Now might be a good time to remember the Watergate scandal, wherein five men were arrested for breaking into the DNC headquarters in an attempt to obtain records and ultimately influence the election in favor of the president. While Nixon didn’t directly condone this specific action, he was in contact with the members of his election committee and was well aware that sabotaging, in general, was going on, and very much okay with it. Ultimately, though, his downfall came not because of the sabotaging, but because of the covering up of the sabotaging.

The parallels are to great to ignore. I remember reading All the President’s Men in high school and being appalled by the lengths these people went to influence the election in their favor. At the time I thought those days were behind us but it’s clear now that’s far from being the case.

If Trump doesn’t want to end up impeached or resigning, he should start getting honest about his Russian connection real fast. Either way, everybody needs to start accepting the fact that Russia is clearly trying to influence what’s happening in the US. We need to get our heads out of the “but where’s the evidence??” sand and start an investigation into this so we can find out what’s really going on once and for all.