Forty-six summers ago, Dean broke with Nixon in testimony before Sam Ervin’s Senate Watergate committee, propelling Nixon down the path toward impeachment. (Dean’s 2004 book about Bush: “Worse than Watergate.”) He called Trump “Nixon on steroids and stilts” well before special counsel Robert S. Mueller III reached his conclusions. But even a casual association of Trump with Watergate serves Democrats’ purposes, because Watergate remains the gold standard of presidential scandals. “Was it worse than Watergate? Trump repeatedly declared Hillary Clinton’s email flap to be “many times worse than Watergate.” Now, he’s saying that investigators’ surveillance of his campaign is “worse than Watergate.”The current situation is worse than Watergate — not necessarily in the illegality (history will judge that), but in the way the political system handles the investigation.

Source: Washington Post June 11, 2019 00:00 UTC