Perspective: Michael Cohen’s testimony exposed a direct parallel between Trump and Watergate
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal lawyer, reads an opening statement as he testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. By Shane O’Sullivan Shane O’Sullivan is a documentary filmmaker, senior lecturer in filmmaking at Kingston University, London and author of the new book, “Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate and the CIA.
The best analogue to Cohen in the Nixon White House was John Dean, Nixon’s White House counsel. Dean directed the initial payments of hush money to the Watergate burglars, then went from architect of the coverup to whistleblower whose Senate Watergate testimony captivated the nation. After the CIA refused to play ball, Dean asked Kalmbach, Nixon’s personal attorney, to arrange clandestine payments to the burglars. Kalmbach believed there was a “moral obligation” to cover the burglars’ legal expenses and support their families, and he later claimed he was shocked to discover the money was being used to buy their silence.
McCord felt the Watergate prosecution was “fixed” to insulate the higher-ups at the White House and limit indictments to the five burglars and the men who managed the break-in team, G. Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt. Dean and the Nixon White House offered executive clemency to the burglars in exchange for their silence, and Hunt and four of the five burglars pleaded guilty. But McCord rebuffed their approaches, while also refusing plea offers from prosecutors.
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