JD Vance Says Watergate Scandal Would Be '12-Hour News Story' Today

Were the vice president's remarks astute or a damning admission of the current moral degeneracy?

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Above: U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum on June 25. Image credit: Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register/Getty Images

The Spin

Pro-Trump narrative

Vance is right to make these comments as Nixon was in fact brought down by the deep state. It is astute of him to make the observation that there was an attempt to do the same thing during the first Trump presidency.

Jeffrey A Tucker on X

Anti-Trump narrative

The fact that Vance argues that breaking into opposition headquarters, bugging their offices and then enlisting the CIA to cover it up is a nothing story only speaks to the moral degeneracy we have seen under the Trump presidency.

David Axelrod on X