In its coverage, CNN, whose president, Jeff Zucker, condemned Trump’s “continued attacks on the media,” has been critical of the statements made by Trump and White House officials, including press secretary Sarah Sanders, following the news of the pipe bombs. Trump and Sanders have publicly condemned the bombs, but they were both quick to accuse the “mainstream media” of exacerbating the country’s already divisive climate.

Meanwhile, Fox News — a network known for its fawning coverage of Trump and propensity for reporting the news differently from other outlets — adopted a similar stance. On Wednesday, hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham all lobbed criticisms at Democrats and the media.

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“The president condemned these acts and was immediately rebuked by the Democratic Party for condemning the acts not enough,” Carlson said on his show.

Hannity accused “the media, the left, Democrats” on his show of trying to “score cheap political points and a political victory on this.”

“The fingers pointing at Trump all day long on the other networks, which I found disgusting, continued through the night," Ingraham said during “The Ingraham Angle.”

On Thursday, CNN’s Chris Cuomo didn’t hold back, unleashing sharp rebukes of the Fox hosts, Sanders and the president himself.

“The president meant what he said last night about what he would do to make things better, which was not one damn thing,” Cuomo said, referencing Trump’s speech at a Wednesday rally in Wisconsin. “Sure enough, starting soon after the bombs were discovered and growing by the hour since, he and his Fox proxies, mouthpieces and patsies, they’ve all ratcheted up the rhetoric.”

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Yet, Cuomo pointed out, for all his talking, Trump still “hasn’t said a word about, or to,” any of the intended targets, which include, aside from his own network, former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, former vice president Joe Biden, and others.

Continuing to criticize the president for not taking “any responsibility" and his blaming of the media, Cuomo then turned to Fox.

“They sit on the couch and they listen and they nod,” Cuomo said, after playing a clip from “Fox & Friends.” “Not here.”

Trump, he said, is “surrounded by those who nod and echo his hypocrisy," adding “those doing the dance of twisted facts and false-step narratives that I’d call the fox trot,” putting particular emphasis on “fox.”

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Cuomo also referenced a now-deleted tweet from Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, who wrote “Fake News — Fake Bombs Who could possibly benefit by so much fakery?"

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On his show Thursday, Dobbs hit back at CNN for placing the blame on Trump, saying, “It’s breathtaking to me.”

Coincidentally, Trump tweeted a similar complaint at 3:14 Friday morning.

Back at CNN, Cuomo was holding forth. Playing clips of Carlson, Hannity and Ingraham, whom he collectively called “the Trump trinity,” Cuomo pointed out that Carlson’s Wednesday show didn’t even name CNN as one of the bombing targets, only referring to the network as “news outlet” in text that appeared on the screen.

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“Are we really in this place?” Cuomo asked incredulously. “And to think I was heartened by their reporting yesterday and their conciliatory tone. Fake civility, I guess.”

He continued: “If it were you who had been targeted by a bomber in a thinly veiled attempt to support the left ... God forbid that happens, I hope you and your families are safe."

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Cuomo then accused Fox News of turning “a blind eye to the media that they claim to be apart of when it is attacked.”

“I just don’t get it,” he said. “Did you need the bomb to go off? Would that have mattered?”

During each of their Thursday segments, however, the Fox News hosts didn’t back down. All playing some variation of the same clips that included CNN and MSNBC segments drawing connections between Trump’s language and the attacks, they loudly decried the implication that the president may be to blame.

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“It went on like this all day, with maximum self-righteousness,” Carlson said of the coverage.

Hannity did condemn the attempted attacks, calling the serial mail bomber a “monster,” but then he said, “the sad part of the story is those that want to politicize this.”

On Ingraham’s show, the host started off as expected, slamming “some media organizations” for what she called “despicable finger-pointing.”