The Atlantic Daily: Presidential Legitimacy and Preexisting Conditions

What We’re Following Trump’s Troubles: Last year, the CIA told then-President Obama that Putin had asked his intelligence agencies to intervene in Trump’s favor in the presidential election, according to a new report from The Washington Post. This doesn’t necessarily mean the Trump campaign was involved, but it deepens the uncertainty surrounding the legitimacy of his office—and makes the question of how to save its role in government even more urgent. Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste has been watching the ongoing investigation, and has this message for Trump: Don’t repeat Richard Nixon’s mistakes.