To the editor:

One of the greatest political and historical ironies of all time is the accurate comparison of Richard Millhouse Nixon to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hillary and Nixon’s political teams first crossed paths in the early 1970s during the Watergate Era. Nixon probably did not know of the Watergate Break-In, but certainly knew of the Watergate Cover-up. According to Hillary and the bloodthirsty anti-Nixon cabal, covering up a felony is a felony and therefore Nixon committed “high crimes and misdemeanors” and should be impeached. As the proverb goes, “No man is above the law, especially the President of the United States.” Extremely crucial to the Watergate outcome was that Hillary and her cohorts had a very willing media and press to go after Nixon.

There is no question that Nixon was guilty of a felony. Likewise, there is no question that Hillary is also guilty of multiple felonies and much more. Some would say that the only way for Clinton to win the presidency is for her to go up against an egomaniac, bombastic, and pompous billionaire from New York City who is on his third wife. Others might say that Hillary running against a billionaire who can’t be bought or bullied, an arrogant “arse” who cannot be cowed, is her worst nightmare. Romney, McCain, and Dole would probably lose by a slim margin to Hillary. Trump will either win or lose by a landslide in the Electoral College; it probably won’t be close with the Electoral College votes. Trump is throwing the long ball every down, not just a Hail Mary with the clock running out. He is swinging for the fences with every tweet. He will win very big, or slump lowly back to Trump Towers in defeat.

What do we know that Hillary has done in the last 25 years? We know that she was in charge of covering up the “Bimbo Eruptions” of her husband Bill. We know that any woman who complained about Bill’s sexual harassments, unwanted advances, or even worse, were mercilessly attacked by Hillary and her partners. We know that these accusers were not to be believed according to Hillary. We know that Hillary was part of a presidential administration that used the IRS against their political enemies. This is a crime and this was also part of the impeachment documents against Nixon. We know that Hillary, as Secretary of State, accepted defacto and apparent bribes into the Clinton Family Foundation from countries and leaders around the world. As Secretary of State, the Clinton Foundation accepted monies and thus influence from governments with horrible records on civil rights, human rights, and equal rights.

We know that as Secretary of State, to hide information from Freedom of Information Act laws and thus the American people, Hillary secretly created her own private computer server in the basement of her house in Chappaqua, NY. This home-brewed, vulnerable computer server allowed for top secret, confidential governmental information to be unguarded, unsafe, and thus compromised by our enemies. The creation of an easily penetrable private computer server that does not protect American secrets against espionage from our enemies is a crime! Period. Regardless of the intent, it is a felonious crime; just ask General Petraeus. FBI Director Comey actually had the audacity to say that if someone else would have done this, there would most assuredly be sanctions and punishment. But for Hillary, she was and is apparently above the law. One must also consider that a future President Hillary Clinton is now already in very real danger of blackmail by enemies of the state. Many computer experts now believe that because of Hillary’s private computer server, Russia, China, Iran, and even North Korea have America’s top secrets. Ms. Clinton’s personal paranoia has made us incredibly vulnerable to very bad countries who want to see America’s demise.

Indeed, when everyday Americans believe that there are leaders in our nation’s capital that are above the law, this is dangerous for a democratic republic. When a plurality of Americans believe that the fix was in with the FBI investigation, and the question of an equal application of the rule of law is not apparent, citizens will eventually revolt. When the people believe that the “scales of justice” are not blind and are in fact tilted to the powerful, citizens lose faith in their own government.

One can only surmise how the mainstream media and fourth estate would react to cabinet officials of President Trump doing exactly what Secretary of State Clinton did. What if Attorney General Chris Christie had a private server in his basement, and kept tens of thousands of emails private from the public but easily accessible to our enemies? What would happen if Secretary of Homeland Security Rudy Giuliani’s family were to set up a private, not-for-profit endeavor that took money from countries and their leaders who were racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic? And what would happen if Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s spouse set up a business deal with one of America’s known enemies and in this deal his spouse set up, the enemy country gained access to uranium to help with bombs of mass destruction?

Obviously and rightfully so, the media would be calling for impeachment trials immediately; saying “no person is above the law” and the “scales of justice must be applied to everyone the same, regardless of class or status.” They and we would call for an equal application of justice; especially those in the highest positions of power and responsibility. This is exactly what we did during the early 1970s during the time period called Watergate. The late former Senators Howard Baker and Sam Ervin (and probably even Nixon) would be asking today, “What in the world happened to our America?” They and we know that America can do much better than this.

Andrew William Coy, Fort Myers