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I am acutely aware that we’re likely still some distance away from determining potential guilt or innocence in the “Russia thing” investigation involving Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

However, I want to ask something out loud: When might there be some Republican “heroes” emerging to tell the president that they’ve had enough of his lying; they have had their fill of the controversy that threatens to swallow the presidency whole?<\/p>\n

The Watergate comparisons keep coming forward. President Nixon got ensnared in a coverup of the break-in at the Watergate complex in June 1972. Democrats, quite naturally, were raising a ruckus almost from the beginning. Republicans then remained more or less silent even as evidence of the coverup began to reveal itself.<\/p>\n

Then the dam broke. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the president had to release tape recordings of White House conversations. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment.<\/p>\n

It was then that a delegation of Republican<\/em> members of Congress trooped to the White House and confronted the president.<\/p>\n

It fell to Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Arizona Republican, to tell Nixon that he had no support in the Senate once the House impeached him. He wouldn’t withstand a trial. The president’s list of supporters didn’t include Goldwater, the senator told him.<\/p>\n

Nixon resigned shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

Are we heading to that point with Donald Trump? I have no clue.<\/p>\n

However, the evidence of a cover-up keeps mounting in this case as well. Moreover, former aides and key advisers are talking openly about a president coming unhinged over the barrage of negative publicity.<\/p>\n

And the president is lashing out at what he calls “fake news,” and uses Twitter to hurl bizarre insults at former allies who’ve become foes.<\/p>\n

Where are the GOP heroes who are going to say, “Enough is enough”?<\/em><\/p>\n

We need not get all the way to an impeachment deliberation for those heroes to emerge.<\/p>\n\n

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