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Russia is Trump's Watergate. Will he react like Nixon?
March 17 at 7:11 PM
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The chain of events that got started with the discovery of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election has led to investigations by the FBI and two bipartisan congressional committees. Questions have been raised about possible cooperation of Trump associates with the Russians.
Those questions, as with the Watergate queries that dogged Nixon, won’t go away. Neither will the pressure from Congress and the media for answers, not just carefully crafted talking points.
As was true with Nixon and Watergate, the nature and extent of President Trump’s involvement with Russia hangs like a ghost over his presidency.
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His unfounded charge that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential campaign was as scurrilous as it was unnerving.
That the president of the United States would make such an explosive public accusation without evidence calls into question his credibility and trustworthiness.
What if Trump, under intense pressure from all sides on Russia, decides to shift the focus to his commander-in-chief role and orders a shift in our military posture in response to a manufactured foreign crisis?
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The chain of events that got started with the discovery of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election has led to investigations by the FBI and two bipartisan congressional committees. Questions have been raised about possible cooperation of Trump associates with the Russians.
Those questions, as with the Watergate queries that dogged Nixon, won’t go away. Neither will the pressure from Congress and the media for answers, not just carefully crafted talking points.
As was true with Nixon and Watergate, the nature and extent of President Trump’s involvement with Russia hangs like a ghost over his presidency.
<snip>
His unfounded charge that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential campaign was as scurrilous as it was unnerving.
That the president of the United States would make such an explosive public accusation without evidence calls into question his credibility and trustworthiness.
What if Trump, under intense pressure from all sides on Russia, decides to shift the focus to his commander-in-chief role and orders a shift in our military posture in response to a manufactured foreign crisis?
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/russia-is-trumps-watergate-will-he-react-like-nixon/2017/03/17/86255c12-0a93-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html?utm_term=.44fc4a67fc56
