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| Robert Swan Muller III |
Doar served as special counsel, (1973-74), to the House Committee on the Judiciary investigating the Watergate scandals leading to three Articles of Impeachment.
There was significant Republican hesitancy to impeach Richard Nixon but all three impeachment articles drew Republican support, leading ultimately with other acts of corruption to Nixon's resignation.
The service to our country hastening the demise of Nixon is a testimony to the meticulous and fair-minded Doar supported by committed staff, a principled judiciary, investigative journalism and mass citizen action.
Today, the House Judiciary Committee is populated by hacks, dolts, evangelicals, racists and unreconstructed segregationists who make a serious impeachment inquiry of the deranged President* Trump unthinkable.
We can expect nothing from Judiciary Committee or any other Republican-led House committee; and the appointment of anyone approaching John Doar is unthinkable.
Robert S. Mueller III, United States Department of Justice
Fortunately, the current preeminent investigation of Trump headed by Robert S. Mueller III, United States Department of Justice, appointed May 17, 2017 is proceeding apace in a manner that would do John Doar proud.
The immense public trust that Mueller has assumed in heading the Trump-Russia investigation is focused on "Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and related matters."
Mueller is acting in a manner beyond reproach, and thus we can expect today's toxic brand of Republicans to engage in character assassination of Mueller and every human resource involved in the probe, starting with the FBI.
It's begun this weekend, following report after report of covert Russian interference in the presidential election of a target country, the United States.
The coming Republican assault against the rule of law will make Trump's late October fuming over indictments appear a boo at a football game by comparison.
As citizens we are placed in a position in which we will called upon to act in defense of our country supporting the Mueller investigation against a rightwing political death squad, the scope of which our nation has never seen with a president who is emotionally disabled, displaying clinical symptoms with potentially devastating consequences.
Gaming out scenarios it's likely we will have a new president, perhaps a new vice-president in 2019. Consider what would Donald Trump do in retaliation before then?
Trump is not moored by normal concerns of public servants.
Now, it's the time to back the rule of law and act against corruption. It's distinctively possible that within 18 months we will be facing a president effectively holding America and the world hostage.
We need an aroused citizenry supporting Robert Mueller.
Without engaged Americans, driving Nixon from office would never have happened, and Donald Trump is much more dangerous than Richard Nixon.
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