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Doyle McManus: It's beginning to smell a lot like Watergate

Give Richard M. Nixon credit: When he set out to sabotage his opponents in a U.S. presidential campaign, at least he hired Americans for the job.

President Donald Trump outsourced his dirty tricks overseas, asking Ukraine to help destroy former Vice President Joe Biden.

It has landed Trump in a Watergate-size world of trouble.

The 37th president's path to his ignoble resignation may be the best guide we have to the possible future of the 45th - although that doesn't mean the two scandals

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