How We'll Know If Trump Has A Real Problem ...
History serves as a preamble, specifically the history of the Watergate scandal.
The pillars of Government did not begin shaking until a Saturday night in October of 1973 when Richard Nixon ordered Elliott Richardson, his Attorney General, to fire Archibald Cox. Mr. Cox was the Special Prosecutor charged specifically with the task of getting to the bottom of Watergate and finding out what crimes, if any, had been committed. Up to this point most of the country believed Nixon's protestations that Watergate was "poppycock" (that he had nothing to do with) and he was going to concentrate "... on doing the peoples' work" while others wallowed in Watergate. That perception rapidly changed as a result of the infamous "Saturday Night Massacre" when Nixon fired both Richardson and Richardson's deputy, William Ruckelshaus, who also refused to fire Mr. Cox. Robert Bork, the third-in-command at the Department of Justice, agreed to fire Mr. Cox - a decision for which he paid dearly when he was rejected by the Senate for appointment to the United States Supreme Court.
The FBI, under Director James Comey, is currently conducting an extensive investigation into Trump's alleged Russian ties. (Presumably this ongoing investigation is focused on possible criminal violations.) According to the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.150373c3aa83
Comey was pressured, reportedly at the urging of unnamed Trump administration sources, to make a public statement exonerating Mr. Trump of any possible [criminal] culpability. Mr. Comey refused to issue such a public statement. (According to other reports, key members of both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees - as well as committee staffers - were asked by Trump officials to pressure Mr. Comey directly with the assertion that "... there is nothing to be investigated. Therefore, Mr. Comey should stop his investigation.")
The way we'll know if President Trump has a serious problem is if (or when) we see history repeating. If Trump orders his Attorney General to fire Mr. Comey, then it's 1973 all over again.