Buchanan to Trump White House: ‘Hang Together’

The Chinese and Indians could have been able to pump carbon emissions into the air “to their hearts’ content,” and that’s why President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accord on Thursday.

So said Pat Buchanan, President Ronald Reagan’s former communication director and a longtime conservative columnist, speaking on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

“These folks are out to bring [Trump] down. I mean, it’s the deep state, it’s the collective media.”

“It took a lot of guts and a lot of grits for Donald Trump to get up there,” said Buchanan, speaking of Trump’s announcement in the Rose Garden. “And defy the world order.”

Buchanan told Ingraham that Trump is pushing the United States back toward a vision of economic independence that Alexander Hamilton, a founding father, had.

Hamilton envisioned an able and self-sufficient America that was able to make its own arms and ships apart from Great Britain and France.

It was why the United States stood independent and prosperous in the years before World Wars I and II, and why U.S. factories were able to manage the demands during those wars.

Now, the United States depends on other nations for imported goods, at the cost of American jobs.

“What do we get for it?” said Buchanan. “A lot of stuff from Walmart. Cheap underwear from Guatemala.”

Buchanan also ridiculed the Democrats for investigating Trump despite there being no proof of wrongdoing in the 2016 election.

But he said the White House, by firing FBI Director James Comey, made a larger problem out of something “that was pretty close to being resolved.”

Buchanan said dreams of a new Watergate scandal haunt the U.S. media.

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By taking down President Richard Nixon in 1974, the media hit the “apex of happiness.” It’s an apex they wish to reach again by taking on Trump, he said.

What Trump can learn from Nixon, Buchanan said, is that there is little margin for error compared to Democratic presidents, such as paramour John F. Kennedy and sneaky Bill Clinton. The media did not care about the Democrats’ ethical or legal woes.

Trump and the GOP need to stick together, Buchanan told Ingraham on Friday morning.

“One slip and they were on [Nixon],” said Buchanan. “These folks are out to bring [Trump] down. I mean, it’s the deep state, it’s the collective media. The hostility as you mentioned is the worst I have ever seen.”

“We all hang together,” Buchanan said, chuckling. “Or we’re all going to hang separately.”