Watergate’s John Dean: New Donald Trump Scandal Is ‘Nixon On Stilts And Steroids’
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“It is beyond Nixon," the former White House counsel said of the Trump Justice Department's gathering of private information about members of Congress.
The Trump Justice Department’s secret seizure of the smartphone data of Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee is “Nixon on stilts and steroids,” so-called Watergate “master manipulator” John Dean said Friday. Dean, who served as White House counsel to Richard Nixon before flipping on the then-president over the Watergate scandal, told CNN’s Erin Burnett that the actions of the Trump DOJ went far beyond what his former boss ever did. He said comparisons with Nixon were wide of the mark.
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