Jerry Nadler’s Trump-bashing show is a bust
By Post Editorial Board
June 10, 2019 | 8:00pm
“You’re here as a prop. You’re functionally here as a prop because they can’t impeach Donald Trumpâ€: Hand it to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for cutting to the heart of John Dean’s testimony Monday before the House Judiciary Committee.
Chairman Jerry Nadler has to put on a show of pursuing President Trump because the party’s left wing demands it. But Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t let Nadler go to impeachment hearings because she knows the broader public will see it as a partisan outrage.
Pelosi’s bid to appease the extremists runs to quotes about how she wants to see Trump “in prison.†Nadler, meanwhile, must resort to, yes, props.
John Dean was President Richard Nixon’s loyal flunky until the Watergate prosecutors got the goods on him. He then flipped, testifying against other conspirators before heading off to prison for his own crimes.
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