By Alexis Benveniste, CNN BusinessVeteran journalist and author Carl Bernstein called former President Donald Trump a “war criminal” on “Reliable Sources” Sunday. “I think we need to calmly step back and maybe look at Trump in a different context,” Bernstein told CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter, adding that Trump is “our own American war criminal.”Bernstein’s comments come as Trump’s election lies resurfaced in the news following a speech the former president delivered in Arizona Saturday. In labeling Trump a war criminal, Bernstein specifically pointed to his administration’s response to the Covid-19 health crisis and the January 6 Capitol riot. Bernstein has been a very vocal critic of Trump. In February, following the Capitol riot, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he considered the ex-president to be the “first seditious president in our history.”The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company.