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John Dean: Trump indictments over 2020 election ‘much bigger than Watergate’
The Hill ^
| 08/15/2023
| MIRANDA NAZZARO
Posted on 08/15/2023 7:38:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
John Dean, former President Nixon’s White House counsel, said Monday night that former President Trump’s latest indictment in Georgia over efforts to overturn the 2020 election is “much bigger than Watergate.”
Dean made the comment on CNN, when asked by anchor Kaitlan Collins whether he sees echoes of the Nixon-era scandal in the Georgia indictment.
“It’s much bigger than Watergate,” said Dean, who gave key congressional testimony during the Nixon scandal. “It’s of a whole different dimension. It goes to the very foundation of democracy. Nixon abused some powers, he exceeded his authority when he shouldn’t, but he wasn’t taking on the basics of the country.”
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2020; dean; trump; watergate
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To: ChicagoConservative27
It’s difficult to tell (from the excerpt) whether he means the charges in the indictments or the indictments themselves.
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posted on
08/15/2023 8:36:43 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
To: ChicagoConservative27
Since Dean ran the entire Watergate operation and lied to the President about it, he has to minimize it.
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posted on
08/15/2023 8:39:32 AM PDT
by
mak5
To: ChicagoConservative27
Who in the hell listens to the Screamer?!!!!
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posted on
08/15/2023 8:40:28 AM PDT
by
Road Warrior ‘04
(BOYCOTT Anheuser Busch, the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper! )
To: Road Warrior ‘04
OOPs! Error, error, error! Never mind.
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posted on
08/15/2023 8:41:51 AM PDT
by
Road Warrior ‘04
(BOYCOTT Anheuser Busch, the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper! )
To: ChicagoConservative27
The yesteryear CREEP, John Dean, is still trying to blow smoke up the American public's A$$!
To: ChicagoConservative27
They all have that stupid two bit Watergate on the brain.
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posted on
08/15/2023 8:48:21 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
( )
To: ChicagoConservative27
John Dean out of his padded room again man the nets.
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posted on
08/15/2023 8:58:57 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
(....)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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posted on
08/15/2023 8:59:21 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Sarcasm )
To: ChicagoConservative27
For those of us who lived through that period Dean, Woodward, Bernstein and their ilk have no credibility in 2023. If you want to draw historical parallels to today you would have to look at the Soviet Union of the 70s and 80s. I am looking forward when we can draw historical parallels to Romania of the late 80s.
To: ChicagoConservative27
Lol. Does anyone remember the hanging chads? Why isn’t Algore under arrest?
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posted on
08/15/2023 9:16:53 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: ChicagoConservative27
Well, to be fair, he’s right. This IS much bigger than Watergate.
Just not the way he means.
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posted on
08/15/2023 9:24:58 AM PDT
by
absalom01
(You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
To: George from New England
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posted on
08/15/2023 9:30:41 AM PDT
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
To: ChicagoConservative27
I’d actually agree...it is bigger. It’s the entire media establishment engaging in treason. They’re willful participants in lawfare and the corruption of the legal and electoral process.
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posted on
08/15/2023 9:35:21 AM PDT
by
fuzzylogic
(welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Actually they are both about the same. Nonsense, that brought around coup for the Democrats, John Dean you a-hat.
To: ChicagoConservative27
Trump indictments over 2020 election ‘much bigger than Watergate’This is true, but not for the reasons John Dean believes.
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posted on
08/15/2023 9:49:29 AM PDT
by
Dr.Deth
To: ChicagoConservative27
Dean’s comments can be interpreted as his admission that Watergate was no big deal.
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posted on
08/15/2023 9:56:38 AM PDT
by
x
To: ChicagoConservative27
Once a puffer for the deep state, always a puffer for the
deep state.
The only time this guy matters, is when they pull him out
to trash a Republican, after him taking a pass on Clinton.
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posted on
08/15/2023 10:13:36 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
To this bozo, Trump spitting on the sidewalk would be bigger than Watergate.
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posted on
08/15/2023 10:15:59 AM PDT
by
Trump_Triumphant
("Our hearts are restless, Oh Lord, until they rest in thee"- St. Augustine)
To: Trump_Triumphant
Or as Gordon Liddy called him, The Serial perjurer. He did not have the guts to face Liddy in Court. On top of being a liar and perjurer, he is a coward.
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posted on
08/15/2023 10:21:14 AM PDT
by
sport
To: ChicagoConservative27
I never saw where a crime was with Watergate or a coverup with Nixon. He should have told those calling for his resignation to put a sock in it and hung on.
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posted on
08/15/2023 10:33:59 AM PDT
by
Glad2bnuts
(“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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