John Dean blasted Trump for comparing the FBI's Mar-a-Lago raid to the Watergate scandal.
Dean served as White House counsel for Nixon during Watergate and was involved in the cover-up.
He is now a political commentator on CNN and often criticizes Trump's actions.
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 off-base, as are the Republican party's."
Dean served as White House counsel for Nixon during the Watergate scandal. He was personally involved in the cover-up when he facilitated hush money payments to the burglars who broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in June 1972.
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