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Ronald Reagan to JD Vance: minimizing Watergate is a Republican tradition | Rick Perlstein https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/28/reagan-jd-vance-nixon-watergate-republicans #Republicans #JdVance #Watergate #UsPolitics #TrumpAdministration #RonaldReagan #RichardNixon #UsCrime #UsNews #WorldNews

Ronald Reagan to JD Vance: minimizing Watergate is a Republican tradition

On the American right, there is an unbroken lineage of Watergate propaganda going back to the 70s from today

The Guardian

Scott Lucas 7h ago

RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/116826467836543098

Taking apart #JDVance motives, trying to bury attention to current issues of corruption and criminal activity, in dismissal of #Watergate

“Hey, corruption, hey, abuse of power and the Constitution, so what about it? Because in 12 hours, we’ll be talking about something else"

#Trump #TrumpFelon

Scott Lucas 7h ago

EA on LBC: #JDVance — Corruption and Crime in US Presidency is No Big Deal (Scott Lucas with Matthew Wright)

#Watergate #Trump #TrumpFelon

https://eaworldview.com/2026/06/j-d-vance-corruption-and-crime-in-us-presidency-is-no-big-deal/

John Autry 16h ago

June 27, 1973 - President Nixon's former White House counsel, John W. Dean, III, told the Senate Watergate Committee about Nixon's “enemies list.” He released a 1971 memo, written by presidential advisor (now Rev.) Charles Colson, proposing the use of "available federal machinery to screw our political enemies."

Twenty persons were to be subjected to IRS audits, litigation, prosecution, or denial of federal grants, and an additional list contained 200 names of other individuals and organizations considered enemies of the administration.

The president's misuse of government agencies and powers, in pursuing those he saw as his political enemies, was the basis for one of the articles of impeachment that forced Nixon from office.

#JohnDean #Watergate

Dr. Alexandria Brangwin 🇦🇺17h ago

#Watergate is two things.
-A terrible thing republicans are trying to turn into a setup through you not caring enough about truth to push back.
-The genesis of every damned press hack adding the word "gate" to everything when there is a scandal of ANY size.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7ksbxruddrzxyof3h4hv34hz/post/3mpcf3duqys2f

NBES 19h ago

La percepción de los #escándalos políticos ha mutado en la era de #DonaldTrump. Según analistas, un entorno mediático fragmentado explica por qué eventos como #Watergate hoy tendrían un impacto político menor en la opinión pública de #EstadosUnidos frente al #partidismo actual

Más info: https://nbes.blog/watergate-actual-episodio-pasajero-historia-puede/

NYT > U.S.1d ago

Watergate Today as a Blip of a Story? Vance Might Not Be Entirely Wrong.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/us/politics/watergate-vance-trump-nixon.html

#USPolitics #Watergate #History

Watergate Today as a Blip of a Story? Vance Might Not Be Entirely Wrong.

Nixon’s offenses were not a deep-state invention. But in the age of Donald Trump, and in a fractured media environment, voters have become more inured to political scandal.

The New York Times

News 1d ago

JD Vance says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would be ‘12-hour news story’ today

Vice-president declares admiration for 37th president and claims Nixon and Trump are targeted by ‘deep state’ forces

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/jd-vance-watergate-richard-nixon

#TopNews #News #Nixon #Watergate #Vance

Bruce Mirken 1d ago

Oh good lord. #JDVance on #Nixon and #Watergate: “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." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/jd-vance-watergate-richard-nixon

JD Vance says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would be ‘12-hour news story’ today

Vice-president declares admiration for 37th president and claims Nixon and Trump are targeted by ‘deep state’ forces

The Guardian

David Scott Moyer 1d ago

Yup. #JDVance is really fucking stupid.
#Nixon #Watergate
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/us/politics/vance-nixon-watergate-deep-state.html

Vance Downplays Watergate and Compares Himself to Nixon

The vice president said that the scandal that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency would be “like a 12-hour news story” if it happened today and that the “deep state” had taken down Nixon.

The New York Times