By AMANDA PRATS<\/p>\n
Unable to resist the allure of a catchy nickname, the writer of a CNN opinion piece wasted no time in dubbing the latest White House controversy \u201cRussiagate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Much of the news media have been quick to draw comparisons between the investigation regarding the apparent communications between the Trump campaign and Russian officials and the Watergate scandal.<\/p>\n
The opinion piece run by CNN argued that it\u2019s time for \u201ca Watergate-style select committee\u201d to investigate the issue. Vox<\/em> published an interview with President George W. Bush\u2019s ethics lawyer, who told Vox<\/em> that, \u201cthe facts now in this investigation are much worse than the facts in the early stages of Watergate.\u201d The Fix, a politics blog for The Washington Post<\/em>, wrote that \u201cNixon\u2019s former attorney sees \u2018echoes of Watergate\u2019 in President Trump\u2019s first month.\u201d<\/p>\n In The Fix\u2019s article, the writer shares that attorney John Dean, who sat before the Senate Watergate Committee, feels an air of familiarity between the current administration and Watergate. In the article, reporter Cleve R. Wootson Jr. writes, \u201cDean said in an interview aired Friday that President Trump’s first month in office \u2014 with its anti-media tirades and efforts to use intelligence agencies for political purposes \u2014 has \u201cechoes of Watergate.\u201d<\/p>\n Following the chronology of Nixon\u2019s presidency, The Washington Post<\/em> piece ended by acknowledging the concern of Trump\u2019s presidency mirroring the ending of Nixon\u2019s, questioning the possibility of impeachment.<\/p>\n The suggestion raised by the question itself could be seen as further evidence of the news media\u2019s rocky relationship with the president; some may argue it was just evidence of wishful thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By AMANDA PRATS Unable to resist the allure of a catchy nickname, the writer of a CNN opinion piece wasted no time in dubbing the latest White House controversy \u201cRussiagate.\u201d Much of the news media have been quick to draw … Continue reading