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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]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,281 posts)The Nixon administration people involved in Watergate were professional, even in their criminality. Trump's bunch, in contrast, are a collection of Keystone Kops who can barely put their own pants on without help. I think the sheer incompetence of the whole sorry gang will be their undoing because they don't know how to do an effective coverup. Trump and his minions are used to running a collection of closely-held businesses with little oversight to prevent them from doing pretty much whatever they wanted to do, however they want to do it. They didn't have to cover up much of anything because nobody was watching.
The GOPers in Congress have to be aware that Trump's WH is a dumpster fire, but they'll back him up for awhile because they believe he'll sign (without reading) whatever legislation they hand him. So would Pence, or course, but the problem the GOPers have at this point with abandoning Trump is that he's been in office for only two months - and most of them have been supporting him enthusiastically, at least since he won the nomination. It would be very hard for them to do a volte-face so soon, partly because it would mean admitting they were wrong in the first place for supporting him, and partly because there are still a base of Trump supporters in their districts that they'll have to report to, and soon, for House members. Trump's support is down to about 37% now, but it's a committed 37%. So I think we'll see the GOPers stick with him for awhile - right now there would have to be something like Nixon's "smoking gun" tape to change the minds of most of them.
But maybe there is a smoking gun, and it will be discovered. We can hope.