Watergate Figure John Dean Testifies On Monday And Trump Is Already Freaking Out

John Dean, the one-time White House counsel to President Richard M. Nixon who was dubbed the “master manipulator” of the Watergate scandal, is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Monday. And President Donald Trump is already unhappy about the hearing, titled “Lessons from the Mueller Report: Presidential Obstruction and Other Crimes.”

On Sunday, Trump took to Twitter to call Dean a “sleazebag”:

Dean is a frequent Trump critic on cable news and has described special counsel Robert Mueller’s report as “more damning” than the Watergate scandal....