He derided the president’s “growing decadence, deviousness and self-delusive behavior.” Dean also said that while Nixon was corrupt, Trump is evil. Richard Nixon ’s former White House counsel John Dean ripped President Donald Trump in a scathing tweet Sunday, accusing him of making the “long nightmare” of the Watergate scandal now “look like a brief Idyllic daydream.”Trump’s is making the long nightmare of Nixon’s Watergate seem like a brief idyllic daydream. History will treat Nixon’s moral failures as relatively less troubling than Trump’s sustained and growing decadence, deviousness and self-delusive behavior. He quipped in an interview with Rolling Stone that Nixon, who resigned the presidency in 1974, might have remained in the White House if Fox News had existed then to protect him. But more recently, he has expressed more optimism with the arrest of Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and after White House counsel Don McGahn’s cooperation with special investigator Robert Mueller.

Source: Huffington Post November 05, 2018 03:45 UTC