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Vice President JD Vance's commentary about former President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, comparing the moment to President Donald Trump, raised eyebrows online after he delivered public comments in Orange County Thursday.

Vance was speaking at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, when he described his thoughts about the nation's 37th president who resigned in 1974 — the only president in history to step down from the job.

"I'm actually fascinated by Nixon as a character in history," Vance said. "I think that his historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and I think deservedly so. As I joked with Robert backstage, if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."...

"Accountability is coming in hot" for Trump appointee Pam Bondi, according to an ex-GOP insider.

Ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson, who once said he might depose Trump in a lawsuit and force the president to explain his ties to the deceased child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, believes Bondi could face the snap back of an administration in decline.

Writing in his recent Substack post, Wilson made a comparison between Bondi and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, who found himself in a similar position when backing the administration to the hilt. Mitchell had close ties with the at-the-time president Richard Nixon, but mistook his close proximity to the administration head as protection. The same may happen to Bondi. ...

Donald Trump is acting "like [Richard] Nixon" in office, according to a political analyst who says the president is "operating with illegal abandon".

Columnist Matthew Purdy, writing in The New York Times, suggested the president is "power-hungry" and using all the tools at his disposal to walk back post-Watergate ethical rulings. Purdy argues that Trump is rolling back reforms which touched "all corners of the government" in the mid-1970s, reforms meant to "prevent a recurrence" of abuse of power.

But Trump has taken aim at the "ethical checkpoints" established post-Watergate and now looks to be acting "like Nixon", according to Purdy. ...

CHICAGO — Despite some protesters’ vows to “make it great like ’68,” history did not repeat itself, and the streets of Chicago did not descend into chaos during this year’s Democratic National Convention.

And inside the United Center, delegates cheering the presidential nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris experienced none of the turmoil that upended the 1968 convention, when security forces roughed up journalists and attacked campaign volunteers.

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Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political ambitions were in peril. He was accused of dipping into a private, $18,000 slush fund to cover expenses, and doubts about the propriety of his conduct intensified as the 1952 presidential election campaign unfolded.

Only vague signs point to the possibility of piercing Donald Trump’s orange armor and political impunity.

Trump dispatched Nikki Haley, his last serious challenger for the Republican presidential nomination, in early March. But Haley fared better than expected in May’s Indiana primary, where she was still on the ballot if not in the race, possibly indicating softness in Trump’s support.

If Trump is convicted on any of the 88 felony charges he faces in four court cases, it could cost him his freedom — and support. An ABC/Ipsos poll said one-fifth of Trump voters would either reconsider or withdraw their support if he’s convicted of a felony. ...