Clinton campaign manager on Trump: "Parallels to Watergate are eerie"
The Hill
February 15, 2017
By Max Greenwood
Reports that President Trump campaign aides communicated with Russian intelligence officials show remarkable parallels to the Watergate scandal, Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager, Robby Mook, said Wednesday.
"It is extremely strange to me that a member of any American campaign would be speaking to Russian intelligence officials," Mook said in CNN.
"And it's particularly bizarre, given the fact that we know that Russian intelligence officials broke into the (Democratic National Committee), stole documents, and handed them to WikiLeaks for the purpose of hurting Hillary Clinton and helping Donald Trump."
"The parallels to Watergate here are eerie, I have to say." he said.
The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at DNC offices and snowballed into a nationwide cover-up scandal, ultimately bringing down President Nixon.
Mook also argued that each new development in the Trump saga gets "closer and closer" to the President himself.
The New York Times reported Tuesday that members of President Trump's campaign repeatedly communicated with Russian intelligence officials in the year before the presidential election.
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