Nixon-era White House counsel John Dean: Nixon was 'corrupt,' but Trump is 'evil'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Ex-White House counsel John Dean believes history will view former President Richard Nixon's protracted Watergate scandal as "a brief idyllic daydream" following President Trump's "evil" administration.

"Trump’s is making the long nightmare of Nixon’s Watergate seem like a brief idyllic daydream," Dean tweeted late Saturday night. "History will treat Nixon’s moral failures as relatively less troubling than Trump’s sustained and growing decadence, deviousness and self-delusive behavior. Nixon=corrupt; Trump=evil."

Dean was White House counsel from 1970 to 1973. He agreed to cooperate with Senate Watergate investigators and federal prosecutors after Nixon refused to grant him immunity for his role before the 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters, conducted as part of a series of dirty campaign tactics to help the then-president, as well as the ensuing cover-up. Dean served time in prison following a guilty plea to obstructing justice.

Dean has been a vocal critic of Trump, especially amid reports that former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn has cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller's federal Russia investigation. McGahn sat down with Mueller's team and reportedly gave dozens of hours of testimony. Trump has called Dean "a rat" on Twitter in response to his scrutiny.

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[Stuart G]

1. K and R...thanks for posting....

[Glimmer of Hope]

2. We know.

[lpbk2713]

3. Trump is a traitor.

No one else comes close.

[Scurrilous]

4. K&R

[dalton99a]

5. He is the personification of evil.

[rusty quoin]

6. I have a good friend since the 90s who didn't like the expression, "It can't get worse than this."

He is a pessimist like me and always said, “It can get worse.”

Maybe both of us have met our match. It cannot get worse than Trump. I guess Satan himself could rise out of the earth, but for the United States, no president has come this close to evil.

[rsdsharp]

7. People ask me why I'm a pessimist instead of an optimist.

It's because pessimists are never disappointed, and often pleasantly surprised, while optimists are often disappointed, and never pleasantly surprised.