Watergate & Anusgate: Compare and Contrast

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Watergate & Anusgate: Compare and Contrast

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The essence of Watergate was a sitting Republican president using the powers of state to launch a rouge intelligence operation against the Democratic National Committee.

The essence of Anusgate is a Republican presidential nominee encouraging a hostile intelligence service to launch a Putin-sanctioned intelligence operation against the Democratic National Committee and to use the "product" of that operation to influence the outcome of the American presidential election in his favor.

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President Nixon knew what he was doing and the consequences if his participation in the break-in and subsequent cover-up became public.

Donald Trump had no clue regarding the significance of what he was saying.