In what looks like the scandal of Russia and Trump to Watergate, the case that caused the fall of Richard Nixon

Sessions was a senator before being proposed by Trump to the position of attorney general.

It was a warning addressed to US President Donald Trump of those who can go two ways: "Hey Donald, a tip: coverups do not get easier as they go along."

What's striking is that whoever threw that Twitter advisory on Wednesday was John Dean, White House legal counsel during the presidency of Richard Nixon, the president who resigned in 1974 over the Watergate scandal.

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And as the Trump government now faces its own controversy over revelations of contacts of men close to the president with Russia, Dean's public council seemed to be mordant.

It happened just when it was discovered that brand-new US Attorney Jeff Sessions had talks with the Russian ambassador in Washington last year, which he avoided mentioning in January when he was sworn in under the Senate.

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Under enormous pressure, Sessions appeared before the media this Thursday.

Under strong criticism, Sessions declined on Thursday to participate in any investigation into the 2016 election campaign, including the alleged interference that Moscow had - according to US intelligence officials - in the election seeking to favor Trump.

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Sessions denied that his talks with the ambassador were related to the campaign.
The case of contacts with Russia has already led to the resignation of Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, after he was informed that he had also communicated before joining Moscow's ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
All this has led Dean and other Watergate insiders to compare the current political situation in Washington in those years. But how far are they alike? 

"The hypervelocity"

"What I see or hear are echoes of Watergate," Dean himself said last week on Democracy Now !, a local newscast. "We do not have Watergate 2.0 yet, but we have something that is starting to look like it could go there."

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The Watergate scandal erupted after a breakout at the Democratic campaign headquarters and grew up in an attempt to plug the involvement of the Nixon administration, which it resigned facing the risk of impeachment or congressional impeachment .

Dean, defined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as "mastermind of cover-up," even compared the styles of Nixon and Trump, both elected by the Republican Party.

The Watergate scandal ended the Nixon presidency in 1974.

"Both are authoritarian personalities," he said. "And this is a personality type that tries to scare people into taking a strong man as their leader."

"There are reasons to compare the two presidencies, with the caveat that Trump's presidency takes 41 or 42 days, so it's very new," said Margaret O'Mara, a history professor at the University of Washington (UW) to the BBC World.

He said that while the Watergate case took years , that of contacts with Russia "is developing at hypervelocity, it is really extraordinary how things move."

Trump Support

On Thursday, Trump expressed support for Sessions, saying he should not refrain from participating in research on the campaign, which in any case happened shortly after, as Republican congressmen began to complain.

The president denied that he was aware of Sessions' contacts with the ambassador.