Richard Nixon’s former White House counsel, John Dean, has a scathing assessment of the January 6 committee’s case against Donald Trump: he declared it “unacceptable.”
“I think there’s a great case — proof beyond a reasonable doubt — against Trump,” Dean said Thursday on CNN.
Dean, who has seen this before, added, “It’s really a question of whether we prosecute a former president, not whether we can — and I think they will.” They do.”
Dean was responding to Republican Party strategist Dan Urban’s stance that Trump would not be convicted. “Criminal guilt is much more difficult to prove than to say that someone has done something that is morally reprehensible. Orban said: There is a big difference between the two.
On January 6, the committee referred four criminal charges against Trump to the Department of Justice. The charges include obstruction of justice, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make false statements, and inciting sedition against the United States.
Check out Dean’s thoughts on the predicament Trump finds himself in below: