John Dean

On Saturday, while Bernie was kicking off his 2020 campaign with a speech of substance, hope and love in Brooklyn, Trump was delivering a hateful scorched-earth address to the far right radical fringe of American politics, "calling the Russia investigation 'bullshit,' adopting a southern accent to mock his former attorney general, and asserting that some members of Congress 'hate our country.'"

I don’t want to presume that everyone remembers— or even ever knew— who John Dean is. He was Nixon’s White House lawyer and became a key witness in the Watergate trials. He’s an author (Blind Ambition, Conservatives Without Conscience, Worse Than Watergate, Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches), a columnist and a registered independent.

The [Washington] Post lied to its readers by printing stories it knew were false, and they allowed Woodward to lie with impunity. That included printing stories that claimed that Moorer or others had never talked to us for Silent Coup, when in fact the Post’s reporters not only knew they had been interviewed, but they had done so on tape. Their editors and allies waged a campaign of disinformation and intimidation against other media organizations that considered printing parts of Silent Coup or airing stories about the book.