LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham said the media-driven story speculating that President Donald Trump is considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller is “fake news” and “patently unfair and untrue.” She spoke during an interview Tuesday on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”

The president was slapped by a bevy of stories Monday evening after friend and Newsmax founder Christopher Ruddy told PBS News Hour Monday that he thinks Trump is “considering perhaps terminating” Mueller. Ruddy said he gathered this tenuous theory from comments a lawyer for Trump made on Sunday shows.

The Ruddy interview, however, threw the mainstream media and the Left into a tizzy as they speculated what the consequences could be for Trump if he fired Mueller.

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“This is fake news,” Ingraham said. “This is an example of the establishment media being agenda-driven to drive the president out of office and being lazy. And being stupid. So that’s an evil triple of a threat against objectivity in the media.”

Following Ruddy’s remarks, White House press secretary Sean Spicer fired back in a statement saying that Ruddy “never spoke to the president regarding this issue. With respect to this subject, only the president or his attorneys are authorized to comment.”

In a statement to Fox News, Ruddy said, “While I am not claiming the president said it to me, I am confident of my sourcing. He is definitely considering it as an option.”

Despite the pushback from the White House, the media kept pushing the story.

“Even if he said that, isn’t it incumbent on the American media to kind of chase it down and to verify whether that’s true? No, they didn’t do that because they want to drive the president out of office,” Ingraham said.

“There is a concerted effort on the part of some Never-Trumpers in the Republican Caucus on Capitol Hill — and we know who they are — the media and the Left to drive the president out of office,” Ingraham continued. “It’s incumbent on objective people in the media and smart analysts and the White House itself to keep their eye on the prize.”

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Noting that “the American people are smart,” Ingraham said they notice “unfairness when it exists.”

“This is patently unfair and untrue. This is fake news and shame on all the other cable networks, New York Times, Washington Post for going with this,” Ingraham said. “This is fake, and false and defamatory, and it’s outrageous.”

Trump chimed in Tuesday about the “fake news” swirling throughout the media and the internet, tweeting,”The Fake News Media has never been so wrong or so dirty. Purposely incorrect stories and phony sources to meet their agenda of hate. Sad!”

“A.G. Lynch made law enforcement decisions for political purposes…gave Hillary Clinton a free pass and protection. Totally illegal!” Trump added. “Fake News is at an all time high. Where is their apology to me for all of the incorrect stories???”

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Ingraham also blasted the hypocrisy of the Left and the media in largely ignoring the portion of fired FBI Director James Comey’s Thursday testimony in which he said that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch asked him to refer to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s email server probe as a “matter,” not an “investigation.”

While the media automatically infer obstruction of justice when the question revolves around Trump and the Russia investigation, Ingraham said they are reluctant to “infer intent to obstruct an investigation” when it concerns Lynch and Clinton.

“Could we infer that she’s trying to impede an ongoing federal investigation? They’re inferring it about Trump. Why not infer it about Loretta Lynch?” Ingraham said. “I think we know the answer to that.”

“Why didn’t Comey take this to the president? And if he did, what did President Obama do about that?” Ingraham added.

Noting that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to testify Tuesday regarding his interactions with Russian officials, Ingraham lamented that the hearing will overshadow Trump’s Tuesday trip to Wisconsin to discuss his economic agenda.

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“They’re going to Wisconsin and they’re talking about the economy. How do we get people to transition into the workforce? That’s changing in the United States. Those are things that actually a lot of liberals have been asking for — apprenticeships and developing new talents, whether it’s tech or STEM for young women, workplace accommodations,” Ingraham said.

“But here’s the rub: Jeff Sessions decides to, you know, he’s going to testify. Congress schedules it, and that’s all people are going to be watching,” Ingraham added. “So again, the administration kind of steps on its own narrative, you know, by continuing this conversation about the Russia probe that now seems to be a probe into something else.”

Saying that “we need more positive things from the administration,” Ingraham said it’s “going to take some time for the administration to start, I think, righting this ship into the direction of economic renewal, growth and really putting the spotlight back on the Never-Trumpers, both in the Republican Party, many of them who do not want him to be successful, and of course on the far left who want to resist anything he does and ultimately want to remove him from office.”

“So the more [Trump] is the champion of the forgotten man — the theme he struck so brilliantly during the campaign — the more that he looks like the beacon and they look like the storm,” Ingraham added. “You want the beacon to be shining really brightly in the middle of the storm. He needs to be the beacon. We don’t want him to be the storm.”