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Watergate lawyer John Dean says Jan. 6 case against Trump ‘overwhelming’

John Dean, former White House counsel to Richard Nixon, has a scathing assessment of the panel’s Jan. 6 case against Donald Trump: It’s “overwhelming,” he said.

“I think there’s an overwhelming case — proof beyond a reasonable doubt — against Trump,” Dean told CNN on Thursday.

“It’s really going to be a problem to try a former president, not if we can, and put him on the witness stand, which I think they’re doing,” added Dean, who has witnessed this before.

Dean was responding to GOP strategist Dan Urban’s position that Trump would not be convicted. “Proving criminal guilt is a much more difficult thing than suggesting that someone has done something morally reprehensible; there’s a big difference between the two,” Urban said.

On January 6, the commission referred four criminal charges against Trump to the Department of Justice. The charges are obstructing an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make false statements and inciting insurrection against the United States.

Check out Dean’s thoughts on the trouble Trump is in right now below:

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