Watergate. Mar-a-Lago-Gate. What’s the Difference?

It’s just two months since the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in which eventually led to the only time that a President ever resigned. And while Donald Trump can’t resign, unless he’s elected in 2024 and then resigns, the parallels between what happened back then and what’s happening now are just too uncanny to be ignored, even if they are being completely ignored by the Fake News.

The seeds for Watergate were planted in 1971, when The New York Times published the ‘Pentagon Papers’ which had been swiped from a secure government archive by then-RAND military analyst Daniel Ellsberg. This resulted in the formation of a group within the White House known as the ‘plumbers,’ whose task was to find and plug such leaks.

Now recall that Trump, like Nixon, was also obsessed with leaks. As early as 2017, Trump instructed the then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to initiate a broad investigation to find out how the Fake News was getting fed ‘illegal’ government information about confidential goings-on within the White House. Neither the work of the plumbers or the work by Jeff Sessions turned up anything at all.

Back to Watergate. In 1972, the head of the plumbers, an ex-CIA agent, Howard Hunt, was authorized by then-Attorney General John Mitchell, to shift his group’s focus away from White House leaks and begin to engage in secret, intelligence-gathering operations against the Democratic Party that could be used by Nixon’s re-election campaign.