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Nixon's White House Counsel Thinks Trump Is Acting Like A 7-Year-Old

Donald Trump is lashing out like a child.

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cartoon trump[Donald Trump] seems to be a man that projects onto others what is falling on him. We saw it during the campaign. When Hillary Rodham Clinton called him Putin’s puppet, he turned around and called Hillary Putin’s puppet. Something like a 7-year-old might… He does this on a larger scale. I think he sees the Watergate type atmosphere descending on his White House, so he is now turning around and charging it against Obama to try to deflect attention off of himself. That’s the only explanation I can see.

—John Dean, White House Counsel under Richard Nixon, commenting on Donald Trump’s tweets claiming that Barack Obama wiretapped his phone and invoking the specter of Watergate in doing so. Dean went on to note that if Trump really has nothing to hide, it’d be smart for him to agree to a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of his ties to Russia.

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