Republicans shred Dean’s record: 'How
many presidents have you accused
of being Richard Nixon?'
Washington Examiner,
by
Susan Ferrechio
Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx,
6/10/2019 6:45:58 PM
Republican lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee Monday attacked star witness John Dean’s credibility, citing his criminal record and history of attacking President Trump and other Republicans.“Mr. Dean has made a cottage industry out of accusing presidents of acting like Richard Nixon,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said.Dean, the ex-White House counsel in President Richard Nixon's administration, was convicted of obstruction of justice after striking a deal to cooperate with the Watergate investigation. He has spent decades critical of the GOP and wrote a book in 2004 accusing President George H.W. Bush of acts “worse than Watergate.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/10/2019 7:15:42 PM (No. 95369)
Yep, apparently they let OJ out of jail too and he's doing nicely thank you. Nadler will have OJ on the stand Wednesday.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree 6/10/2019 7:55:43 PM (No. 95392)
I love the primary question. So tell us, you little snitch, how many
Presidents since Nixon have you been paid by democrats to liken
to the man you stabbed in the back?
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John Dean was the principle person, per the FBI, who was responsible for Watergate.
When he couldn't get immunity from Nixon for his possible crimes, he turned states evidence and then ratted out the rest of the members.
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The boy who cried "Watergate". Who thinks that calling a convicted felon lawyer who was disbarred for a cover up and obstruction of justice would be a good witness for anything? Only in the land of the idiots is this guy a king.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
judy 6/11/2019 12:01:24 AM (No. 95476)
One thing for sure he still has his job at CNN!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 6/11/2019 6:20:36 AM (No. 95546)
The rats are trying to get Dean to make comparisons between Russia, Russia, Russia and Watergate. There is no comparison here at all. The big difference is this, There was a crime committed at Watergate (breaking and entering), (Russia, Russia, Russia NO CRIME). 1) There was no collusion and 2) collusion is not a crime.
This is nothing more than a circus act.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Historybuff 6/11/2019 8:43:43 AM (No. 95621)
So John, tell us what you were looking for and what part your wife's past played in the break in?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HotRod 6/11/2019 8:59:55 AM (No. 95633)
FTA: ''It’s not by choice I’ve done a lot of this,” Dean said. 'I've been dragged into this.''
Well, well! I wonder what else is in Dean's FBI file that the democrats are using to coerce him into ''testifying?''
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/11/2019 9:08:35 AM (No. 95643)
SImilarity: Both involved spying on the opposition campaign
Difference: Nixon's team did their own spying without engaging federal government assets Obama and Hillary used federal assets
Difference: Nixon's rogue campaign workers did not enlist foreign entities
Difference: The media enthusiastically exposed Watergate now the same media was complicit in the manufacture of a fraudulent case against Trump and the ensuing coup.
Difference: Watergate involved republicans spying on democrats, the only real spying now was democrats spying on republicans
Are you sure you want to go down this path Mr. Dean?
As for the DNC being spied upon, that was a cover story for Hillary's sale and transfer of our classified information to the Russians. That was the purpose of the private server, providing plausible deniability to masquerade treason as simple carelessness. Ok that's my take I strayed from indisputable fact. I'm just fitting the puzzle pieces together in the only way that makes sense.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/11/2019 9:20:26 AM (No. 95663)
Matt Gaetz gets the gold trophy for the funniest line ever uttered at a congressional hearing - -
"We're looking at the Ghost of Christmas Past!"
Way to go, Matt!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 6/11/2019 9:34:04 AM (No. 95676)
Like the sixty year old high school football players at a reunion reliving their glory days the democrats revel in Watergate.
They are reliving their glory lap threw the crook, Dean, who planned Watergate. I doubt Nixon was kept informed about the break in.
Dean and Liddy planned this third rate burglary and I don't believe half of what Woodward and Bernstein wrote in the NYTs.
Fake news and Nixon was paranoid so he quit. I think the left would have pursed Nixon criminally if Ford hadn't pardoned him but for what was he pardoned, resigning? It's different times now and Humpty Dumpty Nadler is chasing wild geese.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 6/11/2019 9:42:59 AM (No. 95686)
Just a walk down memory lane here . . . John Dean's wife attended when he was testifying. She always sat in the row behind him-----very beautiful with her hair in a chignon. Her name was Maureen, and she was nicknamed "Mo." She dressed often in off-white suits. I looked her up on the internet. She was only about 30 during the hearings. John Dean only served 4.5 months in a federal prison. She wrote a few books afterwards. In photos she is still very beautiful today. The John Dean testimony was something that everyone watched. Taping was begun by FDR, so Nixon wasn't the only one.
President Nixon's character flaws were minor compared to the bamboozling bunch in the Oval Office later. At the time, I believed he just should have had a bonfire in the backyard of those tapes. I still believe it. The transcript of the hearings were released in a fat paperback book. I think I still have it around here somewhere.
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Mo Dean was pretty good-looking in a Margot Fonteyn sort of way but she was a raving beauty next to the cankled, bucktooth Hillary who was a junior on the prosecution side in the Watergate matter. Her husband, on the other hand, had the instincts of a rat and seems to possess them to this day. The Watergate scandal, even taken at face value, looks like a combination of plunking and dirty tricks when compared to the weaponizing of the IRS, the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA undertaken by Obama and his myrmidons. It would be fun to put Dean back into the witness chair after Barr and his prosecutor are finished investigating the real 2016 election tampering scandal. Comparisons to Tricky Dick will not bear the scrutiny of criminal action by Comey, Brennan, McCabe, and Strozk/Page. Their shenanigans will make Nixon look like a kindergartener.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
NotaBene 6/11/2019 11:46:43 AM (No. 95795)
There they go again, 50 years late.
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Pov 29
27 The righteous detest the dishonest;
the wicked detest the upright.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
morecowbell 6/11/2019 12:11:08 PM (No. 95805)
If only Richard Nixon had taken the Clinton route and just stayed put. Nixon was never impeached, he voluntarily left office. Clinton, on the other hand, was impeached, but was too shameless to step down. So, the rules have changed. Impeachment means nothing if you can't get the Senate to convict and remove the person from office. It's all a charade.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
edgar 6/11/2019 6:19:37 PM (No. 96128)
Funny how Dean said he was not called to the hearing as a 'fact witness'. Republicans need to hammer that home the next time Nadler, Schiff, Pelosi, et al talk about "going where the facts lead." Cohen & Dean... not people to call as witnesses if you want to find the truth.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/11/2019 7:28:33 PM (No. 96176)
To be completely fair, Jerry Nadler is not a fact witness either. I would have thought that John Dean would have lost a little of his arrogance by now, but that isn't the case. Once a blue-nose arrogant snitch, always a blue-nose arrogant snitch.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
PostAway 6/11/2019 9:35:12 PM (No. 96267)
After all these years I had forgotten what a smuggly little punk Rat King Dean was at the Watergate hearings. He has not improved or grown in wisdom with age. Had he actually gone to jail rather than slithering away, he may have come out a better man or at least a decent one. I am glad he’s on the other side: Nadler and friends deserve his chicken excrement self. Did you hear that Jerry? Get your head out of that KFC tub! I’m talking to you! And here! Wipe that grease and those crumbs from your face and inside your ears with this! It’s called a “napkin.”
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