It’s a long way from Comey to Watergate

Though many are comparing Trump’s sacking of the FBI director to Nixon’s infamous ‘Saturday Night Massacre’, the political landscape is very different now, writes Sean Wilentz

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey is unprecedented, as is much of what Trump has undertaken as president.

Despite similarities with then president Richard Nixon’s infamous “Saturday Night Massacre” 44 years ago, during the Watergate scandal, the political situations are utterly different.