Fmr Nixon WH ..: Trump comparison of FBI search to Watergate ‘doesn’t work..

Source: The Hill | August 9, 2022 | Olafimihan Oshin

Former Nixon White House counsel: Trump comparison of FBI search to Watergate ‘doesn’t work at all’

John Dean, the White House counsel to former President Nixon, said that former President Trump’s comparison of the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence to the Watergate scandal is inaccurate.

“He doesn’t understand what happened during Watergate, or he’s just trying to distort what happened … at his home,” Dean told CNN’s “Inside Politics” host John King on Tuesday. “And it doesn’t work at all, the analogy.”

In a statement on Monday, Trump referred to the FBI’s search of his Florida estate as “prosecutorial misconduct” and compared it to the Watergate scandal.

“They even broke into my safe! What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee?” Trump said in his statement. “Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States.”

Dean also told King that Trump may have provoked authorities to search his residence by cutting off communication with them after initial cooperation was shown between the two parties. 

“What it tells me, John, is that they were cooperating, but somehow Trump cut them off and did something that provoked this action,” Dean said.

“They obviously are very aware of what he has, they may have an inside source that sees some abuse of that material. So they had to take an extraordinary action to protect the national security and documents and that appears what this is.”

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Dean also believes that the FBI wants to make sure that even a former president like Trump can’t walk away with classified documents.

“So yes, this has been in months of development, you’ve got an agency that is very protective of its documents and wants them and wants to … this is a perfect example to make a point that not even a former president can walk off with classified documents,” Dean added.

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