SIMON BARBER: Trump’s sins more like stained blue dress

Is Kremlingate a lethal cancer on the Trump presidency, the way the Watergate cover-up was for Richard Nixon? Or is it more akin to Whitewater, the pseudo-scandal named after a failed property development that blighted, but did not destroy, Bill and Hillary Clinton’s tenancy of the White House. Just as many Democrats question Donald Trump’s legitimacy today, so many Republicans rejected Clinton’s in 1992. They went hunting for skeletons Billary left behind when they came to Washington from Little Rock, Arkansas, where Bill had been governor and which was by no means the ethics capital of the US. Smelling smoke from the Whitewater deal and other Clinton schemes to improve their then scant net worth, the haters blew as hard as they could to coax up a flame. Vince Foster, a friend and law partner of the Clintons, committed suicide under circumstances readily construable as mysterious, and, voila, you had the makings of an inferno. Then, as now, there were plenty of fake news artists at...

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