A Mafia Hit Man’s Assessment of John Dean

American Spectator ^ | June 12, 2019 | George Parry

[Twotone]

In the running-around-with-their-hair-on-fire department, the Congressional Democrats just topped themselves with yesterday’s bizarre testimony of convicted felon John Dean before the House Judiciary Committee. Students of history may recall that Dean served in the Nixon White House as Counsel to the President and pled guilty in 1974 to obstruction of justice for his role in covering up the ties between Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President and the Watergate burglary. Since then, Dean has become a CNN commentator.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I still don’t understand, why the Democrats trotted out Watergate bug John Dean, to testify about anything related to Trump. How is anything John Dean has to say, related to anything going on with Trump?

[karnage]

“That guy would steal the silver dollars off his dead mother’s eyes.”

[Lurkinanloomin]

John Dean was the one who sent the plumbers into Watergate to retrieve files of prostitutes used by the DNC to entertain bigwigs.
His future wife was in those files.

[morphing libertarian]

trying guilt by associating trump with nixon through dean

[plain talk]

In case anyone is wondering about the bottom line answer to the headline — here it ‘tis

“So what did this mafioso think of the Watergate defendants? He spoke highly of Colson as a decent “stand up guy.” But he considered Magruder and Dean to be untrustworthy and duplicitous weaklings. And of Dean in particular he opined, “That guy would steal the silver dollars off his dead mother’s eyes.”

[proust]

I wish the GOP would bring out G Gordon Liddy as a character witness for Dean.

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[PIF]

I still don’t understand, why the Democrats trotted out Watergate bug John Dean

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He’s their hero - a convicted felon for obstruction of justice, disbarred - their sort of guy - who helped bring down a hated Republican President.

They’re just giving him his long overdue honorarium. A modern Democrat’s sort of virtue signaling toward a hero of the past now made relevant again..

[Maris Crane]

Well, he got this knot in his stomach when he learned President Trump was winning.

Can’t have a knot, you know.

So with some histrionics, you can get on TV.

[o-n-money]

His future wife was in those files.

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Cheaper than a dating service.

[Simon Foxx]

Sadly, Mr Liddy is not doing too well based on something I read a year or two ago. It hasn’t been revealed what is wrong with him (other than simple very old age), but I have long suspected that he retired from public life after getting some unfavorable diagnosis. He and his family have kept that private, as is their right.

I too, wish that Mr Liddy was well enough to opine on this latest stunt of Mr Dean’s.

[frank ballenger]

Thanks. Great line:And of Dean in particular he opined, “That guy would steal the silver dollars off his dead mother’s eyes.”

I wonder if his job interview at CNN went like this:

I don’t like to work hard-—I’m old now and retired.
I’m known for being a traitor to people who trusted me in the Nixon era so people don’t know if they can trust me today.

I like to spout off without knowing much of anything.

Boss: Well, Mr. Dean I’m sorry but there’s a great deal of competition for this kind of opening at CNN and....”

Dean: And I viciously hate Donald Trump and will slash at him with slander and innuendo all day. Hate the guy.

Boss: You are hired.

[Texas resident]

When Gordon Liddy had a radio show, he spoke very harshly about Dean. There might be a recording somewhere. His show was on the radio in the mid 1990’s.

[nikos1121]

Did Nixon know that Dean had ordered the break in? I don’t think so, but instead he tried to cover it up. A stupid thing.

Secondly, he kept those tapes. He should have burned them.

bottom line, Dean is the dishonest disloyal a hole here.

I tried to watch him yesterday, and couldn’t until Jordan and some others raked him, and made him look like the worthless POS he is.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

The Dems are conjuring the aura of John Dean as the one who broke and ran to the press, exposing Nixon’t plumbers in a way that no “limited hang out” could cover up. They are trying to mobilize Rino globalist factions in the Republican Party USA in their grand strategy of pedal to the metal, nothing left to lose smoke grenade barrage to keep the Steele Manifesto charade zombie alive and lurching.

[Simon Foxx]

I listened to Mr Liddy’s show. Dean sued Liddy for libel a whole bunch of times. Each and every time Mr Liddy’s reaction was along the lines of “I have waited my entire life to get John Dean on the witness stand under oath”.

Each and every time Dean withdrew his suit before it ever got to trial or depositions.

I don’t know if he was just yanking Mr Liddy’s chain, or, more likely in my view, if he was just using the suits as a publicity stunt to drawn attention away from the public spanking that Mr Liddy continually gave him, outing him as the originator of the entire Watergate break in.

[DesertRhino]

It would be like conducting an inquiry into the activities of Reagan, and inviting someone from the end of the Hoover administration before a congressional committee to discuss it. The distance is that far in years.

[BwanaNdege]

Liddy had a great radio show! He and Barry Farber were the two most intelligent and knowledgeable radio commentators in the business, by far!

I read/heard somewhere that John Dean had sued Liddy 10 times for libel/defamation/slander (something in that line) and Dean LOST all ten times.

Dean made an oblique mention of his being busy with lawsuits, but none of our congress critters were informed sufficiently to question Dean on this.

Too bad

[Still Thinking]

I still don’t understand, why the Democrats trotted out Watergate bug John Dean, to testify about anything related to Trump. How is anything John Dean has to say, related to anything going on with Trump?

They're clinging to the glory days. They can't help thinking about the time they were able to bring down an especially despised Republican POTUS, so they're drawn to anything having to do with that episode.