How previous Presidential scandals can help us to understand the Trump Administration

Compared to his immediate predecessors, President Donald Trump's administration is mired in scandal, with his former employees facing court cases and Trump's charitable foundation now subject to a lawsuit over alleged misuse of funds. Peter Finn and Robert Ledger look to past presidential scandals to help predict what the endgame of the current ones may be. They write that scandals such as Richard Nixon’s Watergate and Ronald Reagan’s Iran-Contra can eventually paralyze an administration, and divert attention away from policy-making.