From the Watergate break-in

[SHRED]

To Nixon resigning.

What? 2 years?

And this is way more complex with way more players.

Ugh.

[WheelWalker]

1. Things happen much faster today. A thousand times more complex... a billion times faster.

[pnwmom]

7. Complicated legal cases still can take years. The FBI won't put bring charges

till they're dotted every i and crossed every t.

[spanone]

2. i think trump is bus loads crazier than nixon...

with trumps short fuse and the media demands for quicker and quicker news cycles...this may go a lot faster than watergate

[renegade000]

3. Well Trump isn't as smart or restrained as Nixon...

Much of the damage this week has been self-inflicted. He's not getting any smarter or less impulsive...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Watergate was actually very complex.

The burglary was only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. The investigation ultimately revealed a web of money-laundering schemes that were created to come up with money to pay for dirty tricks that included bugging the offices of political opponents, and clandestine investigations of activist groups and politicians using the FBI, the CIA and the IRS. 69 people were indicted, and eventually 48 of them were found or pled guilty. One reason it took so long to get Nixon out of office was that he took the issue of whether he had to produce the tapes all the way to the Supreme Court. It wasn't until the court ordered him to turn over the "smoking gun" tape that impeachment seemed to be inevitable.

Trump/Russia seems to be moving a lot faster right now, but it is also extremely complex, involving foreign entities. What might cause a resolution to happen sooner than Watergate is the fact that where Nixon was clever and careful, Trump shoots from the hip and doesn't seem to understand that there are times when he should just shut up rather than basically admit to obstruction of justice.

[murielm99]

6. Yes, it was. Very complex.

And I was a Watergate junkie. I hardly slept during that time. I would watch the hearings on PBS until I was loopy with fatigue, stumble off to bed, and go to work the next day. I did the same thing, day after day.

I worked with a group of educated, informed people. We were librarians who catalogued and processed books and AV materials for twenty-two school libraries. Everyone, no matter what their political affiliation, was equally interested in the Watergate proceedings.

When he resigned, we obtained a tv from the school library in our building and watched Nixon 'copter away from DC. We went back to work. You could have heard a pin drop a block away.

On a side note, I was just thinking about some of the dirty tricks today. Remember Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, and the break-in at his office?

[LeftInTX]

10. After this week,

I'm convinced that the only way the Republicans in the House and Senate will do anything is if he starts firing them. I know it can't be done, but sooner or later Trump may actually try. Only then, will they wake up.

[SHRED]

5. All good points!!

[Foamfollower]

8. If Trump equalled Nixon, he would resign on August 8, 2018.

[dalton99a]

9. Trump is a pathological nutcase and normal logic doesn't apply to him or his actions

I doubt he can be persuaded to resign like Nixon