Trump’s actions as serious as those that brought Nixon down

If the US president is impeached, as seems likely, his name will be blackened in history, and the scandal may be as big as Watergate, in 1974, says Elizabeth Drew.

US president Donald Trump’s tenure is in peril. He’s likely to be impeached by the US House of Representatives, and it cannot be ruled out that the Senate will vote to convict him and thus remove him from office.