Mueller Report Is “More Damning Than Watergate,” Says John Dean

The Mueller Report “did not establish” conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in the 2016 U.S. election. But the report also said that while the investigation did “not conclude” Trump had criminally obstructed justice, it also “does not exonerate” him.

The report listed ten instances of possible obstruction by the president. Dean believes, based on the report, that Trump clearly obstructed justice.

“If you endeavor to obstruct — and there is much evidence here of endeavor — you’ve violated the obstruction statute,” he said in the interview, adding that the president “doesn’t give a hoot about the law.”

“One of the post-Watergate norms was that attorneys general did not serve as the president’s personal counsel,” he said. “Mr. Barr violated all the norms that had been established post-Watergate, and took us back right into Nixonian-type operations.”