Here's a Pertinent Tweet to the Mueller Testimony:

[MineralMan]

Link to tweet

Headline from 45-year-old NYT story:

NIXON REJECTS SUBPOENAS, TELLS RODINO HE WILL GET NO MORE WATERGATE DATA

[empedocles]

1. The ghosts of Watergate - they keep a-coming.

[MineralMan]

2. There are lessons it it, for those who take the time to look for them.

All too often, the lessons go unlearned.

[redstatebluegirl]

10. You don't know where you are going if you don't know where you have been.

[calimary]

16. Good one.

[forgotmylogin]

23. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. (n/t)

[CloudWatcher]

27. History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes

"History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes" ... author unknown, but often misattributed to Mark Twain

[tinrobot]

14. He even has a framed Nixon letter in the Oval Office.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/310052-trump-to-hang-nixon-letter-in-oval-office-report

[calimary]

17. Hah! Nixon letter framed on the office wall.

A copy of “Mein Kampf” on the nightstand. What more do you need?

[iluvtennis]

20. Ditto.

[Karadeniz]

22. Just oblivious.

[First Speaker]

3. Nixon didn't have the Supreme Court on his side. Trump does.

...and God help us if they act on that fact...

[MineralMan]

4. We can't really be certain how the current SCOTUS will

rule on constitutional issues like this. I wouldn't predict.

[jaysunb]

5. Agreed

I continue to believe Roberts will be the final firewall.

[RVN VET71]

21. No one knows for certain about Roberts

Not even Roberts knows. He "saved" the ACA, but then turned around and all but declared that racism was over -- when he agreed to the gutting of the voting rights act.

Still, he's got to be concerned about legacy and must know that doing the right thing, in cases involving the Trump so-called Administration, might cause him some flak from the current RW extremists populating the Republican Party, but that history will paint a happier, maybe even heroic picture of him for doing so.

So, yeah, I give it slightly more than a 50% -- maybe 60% -- chance that Roberts will choose to do the right thing. Less than 50% that he will do so for the right reasons, however.

[VOX]

30. Or a 24/7 dedicated disinformation "news" network.

Stocked with jingoistic, flag-humping, far-right “personalities” to push each day’s presidentially approved talking points, and —value added— to throw bombs repeatedly at the opposition.

[Blanks]

32. Nixon appointed 4 of the justices himself...

He thought they were on his side

[spanone]

6. K&R...

Nixon was a petty thief compared to trump.

[DonaldsRump]

7. Yup, and this was the third Article of Impeachment passed

by the House Judiciary Committee in July 1974.

What's past is prologue.

[pdsimdars]

8. Well, how can you expect a man who can't think or read to learn lessons from history?

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. It was history that decided Nixon's resignation, I read.

Nixon cared about his legacy and how he would be portrayed in history, so when he was told that there were enough votes in
Congress to impeach him, he chose to resign. ( He WAS also drinking heavily).

trump cares about not being seen as a loser, no matter what it is about. He has no ability for reflective thought, for weighing the pros and cons. Money and winning and being seen to be powerful is what drives him.

[murielm99]

9. I am glad people are unearthing these

Watergate similarities. I have been haunted by the echoes lately.

Thank you for doing the research.

[Fla Dem]

11. WOW! Talk about history repeating itself. This whole thing is getting weirder by the day.

[B Stieg]

12. Pertinant Blast from the Past!

It's been at least 30 years since I've thought the name "Peter Rodino," but I remember it all too well!
THX, MM!

[usaf-vet]

13. From another website today. This article might explain why Trump ignores lesson from the past.

Trump is a hedonist is the point of the article:

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/a-famous-psychologist-explains-the-anomalous-mindset-behind-trumps-bizarre-incoherence/|

"what we can be sure of is his [Trump's] present hedonism—or living in the moment with no interest in either the past or future.

Decisions are made on the spur of the moment with little thought of future consequences, and without regard to whether or not they were effective in the past."

[MineralMan]

15. That's true, no doubt.

Donald J. Trump is not a thoughtful man. He is not a man who considers things carefully. Instead, he is a stupid, nonintellectual, narcissistic man.

[watoos]

18. What's the point of the thread, I'm slow?

Trump is rejecting subpoenas with no intention of winning them. He wants to tie them up in the courts until he is reelected.

Now if Democrats were into an impeachment hearing they could call the rejection of these subpoenas, obstruction of justice. If Democrats were into an impeachment hearing they could call on the courts to expedite their decisions. If Democrats were into an impeachment hearing they could demand that Barr turn over to Congress the grand jury testimony that he said he would provide.

Democrats aren't into an impeachment hearing, they are working on an infrastructure bill.

[MineralMan]

19. It's, you know, hard to explain.

It involves, like, history and stuff like that.

Sorry I can't help...

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. or, as I saw on the inter-tubes recently:

"I can read it for you
but I can't understand it for you."

[MineralMan]

31. Yes, exactly.

[jayschool2013]

24. History rhyming again

Mark Twain with Charles Dudley Warner:

"History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends."

[elias7]

25. And Impeachment hearings began exactly one wek later, May 9th

[MineralMan]

26. Yup.