Ever since the 2016 election of Donald Trump, it has been the Democrats who have been total obstructionist. They have block voted all as one with no independent thought and the motivation that they have had was the reliance upon, totally false and made up, information contained within what has now been come to be called the Trump Dossier.
The activities of several top ranking, Justice Department, employees acting on behalf of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign, that are completely illegal completely overshadow Watergate's activities with no potential relationship other than both being politically motivated with respect to achieving giving a Presidential candidate an advantage. Watergate involved a break-in and a coverup, at the Highest levels of Government, but in the case of the Obama Justice department you had felonies covered up and top Justice Department officials in the FBI and, most likely, the Attorney General's office rewrite the wording of an investigation so as to remove all language that would have required an indictment or potentially lead to charges against Hillary Clinton for felonious activities and potential violation of National Security laws.
You also have had wiretap warrants issued by Judges, on American Citizens and members of the Trump Campaign, based upon top Justice Department employees assertion and guarantee that documents justifying the wiretap were legitimate all the while they knew the documents were not only false but financed by Democrat political interest. A false hit piece was actually used and was the primary basis for obtaining the wiretap that including wiretapping of Trump Campaign officials and employees and offices at Trump Tower. Watergate does not come near approaching the illegal and non-constitutional abuse of powers. Not only was Obama's Internal Revenue Service corrupted and politically weaponized against Obama's Democratic political enemies but top officials, or the highest officials, of the Obama Justice Department, were compromised and committed illegal acts and deeds all with the purpose of either defeating Donald Trump in the 2016 political campaign for President or if he won, which he did, providing a political insurance policy to use for potential removal, impeachment, of a legitimately elected President the latter of which is borderline, if not totally, treasonous activities.
Now yet another offense, borderline treasonous, is the Mainstream Media's total abandon of Journalistic practices and ethical behavior (if they ever had any), in not only supporting and reporting on the known false dossier that was purchased and the fraudulent information contained within as if it was legitimate and valid researched information. Additionally, they failed to investigate ties the dossier had to the Democrats and Hillary Clinton specifically, or report on the use of the dossier as primary evidence used in which to obtain, what we now know to be, politically inspired wiretaps against American citizens and employees of the Donald Trump campaign.
In Watergate it was the Mainstream media that was instrumental in taking down the President and holding all those involved accountable as well as discovering information and facts surrounding the event where here they not only turn a blind eye to everything but report on known fraudulent/false information and stories as if they were legit and had a legitimate and unimpeachable source. In Obama's administration, you had the IRS, the FBI, the Justice Department and most of the National Mainstream Media politically weaponized against their political (Republicans and Donald Trump) enemies list and involved in steps that would lead to coverup of the information even back to the coverup of most all information surrounding the Benghazi attack on our Ambassador and Embassy there.
Things, about Benghazi, we still don't know and we still have out there,
- Where was the President during the attack and when did he know about the attack and what actions did he take accordingly? I guarantee you had the attacks happened under George Bush's administration there was no way the Media would not be calling for impeachment if it was Bush that had lied to the American public for two whole weeks after the event when evidence was out there, in emails, that Hillary and the Administration knew that night it was terrorist acts rather than the YouTube video.
- Who issued the stand down orders to our military response units such that they were not called upon to counter-attack and provide protection against the terrorist that were involved in the lengthy and ongoing attack which eventually led to the death of 4 of our State Department employees under Hillary Clinton. Our military not only failed to respond but they were ordered not to when we had resources in place that could have potentially saved two if not all of the lives that were eventually lost in the attack.
- Continual attempts to cover up the real reason for the attack, which was a terrorist attack, by blaming it on an obscure YouTube video that never got any publicity or exposure until the Obama administration used it as the catalyst or reason for the attack on the embassies.
- No accountability, to this day, on Susan Rice's part, Hillary's Part or Obama's part in stating the attack's purpose and the catalyst was based upon the YouTube video rather than terrorist motivation. Outright lies to the American people and the World that went on for two weeks. The lie was not only allowed to go unchallenged, in the Media but no demands for accountability for the deliberate lying to the American people for what was surely politically expedient reasons.
- Even into the 2016 Political campaign Hillary was never challenged on her Benghazi decisions or actions by the Media but was covered and protected from any adverse negative information surrounding the Benghazi attack.
There is much more that could be said and related but I've already taken up far too much time and space.
As for the topic, this is under ... It is ludicrous to believe that Trump wants to shut down the Government and hurt people. It is the Democrats that are 100% against everything that the President wants to do and in being total obstructionist should. bear all blame for any shutdown that occurs and they are not negotiating but rather dictating demands with zero movements on their part. If anyone is desiring a shutdown it's the Democrats so that they, along with their media lapdogs, can blame and put responsibility for a Government shutdown on Trump and the Republicans as if the Democrat politicians never exist or have a say or vote in the process. With 60 votes required, all it would take is 10 Democrats to avoid the shutdown but proof that they are in collusion against Trump lies in their voting as a block vote. At least some Democrats, though, are defecting and indicating a desire to work with Republicans to avoid a shutdown but they (the Democrats that are working with Republicans) are far and few apart.