Is Donald Trump heading for his Watergate over relations with Russia?

At a protest outside the Justice Department on Thursday a demonstrator told me he was "absolutely certain" that the Russia controversy would become Donald Trump's Watergate and eventually bring him down.

Wishful thinking for any anti-Trump protester but he's not alone.

Republican Senator Lindsay Graham echoed that sentiment when he said if the Russia ties allegations are true "it would be the biggest political scandal since Watergate".

Even Richard Nixon's lawyer, John Dean, has joined the chorus, saying he sees "echoes of Watergate" in the Trump administration.

In a controversy-rich campaign and presidency, Russia is the issue that just will not go away.

There is no doubt that if links - or worse still, collusion - with Russia during the election are proved it could have a catastrophic impact on Mr Trump's presidency.

Mr Trump's unusual praise of Vladimir Putin throughout his campaign was perplexing, especially when you consider that, largely, the bipartisan view of the Russian leader is that he is an adversary of America.

A total of 17 US intelligence agencies arrived at a consensus: Russia had used a portfolio of propaganda, including hacking and "fake news", to interfere with the US election with the specific aim of helping Mr Trump and hurting his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

The focus then became whether the Trump campaign had contact with Russian officials before election day.

The Trump team has repeatedly denied this but through more leaks we learned that intelligence officials had evidence of constant contact.

Twice now, Trump officials have been caught misleading or lying about their contact with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.

It has since emerged that a total of six Trump advisers have met Mr Kislyak, including Mr Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

What we do not know and what is absolutely crucial is what they discussed and whether they were complicit in Russia's meddling.

Another key question - what led US intelligence officials to conclude that Russia's aim was to help Mr Trump?

Is there proof that their tactics were discussed with Trump campaign officials?

No such evidence has been seen but if it does exist, in these leak-filled days, it could surface at any time.

Only then would the predictions of a Watergate-level scandal become the biggest challenge yet for this embattled presidency.

Refugees? I don’t care!

NO, I don’t care. Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad.

I still don’t care.

Because in the next minute you’ll show me pictures of aggressive young men at Calais, spreading like norovirus on a cruise ship.

Watching them try to clamber on to British lorries and steal their way into the UK, do I feel pity? Only for the British drivers, who get hit with a fine every time one of this plague of feral humans ends up in their truck.

Understand this, these two populations are the same. The migrants harassing Brit truckers at the port are the same as the vagrants making the perilous trip across the Med.

And there is no stopping them. 170,000 came last year.

During a recent operation by the Italian coastguard to rescue migrants off the coast of Libya, the people traffickers threatened crew with Kalashnikovs to get their vessel back.

Clearly, boats are in short supply. And that is a good thing. No boats, no migrants.

There is a simple solution to this. It’s time for the Italians to stop singing opera, drinking espresso and looking chic in chuffing everything.

It’s time to get Australian.

Australians are like British people but with balls of steel, can-do brains, tiny hearts and whacking great gunships.

Their approach to migrant boats is the sort of approach we need in the Med.

They threaten them with violence until they bugger off, throwing cans of Castlemaine in an Aussie version of sharia stoning.

And their approach is working. Migrant boats have halved in number since Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott got tough.

We don’t need another rescue project. The now defunct £7million-a-month Mare Nostrum — Italy’s navy search and rescue operation — was paid for (in part) by British taxpayers.

And we don’t need a campaign from Save the Children to encourage more migrants to take the journey.

What we need are gunships sending these boats back to their own country.

You want to make a better life for yourself? Then you had better get creative in Northern Africa.

Britain is not El Dorado. We are not Elysium. Some of our towns are festering sores, plagued by swarms of migrants and asylum seekers, shelling out benefits like Monopoly money.

Make no mistake, these migrants are like cockroaches. They might look a bit “Bob Geldof’s Ethiopia circa 1984”, but they are built to survive a nuclear bomb. They are survivors.

Once gunships have driven them back to their shores, boats need to be confiscated and burned on a huge bonfire.

Drilling a few holes in the bottom of anything suspiciously resembling a boat would be a good idea, too, just for belt and braces.

If you think rescue boats are a good idea, you may as well set up a Libya to Italy P&O ferry service and send your taxes to Africa by direct debit for good measure.

Or if you think like me, then it’s time to get Australian. Bring on the gunships, force migrants back to their shores and burn the boats.

As it turns out, I do care. I care passionately about British truckers and taxpayers in the UK.