Fox News' "The Five" co-host Greg Gutfeld defended President Donald Trump's anti-CNN tweet during the Arizona funeral service for the late Sen. John McCain on Thursday, saying Trump "is like a heckler behind the dugout."
"I am glad he was tweeting about this and not about the funeral," Gutfeld said, stressing Trump's frequent tweetstorms targeting CNN are fair play considering "the decades" the media spent "punching conservatives."
"Trump is like a heckler behind the dugout," Gutfeld said. "He can sense the central weakness of the pitcher — in this case, CNN. He won't stop until he throws the mitt down and runs to the stands to fight."
"He is giving CNN the CNN treatment because they made that [Trump Tower] meeting story into a relentless bombshell," he said, referring to a CNN report in June that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen claimed Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting. A source for the story then backed away from it, The New York Times reported.
Trump tweeted CNN was "caught in a major lie" with its report.
"Every newscaster was having a conniption about it," Gutfeld said. "Now that story seems to be falling apart, and Trump is giving CNN the relentless falling apart story and he will not let go.
"I think it is even-steven. Whenever I get a little bit upset or annoyed about the tweeting, I remember the media spent decades punching at conservatives — probably since the Vietnam war. Now, somebody is punching back and they are crying foul.
"It's hard for me to sympathize with the media when they are complaining because the left and they have been interchangeable since Vietnam. We are going to need a lot of Trump tweets to even the score."
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