Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan told Newsmax TV on Tuesday that President Donald Trump averted the "second Cold War" and Buchanan added a slam of the "absurd" fallout over misspoken comments at the press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"He clearly does not want a second Cold War," Buchanan, 79, who served in the Nixon and Reagan administrations, told Newsmax TV host John Cardillo for an interview on "Newsmax Now."
"Yet, there are people inside this Beltway who want it and believe it's necessary," he said. "That's the historic point of the whole seven days.
"But as for what happened at the press conference," Buchanan continued, "clearly the president misspoke, and he's corrected himself.
"I've never seen such a hostile media.
"It is real hysteria — and many of these individuals are supposed to be not commentators but objective, neutral journalists."
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Buchanan said Trump's slip-up was being incorrectly compared to "Kristallnacht and Pearl Harbor and 9/11 and other historical events — and it is just absurd.
"It's hard for me to see how any of these journalists go back to being objective correspondents in the White House press corps after this performance.
"Whatever Mr. Trump said, it's not a capital offense," he told Cardillo. "It's not a hanging offense — and he's corrected himself."
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