Patrick Buchanan: Unlike Nixon, Trump Will Not Go Quietly
By Patrick J. Buchanan | December 15, 2017 | 4:46 AM EST
On Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Nixon bowed to the inevitability of impeachment and conviction by a Democratic Senate and resigned.
The prospect of such an end for Donald Trump has this city drooling. Yet, comparing Russiagate and Watergate, history is not likely to repeat itself.
First, the underlying crime in Watergate, a break-in to wiretap offices of the DNC, had been traced, within 48 hours, to the Committee to Re-Elect the President.
In Russiagate, the underlying crime — the "collusion" of Trump's campaign with the Kremlin to hack into the emails of the DNC — has, after 18 months of investigating, still not been established.
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