State Dept. IG Was Probing ‘Phony’ Trump Emergency Declaration That Justified Selling Weapons to Saudi Arabia, Lawmaker Says

President Donald Trump announced Linick’s termination in a federally-mandated letter to Congress over the weekend–leading critics to run with one of their favorite cultural reference points: the Watergate scandal’s Saturday Night Massacre, a series of firings that added at least two kilograms of kerosene to Richard Nixon’s internal conflagration at the White House in the fall of 1973.