'He Is Going to Test Our Democracy as It Has Never Been Tested'
Why Nixon's former lawyer John Dean worries Trump could be one of the most corrupt presidents ever—and get away with it
by McKay Coppins
Jan 17, 2017
3 minutes
Sometime early last fall, John Dean says he began having nightmares about a Trump presidency. He would wake in the middle of the night, agitated and alarmed, struggling to calm his nerves. “I’m not somebody who remembers the details of dreams,” he told me in a recent phone call from his home in Los Angeles. “I just know that they were so bad that I’d force myself awake and out of bed just to get away from them.”
Few people are more intimately acquainted
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