Nixon’s Watergate Lawyer John Dean: Every Morning I’m Just Happy That Trump Hasn’t Blown Up The World

The Independent reports:

The former Counsel to President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal said Americans view Donald Trump as “insane”, “angry” and he thinks that Mr Trump’s Presidency is an “unfolding disaster”.

“As I see it, about maybe half the population right now isn’t sure whether he is insane or if he’s just a totally angry man, they don’t know what he’s doing,” John Dean told Sky News. “About 40 per cent seem to be happy with him and approve of his job and another maybe 10 per cent are pretty confused or don’t care, so it’s very strange over here now. “We’ve never had a President like this and that’s why I have nightmares.”

Mr Dean, who served under Mr Nixon in the early 1970s and was described by the FBI as a “master manipulator”, speculated that the current President appeared to have an “attention deficit disorder” and had not made any effort to become more Presidential. “I see it as unfolding disaster at this point,” he said. “I’m kind of happy every morning when I wake up to see he hasn’t blown up some part of the world.”

In 1973 Dean confessed to supervising the payment of hush money to the Watergate burglars. He later pleaded guilty on one felony count of obstruction of justice but served only four months in prison largely due to his help in convicting his co-conspirators.