Vice President JD Vance pulled up to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, on Thursday to promote his new book, Communion. While he was there, he talked about his spiritual path from being an atheist to converting to Catholicism. But Vance didn't just talk about religion; he kept it real on how the game of politics is played in Washington, taking aim at the legendary Watergate scandal.

According to Vance, the whole Watergate situation wouldn't even survive a single day on today's timeline. "If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be a 12-hour news story," the VP told the crowd. He straight up dismissed the idea that the scandal would force a president out today, saying, "The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy." In today's wild, split-screen media landscape, everybody has their own version of the truth, and a president can just block out the noise.

For those who need a quick history lesson, Watergate went down back in 1972 when some operatives tied to Nixon’s re-election team got caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in D.C. It was the biggest political scandal of the 20th century, and it forced Nixon to pack his bags and resign during his second term before the Senate could officially kick him out.

But Vance is saying the feds and the media have been using the same dirty playbook for decades. He drew a straight line from Nixon's downfall to the constant attacks on Donald Trump. "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," Vance said. "There is a parallel."

Trump, who ran the country as the 45th president and is now back as the 47th, got impeached twice by his haters in Congress. The first time, they tried to take him out for pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to dig up dirt on Joe Biden while holding back their military money. The second time, they blamed him for the crowd of supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6 after his campaign to contest the election failed. Both times, Trump beat the rap in the Senate.

While the mainstream media wants everyone to think Nixon was nothing but a villain, Vance says his legacy is actually getting a well-deserved renaissance. He reminded the crowd that Nixon was a "political genius" who ended the Vietnam War and opened up trade with China. He’s telling people to look at the receipts instead of just listening to the talking heads.