As President Trump battled with several reporters during Monday’s press conference on COVID-19, one of the exchanges that set the media into a frenzy was when Trump questioned if a reporter from a Hong Kong based media outlet worked for China. Turns out, she did. That didn’t stop reporters like CNN’s John Harwood from becoming enraged at how “authoritarian” Trump had “lashed out” at this reporter’s “legitimate criticism.”

On New Day Tuesday during the 7am EST hour, the CNN White House Correspondent complained that Trump had “went after” this reporter by questioning her “legitimate criticism” of the administration.

Harwood, like others yesterday, took this reporter’s claim that she worked for a private media company as truth, without digging further to find that she was lying.

Laughably, Harwood claimed that by rejecting communist propaganda, Trump was behaving like an “authoritarian” who didn’t like to be questioned. Finally, the CNN correspondent demanded Trump ‘take responsibility” for the pandemic. Of course, he didn’t demand the same of Democrat leaders who downplayed the virus from the beginning, obsessed with impeaching President Trump instead: