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Watergate whistleblower John Dean has slammed former President Donald Trump's comparison of the FBI's search of his Mar-a-Lago resort to Richard Nixon's 1972 scandal.
"It's pathetic. It shows he has no knowledge of what happened with Watergate," Dean told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday evening.
"Watergate was much more than a break-in of course. There was a cover-up and really it brought forth the evidence of Nixon's abuse of power," he added.
Dean also bashed Trump's lashing out at the FBI and the Department of Justice, comparing it to how Nixon reacted to his downfall because of Watergate.
"Nixon was an institutionalist. He wouldn't attack the FBI or Department of Justice in a blatant and blind way that Trump is. He knew those people," Dean said.
"These are hard-working people who really have the best interests of the country in mind," he continued. "So I think Trump's attacks are so far...
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