Former President Nixon’s White House counsel, John Dean, delivered a sharp public rebuke of President Trump, calling him “evil.”
Dean tweeted early Sunday that Trump makes the “long nightmare” of 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,” Dean said. “Nixon=corrupt; Trump=evil.”
The former White House counsel became a key prosecution witness during the Watergate scandal after pleading guilty to one count of obstruction of justice.
{mosads}Dean has criticized Trump before, but his comments have largely focused on the special counsel investigation and possible legal troubles plaguing the Trump administration.
In August, Dean tweeted that then-White House counsel Don McGahn was “doing right!” by cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller in the Russia investigation.
He followed that up by hitting Trump directly, saying that he doubts the president had “ANY IDEA what McGahn has told Mueller.”
Dean also told Trump: “I still have trouble using the title Mr. President for someone installed by Putin.”
His new comments come just two days before the midterm elections, and days after a week of political violence that had many Trump opponents doubling down on their criticism of the president’s rhetoric and attacks on the media and Democrats.