'Here's a guy who has no veracity at all. Nobody can trust what he says,' Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona said.
Republican Representative Andy Biggs mocked Democrats for asking John Dean to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Monday, arguing that the move was an act of"desperation" and calling former President Richard Nixon's White House counsel the"cover up master of criminality."
John Dean, former White House counsel to President Nixon, is sworn in during a hearing on the nomination of federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Hart Senate Office Building on September 7, 2018 in Washington, D.C.against his boss, Nixon, during the Watergate scandal back in 1973. As White House counsel, he infamously warned his boss that there was"a cancer growing on the presidency" that may prove fatal.
in April, just after special counsel Robert Mueller's report was released, and said it was"more damning" than the report against Nixon as well as the report that led to former President Bill Clinton's impeachment.But Biggs attempted to dismiss Dean's Monday afternoon testimony before it began, arguing that he knew nothing more than anyone else about Mueller's investigation and calling into question his credibility.
Canât believe they are bringing in John Dean, the disgraced Nixon White House Counsel who is a paid CNN contributor. No Collusion - No Obstruction! Democrats just want a do-over which theyâll never get!Trump also attacked Dean's credibility on Monday, posting to Twitter:
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