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In reply to the discussion: If you are over 60, or studied Watergate at length...Does this feel like Watergate ? [View all]underpants
(182,788 posts)I just wanted to get that out there first.
I've read every comment on this thread and wanted to comment.
I'm about to turn 50 so I was very young but my interest in politics has lead me to learn about Watergate. My actual recollection of Watergate was being over at a friend's house and his father was sitting in a dark room watching a floor model TV in the middle of a sunny afternoon. I asked what he was doing and my friend said, "something about politics".
As with many things today we skip over the first steps or root. The fact that the absurd claims of wire tapping were part of the testimony today is a perfect example. Those who've followed this story know the origin (Levin-Breitbart) and that it's been fully discredited AND Whay the hell is the POTUS commenting on a NOTHING article from a partisan political mouthpiece? THE ROOT of this is that there are a remarkable number and depth of contacts between the small bubble of people around Trump and a Former KGB operative who runs a major adversary. That's what's scary about this to me.