Simple question: Is this crisis worse than Watergate?

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106. It's much worse, because it involves foreign collusion with an avowed enemy.

I am a mature woman born during the height of the Cold War and ante-Communist McCarthy era witch hunts. The majority of U.S. citizens have had an outright hatred, fear and eventual skepticism about the former Soviet Union and the acts and events following the installation of Putin has reenergized the growing concern over this klepto-autocrat's motives, which were only klieg-lighted during the recent U.S. election, and now, this past election in France. Most are now concerned with the upcoming elections in Germany.

Trump and the people with whom he's surrounded himself have deep ties, most of those financial ones, but also dubious allegiances to this foreign country. Trump himself egged on Putin to meddle in the election and was Julian Assange's most ardent cheerleader, who basked in the WikiLeaks revelations. Most people believe those WikiLeaks revelations were supplied by Russian hackers. It's clear that the FBI/Justice Department were investigating the ties between Trump's people (which includes his own son-in-law and perhaps his entire adult extended family for all we know) were being investigated with purported indictments having been issued and dropped on the very day he sacked the investigation's director. In my mind there is no question that this move, following a couple of weeks of public testimony by Comey, Yates and James Clapper, was predicated because the investigation was getting too close for comfort for Trump so he ham-fistedly fired the lead investigator and spokesperson in the investigation with lame excuses that seemingly were ginned up to bi-partisan support.

Nixon's Watergate crap was a case of Executive Branch (and Justice Department) overreach, and a subsequent coverup. Those things were egregious in and of themselves, but they were of a domestic nature that did not involve a longstanding adversary acting as a conduit of information, misinformation, political hacking and, perhaps, blackmailing principal members of the new government, perhaps all the way to the top of the chain in the Oval Office and members of his family.

That is why this is far, far worse than Watergate. This is outright treason at the highest level of government and of a most sinister and deeply, deeply frightening nature. This must not be allowed to continue or to stand unmet by challenge and prosecution where deemed appropriate, including but not limited to impeachment of Trump, his removal and prosecution for these acts.

I am not optimistic that it will happen and I am deeply frightened for the continuation of our constitutional government.