John Dean and the Need to Cure the Current Republican Cancer
June 25, 1973: White House counsel John Dean recounts his meetings with President Nixon to the Senate Watergate Committee: “I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the Presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, he President himself would be killed by it.” If you were at home and watching the television you might have seen President Trump calling for people to walk to the Capitol and he would be with them on January 6th, 2021 . Later in the afternoon it got ugly, and violently dangerous. Some in the crowd were calling out to hang Mike Pence. Two Impeachment Trials, criminal indictments, and civil fraud, defamation and sexual abuse judgments are not the stuff of witch hunts and victimless crimes. Chris Christie: "He'll burn America to the ground to help himself," Christie said, in a direct address to the camera. "Every Republican leader says that in private. I'm the only one saying it in public." In many ways the legal iss...