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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: Jim Noble

EXACTLY correct.


61 posted on 08/15/2023 10:36:54 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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John Dean
Would this be about the break-in at the Watergate hotel that you organized and then lied about to everyone?


62 posted on 08/15/2023 10:46:39 AM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

First time John Dean has been right about anything


63 posted on 08/15/2023 11:23:26 AM PDT by wild74
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dean is an idiot, long past his expiration date.


64 posted on 08/15/2023 11:26:14 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I just went to the toilet and dropped a John Dean, it was a most horrific smell.


65 posted on 08/15/2023 1:33:28 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-geologist- instructor pilot-almost chemist-pharmacist-retired.)
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To: cpdiii

“Things Not Bigger Than Watergate” by John Dean, Random House, 2020, 0 pages


66 posted on 08/15/2023 3:00:38 PM PDT by brookwood (To achieve equity, the percentage of whites in prison must equal the percentage of blacks in prison)
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