Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Firing Mueller and Shades of Nixon

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December 19, 2017 at 2:42 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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Over at the Plum Line, Greg Sargent has an interesting conversation with historian Julian Zelizer about Watergate and the current Trump-Russia investigation. They make the important point that the entire mass-audience Republican-aligned media -- Fox News, the talk shows and the rest -- simply didn't exist during Richard Nixon's presidency, and think about what effect the difference would make if Donald Trump does fire special prosecutor Robert Mueller.

Certainly, Fox News and the others have been working hard to erode trust in Mueller, in his investigation, in the FBI, in the Justice Department and in the courts.