John Dean: ‘Nixon=Corrupt; Trump=Evil’

on September 7, 2018 in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 07: John Dean, former White House counsel to President Nixon, speaks during a hearing on the nomination of federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice on the U.S... WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 07: John Dean, former White House counsel to President Nixon, speaks during a hearing on the nomination of federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Hart Senate Office Building on September 7, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh was nominated by President Donald Trump to fill the vacancy on the court left by retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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John Dean, the White House counsel for Richard Nixon during Watergate, blasted President Donald Trump on Sunday, calling him “evil” and saying his administration made Nixon’s corruption look comparatively like “a brief idyllic daydream.”

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  1. Avatar for tao tao says:

    Yup. Evil little fucker. Friends with murderers and despots. Enemy of children.

  2. I sure hope Dean has braced himself for the Twitter-lashing he is about to get.

    I’ve got “worst attorney in the history of our country”, for $200.

  3. going with “small time crook who got disbarred”.

  4. Dean on Nixon administration: “There’s a cancer growing on the Presidency.”
    Dean on Trump administration: “The current occupant of the Presidency IS cancer.”

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