• By the time Nixon fired Cox, there was as well-developed criminal case implicating the president and most of his supporters had made for the exits. Not so with Trump. His support among his base remains strong and so does the belief that the media, acting out of its own loathing of Trump, its politics and cultural biases being so unlike those of Trump, is attempting to orchestrate his demise. That as yet no evidence has emerged showing the campaign conspired with Russian operatives to subvert the 2016 election will only intensify this reaction.