Carl Bernstein, half of The Washington Post duo that broke the Watergate story, calls Donald Trump's presidency "worse than Watergate." Elizabeth Drew, who covered Watergate for the New Yorker, writes "Trump Is Worse Than Nixon."
Echoing the alarm that led Congress, after Watergate, to create the independent counsel role, some members of Congress have responded to the current worse-than-Watergate sentiment in part by pushing for a law to shield Special Counsel Robert Mueller from being fired before he can complete his investigation of activities involving Trump and a number of his advisors. In April, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.