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    Commentary: President Trump is his own wiretap

    by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times May 22, 2018 3 minutes

    Watergate happened in audio. Bless his patriotic soul, President Richard Nixon generously bugged his own offices and tapped his own phones. It was Nixon's own unmistakable voice, conspiring on dirty tricks and putative obstruction of justice, that checkmated him.

    President Donald Trump is also his own wiretap, and he may yet checkmate himself. But he uses another medium, another form of speech and another genre to wreck himself. Trump's chronic self-incrimination - most of it, anyway - is not audio; it exists in tweets and on TV.

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