Who cares what John Dean thinks? The former White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon played a pivotal role in the first and only presidential resignation involving the famed Watergate Scandal of 1973-74.

Dean appeared before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Monday June 10th. He was asked to appear by committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) to discuss the similarities between the Watergate Scandal and FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on suspected collusion between President Trump’s presidential campaign of 2016 and Russian entities, plus alleged obstruction of justice of the part of President Trump over the firing of FBI Director James Comey.

Mueller’s report concluded that no collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russians had occurred. The report left open some 10 areas of murky details that some think show that President Trump did obstruct justice, but no conclusions were reached by Mueller’s team of investigators leaving those decisions to the new U.S. Attorney General William Barr who concluded that no obstruction of justice had occurred. So the House Judiciary Committee has taken it upon themselves to reinvestigate the entire Mueller Report while doing no real work for the American people.

Back in the day the Watergate Hearings were broadcast live to the nation. Day after day these hearings riveted the nation. Revelation after revelation was revealed. Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward kept breaking new news about the cover-up/scandal in what later was immortalized in the movie “All the President’s Men.”

Woodward’s and Bernstein’s reporting directly led to President Nixon’s resignation. They both won journalism’s highest award the Pulitzer Prize.

Meanwhile Dean’s appearance before Congress on June 10 was a pure and simple political stunt. They dug up this convicted felon who turned against Nixon in order to save his own neck. This 80-year-old former presidential lawyer who served 1970 to 1973 was convicted on one-count of felony obstruction of justice and he served his sentence in a federal prison near Baltimore.

Since that time Dean wrote a series of books about those dark days and gave lectures around the USA. He also is a paid political commentator on CNN and a long-standing, well-documented ‘Trump Hater.’

During Monday’s committee hearing Dean suggested to the committee that they use the Mueller report as a “road map” to pursue suspected wrong doing on the part of President Trump.

“To dredge up Dean was a dog and pony show and a complete embarrassment … it’s a sad, sad day for the country as well,” said White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders in a Tuesday morning TV news interview.

In the sands of time Dean’s appearance before the committee will not be remembered. It truly was a big waste of time and an act of desperation on the part of Nadler and his fellow committee members who have put themselves in a corner with nowhere to go. There is no path to impeachment of President Trump let alone removal from office. Not this path or any other path. These Washington Democrats simply will not be successful in getting rid of Trump before the national election in November 2020. Their efforts are futile and not worthy. It will be and should be the voters who keep President Trump or fire him.

It’s worth remembering in 1972 President Nixon won a second term in an electoral landslide election against Democrat George McGovern only to resign the presidency Aug. 9, 1974. Using history as a guide the Democrats will continue to pursue President Trump after his reelection in 2020.

This continuing presidential harassment by the Democrats will cost them dearly as the “road map” leads directly back to the Democrats and their collusion with high officials in the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI during campaign 2016.

What goes around comes around.

About the Author Britt Nelson relocated to Costa Rica in 2011 from Florida, where he served as news editor for the Palatka Daily News, a newspaper owned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group (NYT-RNG) for 20 years.

Nelson served the NYT-RNG for 18 years in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as a correspondent, reporter, staff writer, senior staff writer training new reporters, copy editor, page designer, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editorial board member.