The vice president, fascinated by the past leader, also compared Richard Nixon to President Donald Trump and the numerous problems he faced in recent years.

The vice president, fascinated by the past leader, also compared Richard Nixon to President Donald Trump and the numerous problems he faced in recent years.

The vice president says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would just be a “12-hour news story.” That proves he knows how bad his boss really is.

"The joke is that they’re doing so many crimes now that nobody would care about Nixon," one social media user sagely noted.

"The joke is that they’re doing so many crimes now that nobody would care about Nixon," one social media user sagely noted.

J.D. Vance admired Nixon and drew parallels between the past president and Trump.

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The veep compared himself to the former president, painting him as another bad boy who overcame his snooty detractors and achieved supreme power.

It’s not every day that you see the would-be frontrunner for a major party’s presidential nomination extolling the virtues of Richard Nixon and downplaying his corruption.