John Dean Hopes to 'Show How Strikingly Like Watergate' the Trump Investigation IsCNS News, Jun 10, 2019
Watergate witness John Dean, answering the House Judiciary Committee's call to testify on this Monday, told CNN what he plans to say at the 2 p.m. hearing.
"What I'm going to try to do...I'm clearly not a fact witness, but I hope I can give them some context and show them how strikingly like Watergate what we're seeing now, and as reported in the Mueller report, is.
"So I've taken several examples from the Mueller report relating to obstruction of justice, which is their focus today, and looked at those and made the comparisons," Dean said Monday morning.
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Too many are too similar," Dean said, "but the fact that Nixon was hands-on very early is just like Trump -- hands-on very early.
"The firing of Comey was certainly not dissimilar from some of the actions Nixon took. Nixon waded in and tried to influence the FBI investigation, as did Trump. So there are lots of comparisons," Dean said.
But one glaring area of difference between Nixon and Trump is that Nixon became aware, after the fact, of the Watergate burglary, the underlying crime that he tried to cover up.
The FBI opened its counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump without a crime having been alleged.
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