Jerry Nadler’s political theater
Jerry Nadler is lucky he’s got a safe day job, because the political theater he’s planning — hearings on the Mueller report — prove he’d never make it as a Broadway producer.
Act I opens Monday, and get a load of the title: “Lessons From the Mueller Report: Presidential Obstruction and Other Crimes.” Verdict first, trial (if any) later.
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And the star witness is none other than John Dean, White House counsel to President Richard Nixon before turning key prosecution witness in the Watergate hearings.
The “drama” may set Trump-haters’ hearts aflutter, but it won’t do much else.
Certainly not like the Watergate hearings — which were a real investigation into an actual conspiracy and actual crimes. Nadler’s spectacle, despite its title, will focus on no crimes or conspiracy — because special counsel Robert Mueller couldn’t report any.
Indeed, even Nadler’s fallback talk about “the alleged crimes” laid out in Mueller’s report is pure fiction — since Mueller specifically refused to even allege President Trump did anything illegal.
And Dean is all about theater, not substance, because he knows nothing new. He was at the heart of the Watergate criminality, and did time in prison as a result. But he has gone on to denounce nearly every GOP president since as committing offenses “worse than Watergate.” The phrase is even the title of his book on President George W. Bush.
This show is designed to smear the president — and Nadler announced it while Trump was on foreign soil. Despicable.
House Democrats’ Act II comes Tuesday: votes to hold Attorney General William Barr and former Trump White House Counsel Don McGahn in contempt. Team Trump’s “systematic refusal to provide Congress with answers . . . is the biggest coverup” in US history, fumes Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.).
Coverup? The White House gave Mueller unlimited access. Barr testified in the Senate, but refused to play along with Nadler’s unprecedented conditions for House testimony. And Congress has no right to question top White House staff, like the president’s counsel.
What has Nadler & Co. truly upset is that all that probing came up empty, yet much of their base still demands Trump’s head.
Which means next week’s show will be a tragedy — for its producers.
