
"We are facing a constitutional crisis potentially larger and more significant than Richard Nixon's 'Watergate,'" writes Reich. "As long as Donald Trump remains president, our governing institutions are threatened." (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Are There 22 Patriotic House Republicans?
Trump warning to former FBI Director James Comey against leaking anything negative about him--tweeting "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"--is deeply troubling.
The core issue here is not whether Trump is secretly recording his meetings or telephone calls (Trump and his White House aides refuse to say whether he tapes his visitors, something he was suspected of doing when he was in business in New York).
The real issues are these: