John Dean: Trump Makes Watergate Nightmare a 'Brief Idyllic Daydream' John Dean (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)
By Eric Mack | Sunday, 04 November 2018 09:55 AM
Rebuking President Donald Trump's "sustained and growing decadence, deviousness and self-delusive behavior" as "evil," the man who flipped on former President Richard Nixon said Trump makes "Watergate seem like a brief idyllic daydream."
Attacks of President Trump are nothing new from former White House counsel John Dean, but he pulled no punches in his tweet early Sunday morning.
"Trump's is [sic] making the long nightmare of Nixon's Watergate seem like a brief idyllic daydream," the tweet read. "History will treat Nixon's moral failures as relatively less troubling than Trump's sustained and growing decadence, deviousness and self-delusive behavior. Nixon=corrupt; Trump=evil."
It was Dean who flipped on President Nixon after being charged with one count of obstruction of justice.
A study in 1981 found Dean's recollections during his 1973 Senate testimony to have been wrong even if there was evidence of a cover-up. Dean was also propped up as a Democratic witness in the Senate Judiciary Committee smear-campaign against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Dean's modern-day Twitter feed is a stream of tweets attacking President Trump and against Republicans, posting partisan rejections of Republicans as a matter of form.
"Dems need to put up a candidate who looks like George Clooney, has more money than Trump, and has the personality of Don Rickles," Dean tweeted in late October. "They need to coalesce early and across the board. House Dems need to ruthlessly go after Trump's incompetence starting NOW!"