Jim Clyburn: WH Stonewalling Dems Is ‘Bigger Than Watergate’

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House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s attempted obstruction in the Russia probe and his administration’s stonewalling of Democrats’ inquiries is “bigger than Watergate.”

Clyburn told MSNBC’s Craig Melvin that the White House’s refusal to comply with Democrats’ inquiries into Trump’s tax returns and Trump’s attempts to meddle with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe amounted to a “crisis situation.”

“Anytime you have such divisions between the branches of government, as we have between the executive and the legislative, and looking for the judiciary to step in and moderate or navigate—help us navigate through this, that’s a crisis situation,” the majority whip said. “It may not be as big as a lot of the crises that we’ve had as a nation, but this is bigger than Watergate was.”

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  1. Bigger than Watergate by at least one order of magnitude.

  2. At this moment, a White House staffer is trying to stop Orange Julius Caesar from Tweeting “My White House scandal is biggest in history of our Great Country! Even Angry Dems admit.”

  3. What’s “bigger than Watergate” is the Russia attack on America. I mean, the watergate break in doesn’t even show up on the scale of “importance” when compared to the Russia attack.

    What’s “bigger than Watergate” is Trump’s efforts to cover up the Russia attack. While Nixon’s efforts to cover up the Watergate break in and related crimes was important, it pales in comparision to Trump’s cover up.

    What’s not “bigger than watergate” is Trump’s efforts to cover up the cover up. Nixon did the exact same thing, including making numerous claims of exective privilege to stymie investigations for as long as possible.

    The stonewalling isn’t appreciably “bigger than watergate”. It only appears that way to the congresscritters whose oversight prerogatives are being ignored by Trump.

  4. Previous advice given and not taken by the occupant

    “DO NOT CONGRATULATE”

  5. Good to see the rhetoric is starting to match the reality. Not only is the crime and cover-up worse than Watergate, but the naked power grab from the executive branch represented by their refusal to allow Congressional oversight is a constitutional crisis the likes of which we have never seen in modern US political history.

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