So many of the things President Donald Trump has done in his second term could have been scandals in any other political era – including his first term.

But it’s often difficult to make that case conclusively, given we can’t transplant today’s exact events on to another timeline.

We can basically do that, though, with one recent event: the administration’s attempts to lure New York City Mayor Eric Adams to drop his reelection race in exchange for an administration job .

It’s precisely this scenario, in fact, that Republicans and conservative pundits once labeled a serious crime worthy of a special prosecutor – a Watergate-esque scandal possibly even worthy of impeachment.

Or at least, that’s when the shoe was on the other foot.

To recap: The administration has been trying to get A

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