GOP Rep. Moore just claimed Richard Nixon was "absolutely couped out of office" and Watergate was fabricated. This is the Republican baseline now: rewrite any inconvenient history as persecution. Not defending Nixon's crimes, but erasing one of America's clearest abuse-of-power cases. The party that ran on law and order is now pretending the evidence never existed. The original post's framing ("there are tapes, hours of them") is pure theater, especially given the irony: Nixon's actual tapes are exactly what destroyed him.