Do you think that Trump has moved kind of Watergate into second position or 20th position in terms of scandals? He's facing criminal charges for falsifying business records, the Hush money Stormy Daniels case in Manhattan. How do people look at this and say there's no pattern? I don't know. People are tolerant of his behavior because they have to believe he is not him.
From the verdict in Trump’s sexual assault case to the Santos indictment and the Supreme Court saga, scandal is rife in Washington. Today we turn to the OG: Watergate, as examined in the new HBO series, “White House Plumbers.” Writers and creators Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory and director David Mandel discuss how the show compares to their last collab (“Veep”), trace a line between the blind allegiance to Nixon in the 1970s and the “Big Lie” of 2020 and contemplate what a Trump scandals series may look like 50 years from now would be like (think: Timothée Chalamet as Rudy Giuliani).
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