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1. Bezos' Washington Post wouldn't publish Woodward and Bernstein's break-in stories, Murdoch's FOX News would

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2026, 09:12 AM

19 hrs ago

ignore Nixon's crimes, Musk's Twitter would ban all comments about it, and Trump's DOJ and FBI would never prosecute. So, yeah, JD...Watergate would probably be a 12-hour story today.

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JD Vance says that the Watergate scandal would be a 12 hour story? [View all] imanamerican63 19 hrs ago OP

Bezos' Washington Post wouldn't publish Woodward and Bernstein's break-in stories, Murdoch's FOX News would sop 19 hrs ago #1

Newsflash for JD Vance who wasn't born until livetohike 19 hrs ago #2

James Bowman is normalizing crime and wants to jail those who do good Blue Owl 18 hrs ago #3

He's probably right... kentuck 18 hrs ago #4

;-{) THIS Goonch 18 hrs ago #5

The Epstein Files and Panama Papers LessAspin 5 hrs ago #6

I'm actually old enough to remember this. Morbius 5 hrs ago #7

The break-in happened in June 1972 misanthrope 4 hrs ago #9

"WE commit a.crime like Watergate every twelve hours! We call that flooding the zone!" struggle4progress 4 hrs ago #8