Michael Cohen ‘identified Trump as a criminal’, says key Watergate witness

John Dean, a key witness in the Watergate scandal that engulfed former President Richard Nixon, says Donald Trump’s personal attorney has identified the president as a “criminal” and implicated him in a “campaign conspiracy”. Mr Dean served as White House counsel for Mr Nixon from July 1970 to April 1973, and aided in the cover-up of the Watergate burglaries. The story shares parallels with that of Michael Cohen, Mr Trump’s long-time attorney and personal “fixer,” who pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges of tax fraud, making false statements to a bank, and campaign finance violations.