Uploaded May 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Donald Trump recently fired James Comey, the former director of the FBI, and many Americans are saying that this is a cover up to stop any investigation between Trump's campaign and Russia. Many have compared this to Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre in 1972.
On this episode, with the help of Keith Hughes from HipHughes History, we will dive into what Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre was, how it affected the Watergate investigation, and how it compares to Trump firing Comey.
Read more about this:
cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/james-comey-firing-trump
usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/05/09/full-text-trump-letter-comey-firing/101491982
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
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Donald Trump recently fired James Comey, the former director of the FBI, and many Americans are saying that this is a cover up to stop any investigation between Trump's campaign and Russia. Many have compared this to Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre in 1972.
On this episode, with the help of Keith Hughes from HipHughes History, we will dive into what Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre was, how it affected the Watergate investigation, and how it compares to Trump firing Comey.
Read more about this:
cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/james-comey-firing-trump
usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/05/09/full-text-trump-letter-comey-firing/101491982
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
SUBSCRIBE to HipHughes History!
youtube.com/user/hughesDV
Facebook: http://usahistory101
Twitter: twitter.com/usahistory101
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