A former Nixon administration lawyer says he believes President Donald Trump will soon face impeachment.
John Dean, who served time behind bars for his involvement in the Watergate scandal, offered his assessment in reaction to Friday’s court filing in which Trump is accused of ordering attorney Michael Cohen to pay off women who claimed to have an affair with the future president.
“The House is going to have little choice, the way this is going, other than to start impeachment proceedings,” Dean says. “[Cohen] implicated Trump directly. And he was doing it; his instructions. That’s why the payments were made and they were for his benefit.”
Trump, who’s accused of authorizing the payments before he ran for office, has refuted Cohen’s statements and has not been alleged to have broken any laws in connection with the matter.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/08/politics/john-dean-donald-trump-impeachment-proceedings-cnntv/index.html
