Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said the media helped force Michael Flynn out of his post as President Trump’s national security adviser.

“We have a political assassination that’s taken place here,” he said on his radio show Tuesday while discussing Flynn’s resignation the day before. "The media’s going to try as hard they can not to let go of this, because now they’ve got their scalp."

“They think they have blood in the water, they’ve got a scalp and they think they can get another and then another and then another and then another until finally they get Trump.”

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Limbaugh said extensive news coverage of Flynn’s past phone conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak is the latest evidence the media will constantly impede the Trump administration.

“They have become the full-fledged resistance to Trump and they have decided that that’s going to be their modus operandi for the next four years,” he said. "They’re not gonna do the news. They have now mobilized and made it official, they’re even talking about it, some of them are, on [the] cable networks."

“I mean, they disguise the words they use, but the impact is clear that they are going to do everything they can to get Trump out of Washington and out of the White House and out of office.”

Flynn resigned late Monday amid reports he misled senior White House officials about his discussions with Kislyak before Trump entered office.

The retired Army lieutenant general blamed the “fast pace of events” for why he “inadvertently” gave “incomplete information” to Vice President Mike Pence Michael (Mike) Richard PenceGOP short of votes on Trump's controversial Fed pick Pence seeks to boost Daines in critical Montana Senate race The Hill's Campaign Report: Trump's rally risk | Biden ramps up legal team | Biden hits Trump over climate policy MORE and others about the talks. He said just before resigning that he spoke with the ambassador specifically about the 35 Russian officials that were expelled from the U.S. as part of the Obama administration's sanctions but that "no lines were crossed."

Reports emerged last week that Flynn and Kislyak discussed sanctions against Russia during a series of phone calls in December.

Pence had previously denied Flynn and Kislyak ever spoke about sanctions.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday Trump asked for Flynn’s resignation once the president’s faith in his adviser “eroded” following the reports.