They are all guilty, and far beyond anything we'll ever learn. The difference is that like Watergate a few of them will have enough class and decency to come forward for the sake of historical record and their own reputation, like John Dean did, or at least plead guilty like Michael Cohen has done. It remains to be seen how forthright Cohen will be regarding atrocities by Donald Trump and others involved in the campaign and administration.
Donald Trump is a lifelong liar and cheat with not one decent quality. He will go down in history as one of the worst Americans of all time. Finally the comparisons to Joseph McCarthy are being made, including a long segment last night on CNN in which David Gergen made all the devastating comparisons to the McCarthy era, while calling McCarthy one of the most despicable Americans of all time. Donald Trump cannot escape that type of treatment by history, not with his Roy Cohn connections and the avalanche of lies, not to mention all the comical Orwellian contributions like alternative facts and truth isn't the truth and everything you are seeing and hearing is not what is happening.
Ignoring everything else, can you imagine how future centuries will treat that trifecta of comments alone? It will be a laugh track, with absolute disbelief the guy was ever elected, or could have had cronies who would throw those rationalizations into the mainstream.
As I pointed out the other day, the pro-Trump deflections and apologies here and elsewhere mean absolutely nothing. They are not arguments. They are little people desperately clinging to their people like the last branch on the way down.
That is what conservatism has become in the Donald Trump era. But it was always inevitable, given all the laughable qualities of conservatism to begin with. When a television celebrity can wave fear and a birth certificate in front of the audience and transfix half of the party, that defines the caliber of the party and members of the party and priorities of the party beyond the scope of any other vehicle.