gave more than 30 hours of testimony to investigators.
“So many lives have been ruined over nothing – McCarthyism at its WORST!” Trump said in one of those tweets, referring to the special counsel’s investigation into Russia’s election meddling and possible collusion between the president’s campaign and Moscow.
…….
- Discussion
-
Trump: Mueller makes Joseph McCarthy "look like a baby" https://t.co/9JNT9i1ldO pic.twitter.com/SQfSqx3OD6
— The Hill (@thehill) August 19, 2018
Which books on this period do you recommend most from your studies? https://t.co/1OUieeVssF
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) August 19, 2018
I do a lecture on Joe McCarthy every year and the only thing I've change is to add one sentence acknowledging that Roy Cohn was Trump's mentor. The students both times have been wide-eyed in shock, as they do not know that Trump and Cohn were contemporaries. https://t.co/eJAmPnTvoI
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 19, 2018
Already an alcoholic, McCarthy turned even more to his drinking. In May 1957, he died of a liver condition. He was just 48 years old.
McCarthy's hatchet man Roy Cohn lived on for a while, though, and eventually found a new guy to advise. pic.twitter.com/6mVfFfqrBw
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 19, 2018
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) August 19, 2018
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.