Was this a parody/joke article? I can't tell because that actually sounds like something that people would respond with and think they're making a point.
Replace Chappaquiddick with Benghazi. Replace John Dean with all those Impeachment hearings witnesses. Replace Agnew with Pence. Replace Watergate with Ukraine. Replace Daniel Ellsberg and Pentagon Papers with Whistleblower. Replace McGovern with Hillary. Replace Franklin D. Roosevelt with Obama. Replace Haldeman and Ehrlichman with Giuliani and Sondland.
1.) Everyone does it. 2.) What about Benghazi\Clinton's emails? 3.) A president can't keep track of what his staff/lawyer does. 4.)The Fake Media is blowing this whole thing up. 5.)Whatever Trump did was for National security. 6.)The Democrats are sore cucks because they lost the election. 7.)Are you going to believe all these traitor impeachment witnesses or the president? 8.)Wait til all the facts come out. 9.) What about Benghazi\Clinton's emails? 10.) If you impeach Trump you get Pence. 11.) There was no quid pro quo! Even if there was, it doesn't matter. 12.)What about the whistleblower being a liberal? 13.) It happens in dictatorships all the time. 14.)People would be against Trump no matter what he does. 15.) I would rather have a crook/liar in tbe whitehouse than a crook....uh Hillary...Lock Her UP 16.) Bill Clinton raped a bunch of women 17.) What is the big deal about finding out what your opposition is up to? 18.)The president is too busy running...golfing to know what is going on. 19.)What about Benghazi/Clinton's emails? 20.) People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. 21.)Hillary would have lost anyways. 22.)Maybe Guialiani, Trumps Children \son and law\all the staff that got caught, went a little far, but they were all just eager to please. 23.)I am not one for breaking the law, but if Trump does it, it's ok because he is making America great again. 24.)Trump is draining the swamp 25.)Do you know what Urkaine is doing for the dollar abroad? 26.) Biden made Urkaine fire the prosecutor who was overseeing the Burisma case. 27.)Obama did a lot worse things. 28.) I am sick and tired of hearing about this witch hunt and so is everyone else. 29.)The hearings should all be public and Schiff should not be overseeing them. 30.)When Trump gives his explanation of what happened there are going to be a lot of people in this country with egg on their face. 31.) My country right or wrong. 32.) What about Benghazi\Clinton's emails? 33.) I think people who make all this fuss about Ukraine/Russia should be deported. 34.)The Democrats would have done the same thing. 35.)I never trusted Guiliani and Barr anyway. 36.)If you say one more thing about Urkaine I will punch you in the face. A.) If the person is a Republican that disagrees with them, - "You kerp talking bout Ukraine and I'll have to think you are really a Democrat." B.) If the person is a Democrat who continues to throw irrefutable evidence at them, - "What about Benghazi/Clinton's emails."