Over just a few days this month, President Trump declared that CNN and MSNBC weren’t just biased — no, that would be too pedestrian — but actually illegal.

He posted that former President Biden’s pardons are “hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT,” shouting in an all-caps post on Truth Social.

He declared that a federal judge should be impeached, not for breaking the law or for gross misconduct, but for issuing a ruling Trump didn’t like.

And yet, to his base, this is just another week in the wonderful world of Trump.

No, Trump isn’t the first politician to play fast and loose with the truth, and he won’t be the last. And yes, most Americans don’t exactly trust the mainstream media. CNN and MSNBC have been carrying water for Democrats for years. If they were any further in the tank, they’d need scuba gear.

So when Trump says “they’re really corrupt and they’re illegal, what do they do is illegal,” you have to wonder what he might have in mind — especially since he took aim at the news networks in a speech at the Department of Justice. Is this a big deal? Not to his........

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