Wow! A common phrase seems to be repeated by our president. Bigger than watergate. This phrase has been used to describe multiple things, especially a new upcoming situation. “Trump and his critics actually agree on something. If a column he read in a magazine is correct, he wrote on Twitter on Thursday, “this is bigger than Watergate!” May he was thinking of something different than his peers when they use the same phrase!?! Trump was referring to what he deems a conspiracy that is “out to get him.” Now the historical context of this is the priority of the situation as, “watergate has long been the touchstone for modern American scandal, the mountain of misconduct against which all others are judged. In the 44 years since Richard M. Nixon resigned, virtually every political investigation has been likened to the one that brought down a president, the suffix “gate” applied to all sorts of public flaps, no matter how significant or trivial. But rarely has the comparison been as intense and persistent as during the 16 months since Mr. Trump took office — a comparison deployed by both sides in hopes of shaping the narrative of wrongdoing. What started out as an inquiry into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election has mushroomed into questions of perjury, obstruction of justice, conspiracy, abuse of power, illicit spying, hush money, tax fraud, money laundering and influence peddling. Mr. Trump’s theory of this conspiracy is definitely out against him by some investigators who have gotten in trouble. Two former members of the team working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, wrote text messages that expressed political views critical of Mr. Trump. Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. director, was fired for not being forthcoming with an inspector general looking into his conduct.
The bigger-than-Watergate analogy is one of the most overused phrases in American politics. To hear some tell it, "Chappaquiddick, Iran-contra, the Keating Five, Whitewater, the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal and the C.I.A. leak case were all worse than Watergate." George W. Bush’s whole presidency was “Worse Than Watergate,” so the historical analysis becomes very clear, as this “Bigger than Watergate” is becoming almost, a… common trend, to say amongst presidencies...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/us/politics/watergate-trump-russia-inquiry.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=sectionfront
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