“Fox & Friends” has a simple solution to get President Donald Trump to stop calling the press “the enemy of the people,” a phrase frequently used by  20th century dictators like Stalin, and also frequently by President Trump.

“How frustrating would it be if you are the President of the United States and every single time you turn on the TV on most of the channels they are misconstruing what you say?” “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked, as Mediaite reports.

“You know your heart and you know your words and your voice and you watch what other people report on what you say and it’s completely different than what you mean,” she continued. “That has to be frustrating. That’s why he is calling it fake news.”

“He’s saying if you don’t want to be called the enemy, then get the story right, be accurate and report the story the way I want it reported,” she concluded.

Co-host Brian Kilmeade agreed, saying, “I think that’s a good point.”

Watch:

Ainsley Earhardt sympathetically says Trump is telling the press that if they don’t want to be called the ‘enemy of the people,’ they just have to report on stories the way Trump wants them to. pic.twitter.com/LD5qNNGhfb

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) November 1, 2018

To be clear, Trump calls “fake news” anything he doesn’t like, even when the story is entirely accurate, and even yesterday admitted he tells the truth only when he can.

Thanks to Media Matters for America’s Bobby Lewis for posting the video.

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday defiantly defended President Donald Trump after he mocked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

During a discussion at The Atlantic Festival, Graham was asked how he felt about Trump’s remarks at a Tuesday rally, where he made fun of Ford’s memory gaps.

“Everything he said was factual,” Graham insisted.

“Factual? It was a personal degrading attack on someone who’s a private citizen,” the moderator noted.

“No,” Graham shot back. “Here’s what’s personally degrading, ‘This is what you get when you go through a trailer park with $100 bill.’”

The audience gasped.

Graham apparently was referring to comment made by James Carville in the 1990s about women who accused then-President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct.

“Sometimes people are accused of something they didn’t do.” Graham said. “So President Trump went through a factual rendition on Ford] that I didn’t particularly like and I would tell him [to] knock it off.”

“But it can be worse,” he added. “You can actually kill somebody’s cat and puncture their tires to get them to shut up.”

“I don’t even understand what means,” the moderator replied.

Graham explained that the comment was in reference to Bill Clinton’s scandals.

“The point is that Donald Trump could have said something even worse?” the moderator pressed.

“The point is that we’ve come a long way!” Graham exclaimed. “Whether you like it of not, I really don’t care. Here’s the point, I have seen what happened to these women in 1998 that came forward. I don’t like what the president said last night.”

The South Carolina Republican insisted that Ford was “treated respectfully” by the Senate Judiciary Committee and that Kavanaugh “was treated like crap.”

The remark earned Graham loud boos from the audience.

“Yeah, well, boo yourself,” Graham chided. “I really believe that Brett Kavanaugh is not a gang rapist, a sexual predator or a stumbling, bumbling drunk. I really believe that and I don’t care whether you believe it or not.”

Watch the video below.

Chairwoman of the Republican Party Ronna McDaniel issued a stunning statement threatening Americans Wednesday evening: embrace the Trump agenda. If you don’t you “will be making a mistake.”

Former Office of Government Ethics chief Walter Shaub was among the first to make clear that yes, the GOP chair seemed to be threatening Americans.

That sounds like a threat.

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 14, 2018

Others responded similarly.

Will the RNC be offering an official Trump brand so everyone can sear His name on their bodies as a sign of loyalty?

Asking for a friend. https://t.co/pSU75thK9b

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 14, 2018

What in the actual hell…. is this a threat Ronna? https://t.co/HFz5zltzxK

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) June 14, 2018

The @GOP Chairwoman: “Turn a blind eye to mobster Donald Trump’s crimes — or wake up with a horse’s head in your bed. Capisce?” https://t.co/Pm3fwadFzJ

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) June 14, 2018

your friendly fascist threat of the day. https://t.co/jHjUdPHoTz

— Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) June 14, 2018

McDaniels’ threat comes on the heels of at least two Republicans calling the Trump administration a cult.

“We are in a strange place,” U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) said this week. “I mean, it’s almost, it’s becoming a cultish thing, isn’t it? And it’s not a good place for any party to end up with a cult-like situation as it relates to a president that happens to be of — purportedly, of the same party.”

And MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough made a similar remark this week.

“Why don’t we just say it has devolved into a cult? Primary voters in the Republican Party have devolved into a Trumpist cult,” Scarborough, a former Republican Congressman, said.

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