Comey firing isn’t Trump’s Watergate

There are no Bernsteins or Woodwards among today's journalists capable of taking down a U.S. presidency.

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired James Comey, seen here, as director of the FBI. Angelo Persichilli writes that this will not turn into a Watergate-type situation.Photograph courtesy of FBI

Opinion

BY ANGELO PERSICHILLI

May 15, 2017

TORONTO—“In Firing Comey, Did Trump Unleash the Next Deep Throat?” This question was the headline of a story last week on The New York Times. Since Donald Trump’s victory last year, there are many politicians and pundits expecting the new president of the United States to fall und...

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