Sunday on New York WABC 770 AM radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” conservative commentator Pat Buchanan likened the treatment of former President Donald Trump over the January 6 Capitol riot to that of his former boss, former President Richard Nixon.
Buchanan argued Democrats have been using the riot to “destroy” Trump and prevent him from running again.
“They are using [January 6] to destroy Donald Trump and to prevent Donald Trump from ever running again because that is the great fear here, “Buchanan outlined. “They are exploiting it. I went through an occasion like this … with Richard Nixon during Watergate. There was no doubt that there were people lined up to break into Watergate and bug the telephones of the DNC. While it was an outrage, it was not unusual in politics. But the handling of that by Nixon was used to destroy a president who had won 49…