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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 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 administration.”
Trump was impeached twice during his first term and acquitted by the Senate both times. The first impeachment stemmed from a reported pressure campaign on Ukraine, and the second followed the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in which the president was accused of inciting an insurrection.
Nixon resigned under the threat of impeachment.
Vance also did not hesitate to compare himself to Nixon, whose legacy he said was “enjoying a bit of a renaissance.”
“Young senator, vice president, writes some bestselling books, is hated by the media,” Vance said. “Kind of sounds like JD Vance.”
Vance was at the Nixon library to promote his new book, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” which explores his journey from his upbringing as a Protestant to his conversion to Catholicism in summer 2019.
He is widely expected to be a contender for the GOP presidential nomination in 2028, with a recent poll showing him neck and neck with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a hypothetical primary match-up.
Trump has floated the pair as a potential “dream team,” telling attendees at a White House event in May that they would make a “good ticket.”
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