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Vice President JD Vance called it \u201ccrazy\u201d that the Watergate scandal toppled Richard Nixon\u2019s presidency, saying it would have barely registered in today\u2019s political environment.<\/p>\n
While promoting his new book at the Nixon presidential library in California, Vance said he had \u201calways liked\u201d the former president who resigned under a cloud of scandal. He drew parallels between Nixon and President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican who was impeached twice during his first term, saying they were both targeted by \u201cdeep state\u201d forces.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy,\u201d Vance said Thursday.<\/p>\n
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Watergate was one of the biggest political scandals in American history. In 1972, five men hired by Nixon\u2019s reelection campaign were arrested in Washington while breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in an attempt to surveil the office.<\/p>\n
The resulting investigations eventually consumed Nixon\u2019s presidency and he resigned in August 1974 rather than face impeachment. The saga deeply eroded Americans\u2019 trust in government.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it\u2019s 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,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n
Vance, who entered politics by running successfully for Senate in Ohio and who is expected to run for president in 2028, said he shares several things in common with Nixon \u201cat a personal level.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYoung senator, vice president, write some best-selling books, is hated by the media. It kind of sounds like JD Vance,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n
Nixon served as a US senator from California and then as vice president to Dwight Eisenhower before being elected president in 1968.<\/p>\n
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