The Mueller report-fueled explosion of headlines suggesting President Trump is a crook is evidence that the media is still seeking retribution for the 2016 election outcome with the removal of the president, according to conservative news mogul Mark Levin.

The author, radio, and internet TV host said the media’s reaction to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, and Attorney General William Barr’s portrayal of it, is also a sign of how tied many are to the Democratic anti-Trump movement.

“As a group, they are offended that they were unable to successfully influence the outcome of the last presidential election, and they seek retribution,” said Levin.

“Today, having failed in their collusion narrative, the Democratic Party-press, as I characterize them, are unfazed, as they push obstruction, impeachment, and ultimately, their desired removal of the president,” he told Secrets.

Levin has long been critical of the liberal media, and he is about to widen that criticism in a new book, "Unfreedom of the Press," out May 21.

In a description of it on his Blaze TV show, Levin said that the book, published by Threshold Editions, will detail the history of press bias and its effort to promote progressive policies and diminish conservative initiatives.

He also takes on the Trump-media battle.

“This president has been accused of leading a war against the media,” he said on his show.

“Is Donald Trump a great threat to freedom of the press? What has Donald Trump done exactly to freedom of the press? He’s done exactly nothing. He directs his anger, correctly, and disappointment at specific news organizations and specific reporters, he’ll call them here and there ‘enemy of the people,’ and they say, ‘That’s just like Stalin,'” he said.

“Let me tell you something folks. Donald Trump has done nothing to the media,” he added.

To Secrets, he said that the media reaction to the Mueller report is “par for the course.”

He said, “the reason is that most newsrooms and journalists share the progressive ideology and Democratic Party policy agenda, and are increasingly inclined to show it by their ‘news coverage.’ The reporting is less about news and more about opinion and social activism ... and their contempt for President Trump extends to his supporters. The public sees it. As a result, the modern media contributes significantly to the growing divide and even anger in our society.”