In his syndicated column yesterday, Pat Buchanan defended President Trump’s decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey. While the White House initially said that Comey was fired as a result of the way he publicly handled the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails, Trump subsequently said he fired Comey because he was upset about the investigation into ties between Trump’s circle and the Russian government.

While once again positively comparing Trump to Richard Nixon, Buchanan stated that the same media “hysteria” over Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre is now hounding Trump.

“Yet that was not a constitutional crisis then, and the mandated early retirement of Jim Comey is not a constitutional crisis now,” he said. “And that the mainstream media are equating ‘Russia-gate’ and Watergate tells you what is afoot. Trump is hated by this city, which gave him 4 percent of its votes, as much as Nixon was. And the deep-state determination to bring him down is as great as it was with Nixon.”

Buchanan said that the people questioning the Trump-Russia relationship are practicing “McCarthyism” and wondered if “the endless airing of unproven allegations” is “inherently un-American.”