Vance: Watergate would be "a 12-hour news story" today
June 26, 2026
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as posted by the channelVice President JD Vance sympathized with former President Richard Nixon, saying he was forced out of office by the "deep state" over the Watergate scandal, which he argued would barely register in today's news cycle.
"If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story," he said Thursday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California. "The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy."
The vice president, speaking during a tour promoting his new book, "Communion," also drew parallels between the 37th president and President Trump.
"If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it's not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump in the first Trump administration," he said.
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