'Nixon was a patriot,' J.W. Verret said. 'Of all the crazy things he did, he never would have accepted help from a foreign power for his own personal interest in an election.'
After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry, former Trump adviser J.W. Verret on Monday compared the president's Ukraine controversy to former President Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal and concluded that Trump's is"a lot worse."
During an appearance on CNN Monday, Verret said he believed that there was enough evidence in the Mueller report"to begin impeachment proceedings," before then asserting that the newly emerged Ukraine scandal"is much worse." Ex-Trump adviser J.W. Verret on Monday told CNN that President Donald Trump's Ukraine scandal is"a lot worse" than former President Richard Nixon's Watergate.A whistleblower filed a formal complaint that accused the Trump administration of covering up a phone call made between the president and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, in July, during which he asked the foreign president to investigate the family of his political rival former Vice President Joe Biden.
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