The media’s ‘jihad’ to debunk the anti-malaria drug that President Trump has touted as a possible treatment for coronavirus is a shining example of how unhinged many reporters have become in their hope to take down the president, Buck Sexton, the host of “The Buck Sexton Show,” said Thursday.

Sexton said watching “morons from CNN" rush to knock hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness and possible side effects is something to behold.

“Look, if the drug doesn’t work, of course I don’t want people to take it, no one wants people to take it,” Sexton said. But he said the attempt by many in the media to write the drug off just because of their distaste for Trump is reprehensible.

“They are obviously willing to attack a drug and attack hope for patients in the hospital,” Sexton said. “We’re finding out if it works or not. I don’t need idiots at CNN saying, ‘Oh, the drug, if you take 10 times the recommended dose, you could die.’ Thanks, morons. We know that.”

Sexton pointed to Attorney General William Barr’s interview on Fox News Wednesday night where the country’s top lawyer criticized what he saw as partisan attacks against the president.

Barr called out the media’s criticism of hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that shows promise when given to severe COVID-19 patients with antibiotics. He said the media has been on a “jihad” to discredit the drug.

“It’s quite strange,” he said.

Barr said he thought Trump was “statesmanlike” at the beginning of the pandemic but started to lose his patience as he started getting peppered with silly "gotcha questions".

Sexton joked that Barr must listen to his show because he employs the word “jihad” to describe journalistic malfeasance at a large scale, too. But he said Barr is correct in his assessment.