Biggest Scandals with Gate in the Title
Members of the Richard Nixon campaign burglarized the Democratic National Committee Headquarters located at the Watergate Hotel. This would be followed by Nixon covering-up his involvement. After revelations of his involvement and threatened with impeachment, Nixon ultimately resigned in 1974.
Even though other gate scandals have been worse, this should stay at the top since it provided the naming basis for every gate scandal.
As bad as this seemed at the time, subsequent political scandals like "Whitewater Gate" have been much worse.
While running for president, Donald Trump was spotted on video having a racy chat involving women. Among the things said was Trump stating that you "grab them by the p***y."
In Spygate, the Patriots were caught videotaping the defensive signals of their opposition. In Deflategate, the balls were said to have been deflated following the AFC Championship game in 2015 by the Patriots.
It's sad that people care about sports this much...
I'm a Bills fan so of course I'm voting for this one.
Upset over a controversially overturned call late in the game, Browns fans threw bottles of beers to the field, which forced the refs to end the game early.
President Jimmy Carter's brother Billy once legally represented the
Libyan government as a foreign agent and received a $220,000 loan
Between 2009-2011, it was revealed that the Saints' defensive players had received financial rewards for an illegal bounty scheme ran by defensive coordinator Gregg Williams.
On UK's version of Celebrity Big Brother, actress Roxanne Pallett accused fellow housemate, actor Ryan Thomas of deliberately and repeatedly punching her. Though Thomas would get a warning despite not doing it out of viscious, she was criticized for over-exaggerating the light play fighting and has since called it a "horrible mistake" after leaving the house and seeing the footage.
A play on the Watergate Scandal, Bart Simpson, who skipped school, had seen a waiter accidentally injure himself, but didn't tell the truth at first for realizing he would be punished by Principal Skinner. Meanwhile, another waiter was accused of beating the injured waiter. Anchorman Kent Brockman suggested the case be called "Waitergate", but was shut down. Bart eventually fesses up and tells the truth while he would get punished eventually.
Why is a fictional "Gate" on here?
In November 2002, three off-duty San Francisco police officers allegedly assaulted two civilians over a bag of steak fajitas (which were mistaken as drugs), leading to the retirement of the chief of police and the firing of his successor.
Ariana Grande was seen on video licking unpurchased doughnuts and stating "I hate Americans. I hate America. That's disgusting." As a result of the investigation, she would apologize and canceled her performance at the 2015 MLB All-Star game. But she would use oral surgery as the reason why.
There are 2 incidents called Envelope-gate. One was on the Jeremy Kyle Show involving an actual envelope being shown at Jeremy Kyle, the other was the Academy Awards fiasco involving La La Land
La La Land briefly won Best Picture for about 5 minutes until some Brokeback Mountain wannabe was announced the actual winner.
After hearing about that he was the father of his girlfriend's baby, some guy named Kev threw an envelope at Jeremy Kyle's head on air.
The phone exchange between Prince Charles and his then mistress (& now his second wife) Camilla, where they both fantasize about him being her tampon. In fact, she wished that he was a whole box of tampons for her to use!
The biggest internet war of 2014, it was started by Quinn vs Reddit, then Anita Sarkessian joined and lost due to dislikes and a subreddit was formed, etc. etc.
Super Bowl 2004 nipple incident, French people just don't understand
In Indian Politics, two politicians were watching Porn in a special meeting