Trump haters insist on comparing supposed Trump “scandals” to Nixon and the Watergate scandal.  Giving the critics the benefit of the doubt, i.e. that they are neither ignorant nor stupid, then they must know they are misrepresenting the facts to one purpose, to destroy the Trump presidency.  We are bombarded with Watergate comparisons every day – without facts.  That’s for a good reason.  The facts are not comparable.  For those who aren’t old enough to have experienced Watergate, this may help.  1972 was a presidential election year.  Nixon was seeking reelection.  In June, people connected with the Committee to Reelect the President committed their first crimes.  Follow this.  People who worked in and for the White House and the Committee, many of them lawyers, arranged for men to break into the office of the Democratic National Committee, twice.  They planted listening devices in the office.  So, within two days after the second break-in on June 17, 1972, people connected to the Nixon campaign and White House were under arrest for burglary, illegal wiretapping and conspiracy.  Serious crimes.  Adding to this mess, a number of the burglars were connected to the CIA.  That would have been bad enough, but it got worse.  When the burglars were caught, people in the White House, many of them lawyers who knew better, undertook to raise and pay hush money to the burglars, and to prevent Administration employees from telling the truth when questioned.  On August 1, 1972, the public learned that a $25,000 cashier’s check earmarked for President Nixon’s re-election campaign was deposited in a bank account of one of the five men arrested in the break-in.  Richard Nixon, a brilliant lawyer who knew precisely what he was doing, participated in conversations when plans to pay hush money and to prevent defendants from telling the truth were discussed.  Nixon then ordered the CIA Director to call the FBI and tell them to call off their investigation for national security reasons.  To their credit, the FBI said “No.”  If one reads Nixon’s memoirs, he would have us believe that he spent the months after the break-in simply trying to find out which members of his administration, people at the highest level of the government, were involved in the conspiracy.  That’s simply not credible.  Nixon was no innocent bystander, and even if he started out uninvolved, his actions in condoning financial support of the burglars, and his failure to put a stop to the criminal activity he learned about, made him culpable.  So, in Watergate, we have obstruction of justice, perjury, false swearing, suborning perjury, and a larger conspiracy.  These are all serious crimes.  Within six months of the Watergate break-ins, G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord, two high-ranking members of Nixon’s campaign committee, the men who had planned the burglaries, had been convicted of burglary, conspiracy and illegal wiretapping.  Five others had already pleaded guilty to these charges.  The final toll of the Watergate scandal found at least 40 government officials indicted or imprisoned.  Nixon’s two closest advisors, H.R. Haldeman and John Erlichman went to jail.  White House counsel John Dean went to jail.  Former Attorney-General and Chairman of Nixon’s campaign committee, John Mitchell, went to jail.  Special counsel to the President, Charles Colson went to jail.  Televised Congressional hearings went on for months.  During the hearings, it was revealed that Nixon, like his predecessors in the White House, recorded nearly all his meetings.  The Supreme Court ordered Nixon to turn over the tapes, and the tapes exposed the coverup.  Archibald Cox was appointed as a Special Prosecutor.  One Saturday night in 1973, Nixon fired Cox, prompting the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General to resign.  Finally, facing imminent impeachment, in August of 1974, Nixon resigned.  That was Watergate.  Now we have the Trump witch hunt.  The Obama administration began investigating the Trump campaign for colluding with the Russians almost a year ago.  We know that Obama’s Justice Department got FISA Court warrants, intercepted conversations that involved Americans, and then unmasked the names of Americans, one being General Flynn.  The FBI has been investigating almost a year.   Five Congressional committees have been investigating alleged collusion at least since January of this year.  They have uncovered no evidence of collusion.  Before he was fired, James Comey testified that the FBI had no evidence of Trump campaign collusion with Russians.  About two weeks ago, even Democrat Senator Diane Feinstein admitted there is no evidence of collusion.  Now, we have the appointment of a special counsel, former FBI Director Robert Mueller.  His appointment was motivated by Comey’s post-firing revelation of a personal memo he wrote, in which he claims, in February, Trump told him he thought General Flynn was a “good guy” and that he hoped Comey could “let the investigation of Flynn go.”  In February, Trump actually said publicly that Flynn was a good guy, who had done nothing wrong.  Democrats screamed for impeachment, claiming obstruction of justice, that is, obstruction of an investigation which has produced no evidence of wrongdoing, much less a crime, committed by anybody.  Of course, Comey never mentioned this exchange before he was fired, never reported it to the Justice Department, and never claimed his investigation was being interfered with when he testified.  Morons like the Democrat hack Tim Kaine and senile Republican John McCain made comparisons to Watergate.  You now know why they are nuts. (See above).  Liberal attorney Alan Dershowitz took a different view of the new special counsel, stating that Mueller’s appointment is good for Trump because he will find no crime.  But it’s just like Watergate?  One person who was intimately involved in uncovering the Watergate scandal disagrees.  His name is Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter whose reports told the story of Watergate to the world.  Woodward says there is no evidence supporting a Watergate comparison.  However, there is one coincidental comparison.  Bob Woodward’s principal source of inside information about Watergate was an FBI leaker, Deputy Director Mark Felt, whom a Post official named “Deep Throat.”  Funny that the Trump investigation, the one without any evidence of wrongdoing, has been prolonged and expanded by FBI leaker James Comey and the leaking cohorts that he left behind at the FBI.  Some things never change.