Commentary: How Trump beats Nixon
by David Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times
Feb 05, 2018
3 minutes
The political crisis now confronting the United States is not the worst since Watergate. It is the worst since the Civil War.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that President Donald Trump is waging a relentless, self-preservation-driven campaign to discredit the core of our justice establishment and to unseat anyone he sees as a threat.
This is not to minimize the damage Watergate did to America. Richard Nixon oversaw an illegal effort to gain electoral advantage and then
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