Breitbart News sees a different Nixon parallel.

Just as the media set out to destroy Nixon, Breitbart suggested, it was now seeking to destroy Trump. While other stories about the Nixon comparison have quoted such Nixon aides as John Dean, who helped bring him down by testifying against him, this one quoted conservative commentator and former Nixon aide Pat Buchanan issuing a warning.

The all-caps headline said: “Buchanan: Bannon is ‘right’ — media is the opposition party trying to ‘bring down Trump.’”

It was a reference to remarks by White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, Breitbart’s former executive chairman, who called news organizations “the opposition party” in a January interview with the New York Times.

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Speaking with Newsmax TV on Wednesday, Buchanan had offered a similar assessment — one Breitbart found appealing enough to put at the top of its homepage.

Buchanan said a left-wing “conglomerate” had emerged against Trump, hellbent on bringing him down. It was that same conglomerate, he said, that had ruined Nixon.

“It’s not a conspiracy but it is collusion. And they were determined to break and bring down Nixon from the day he was nominated,” said Buchanan, who also served under Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan and made three runs at the presidency as an anti-immigration populist.

“And the same forces, similar forces are trying to break and bring down Trump. And it’s transparent. It’s right in front of us.”

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Buchanan was a speechwriter and special assistant to the president and vice president during the Nixon administration. At the height of the Watergate scandal, he urged Nixon to fire Cox and burn crucial Oval Office recordings rather than turn them over to investigators. He recently released a book about his work in the Nixon administration, subtitled “The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”

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Referring to Cox as a “viper,” Buchanan told Newsmax that there was no parallel between his dismissal and Comey’s.

“It’s absurdity to compare the two or equate the two,” he said. “One of them is an enormous event in American history, and this is just a removal of a controversial FBI director.”