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Just before the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) went live on Thursday night, President Donald Trump unleashed on the principled conservatives of the House Freedom Caucus in his latest Twitter tirade. And as the networks came on the air, they were eating it all up. “President Trump with a tweet storm, naming names, after his failure on health care, ObamaCare still the law of the land,” hyped ABC Anchor David Muir on World News Tonight, “And President Trump is making it clear who he blames. Some conservative Republicans who did not vote for the president's plan.”
“The President today making a declaration of war in 140 characters or less. Going after some in his own party, those conservatives blamed for derailing health care,” flaunted Senior White House Correspondent Cecilia Vega as she read from Trump’s tweets, “The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team and fast. We must fight them and Dems in 2018.”
Many in the Freedom Caucus made their way to Washington in the Tea Party tsunami during the first part of the Obama Administration. Ever since they returned the House of Representatives back over to Republican control, the liberal media have had them in their sights. And with Trump’s new threat of attempting to primary out the caucus, the networks were all hot and bothered at the prospect.
“But today he declared political war on his ‘Friends,’” reported Chip Reid on CBS Evening News, “Reports say caucus member Mark Sandford was told the President wants someone to run against him in next year's Republican primary.”
In an interview with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell, which aired earlier in the day, House Speaker Paul Ryan discussed how he didn’t like the President’s threats to seek aid from Democrats. “That prompted Tennessee Senator Bob Corker,” explained Reid as he smeared Republicans, “known for reaching across the aisle, to join the Republican circular firing squad, tweeting: ‘We have come a long way in our country when the speaker of one party urges the president NOT to work with the other party to solve a problem.’”
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