President Donald Trump offered a scathing rebuke of CNN’s Don Lemon over what he viewed as a clearly biased question on alleged “bigotry” during the Democratic debate on Tuesday night.

Lemon, who just 24 hours earlier had labeled Trump the “race-baiter-in-chief,” dropped the facade of impartiality and flat-out described the president as a racist when asking a question.

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“What do you say to those Trump voters who prioritize the economy over the president’s bigotry?” he asked Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).

How CNN can try to describe this person as an actual journalist is a mystery.

The fact that the Democrats were OK with his serving as a moderator speaks volumes about the kinds of questions they were hoping to get during these debates.

President Trump fired away on social media.

He hammered Lemon as the “dumbest man on television” and mocked CNN for its low ratings, in part due to its biased anchors.

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Earlier this year, Lemon complained that the president’s mean words “take a toll on me, on my privacy and safety and security, and the safety and security of my family.”

He openly wondered about continuing on in a media career. Let’s hope he wonders a little more about it now that the president is calling him out yet again.

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Evidence? Presenting non-existent bigotry as if it were fact would tick off anybody, really — but why did nobody at CNN tell Lemon that question would be out of line if the network wanted to be taken seriously during these debates?

Fox News’ Howard Kurtz slammed Lemon while also praising his debate moderator colleagues, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.

“The liberal opinion host on the panel asked questions that were blatantly from the Left, promoting gun control and referring to President Trump as a racially divisive bigot,” fumed Kurtz..

Gotta love how the president added a synonym for dumb to his tweet, just in case Lemon didn’t get the point.

However, this isn’t the first time Trump has used those exact words — “dumbest man on television” — to describe CNN’s pride and joy. There’s plenty of material to sort through that will back up Trump’s claims.

There’s the time Lemon claimed “white men” were the biggest terror threat in America. There’s the time Lemon launched his own verbal bigoted attacks on Trump supporter Kanye West. There’s the time he blamed a shooting threat on the president. And the time Lemon insisted that anyone who works in the White House is “complicit” in Trump’s “racism.”

And then there’s the moment, quite recently, in which Lemon compared Trump to Hitler, a bridge even Andrew Cuomo’s little brother wasn’t willing to cross.

“Don Lemon is a lightweight — dumb as a rock,” the president wrote in 2016. Not much has changed, in our view.

This piece originally appeared in The Political Insider and is used by permission.

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