“Vice President JD Vance on Thursday expressed sympathy for former president Richard M. Nixon, suggesting that Nixon was wrongly forced out as president in 1974 and comparing his political travails decades ago to those facing President Donald Trump now,” the Washington Post reports.Said Vance: “As I joked … backstage, if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy.”Bloomberg: Vance says Nixon Watergate scandal wouldn’t end a presidency now.