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Earlier, I wrote about Trump’s campaign, via racist troll Milo Yiannopoulos, getting some push-back from the mainstream media. It’s happened again as conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham tried to push a blatant lie down the throat of CBS News’ Sopan Deb, who was covering Trump’s publicity stunt at a black Detroit congregation this morning.

Laura Ingrham tweeted,

How convenient that at one of the most compelling moments of @realDonaldTrump appearance in Detroit, the @CNN satellite feed dropped. — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) September 3, 2016

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Sopan Deb wasted no time setting Ingraham straight, tweeting back:

Totally inaccurate. I was the pool producer. We were forced to pack up our cameras and leave during this. https://t.co/IGG5CcYJT7 — Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 3, 2016

He followed this up with another tweet:

If you want to make this an issue, please take it up with the campaign. We tried to stay and shoot this whole thing https://t.co/IGG5CcYJT7 — Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 3, 2016

The Associated Press’ Jill Colvin had this to add:

@SopanDeb @IngrahamAngle @realDonaldTrump @CNN Pool was ushered out by campaign staff while Trump was still on stage. — Jill Colvin (@colvinj) September 3, 2016

One wit had perhaps the best response to the whole affair, tweeting,

@SopanDeb @IngrahamAngle @realDonaldTrump @CNN Must have been an act of God…he knows a fraud when he sees one. — Chippi Socha (@chippisocha) September 3, 2016

Couldn’t have said it better. Far from being persecuted by the mainstream media, Trump is continuing to bring on his own problems with the press and its constitutional freedoms, content to blame them for his mistakes, or to let low-information surrogates like Laura Ingraham, who, like Trump, can’t be bothered to check the facts, do it for him.

This time it didn’t work as, happily, the media stepped up and quickly slapped down the lie.