We need not take Bob Woodward's word for it: The murky Trump-Russia suspicions are still far, far from the constitutional crisis that was Watergate, the scandal that took down Richard Nixon's corrupt presidency and sent some 20 of his associates to jail.
Even so, exaggerated claims have flourished in the days since President Donald Trump sacked the preening FBI director, James Comey.
Firing Comey was reminiscent — vaguely — of Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre in October 1973, when the top two Justice Department officials resigned rather than carry out the president's order to dismiss Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor.
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