Vance: Watergate would be ‘12-hour news story’ today

Vice President Vance quipped on Thursday that the Watergate scandal that led to former President Richard Nixon’s resignation would have been a “12-hour news story” in the current media landscape.

“The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy,” Vance said during a conversation with the Richard Nixon Foundation at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif.

Nixon resigned in 1974 after investigations by the Washington Post revealed his administration and reelection campaign’s involvement in an espionage plot to gather information about Democratic rivals in the 1972 presidential election.

Vance, who said he “always liked” Nixon, drew parallels between the former president and what he described as the “deep state” actors trying to take down President Trump.

“If you look at the story of how the deep state took down........

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