VP JD Vance likens Watergate to modern scandals at book tour

Vice President JD Vance argued that the Watergate scandal would be a fleeting news story in today's media environment and drew parallels between the political forces that targeted former President Richard Nixon and those that challenged former President Donald Trump. Vance made the remarks on Thursday, June 25, during an appearance at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, where he was promoting his new memoir, "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith."

Speaking about Nixon, who resigned in 1974 amid the Watergate cover-up, Vance said the 37th president's legacy is undergoing a deserved renaissance. He contended that modern scandals unfold at a different pace. "If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story," Vance said. "The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy."

The vice president then connected Nixon's experience to that of 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," Vance stated. Trump was impeached twice by...