Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) slammed news outlets that have raised questions about President Donald Trump’s mental fitness, saying Wednesday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” that the accusations “are absolutely outrageous.”

It’s no secret that Trump and McConnell don’t always get along — the president often rips McConnell for the Senate’s inaction on his legislative agenda, while the Senate leader often criticizes Trump for controversies that arise. But when Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked McConnell about media allegations that Trump is unfit for office, the GOP leader came to the president’s defense.

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“Two different cable networks today, MSNBC and CNN, at different points in the day were raising serious questions … about the mental state of President Trump … saying that he looks like he has early-onset dementia, he’s unstable, he’s destructive, he’s imbalanced at a time where we could very well be facing a war with North Korea,” Ingraham said.

“You’ve had a lot of interactions with the president. Tell us about what you view his intellectual mental capacity,” she continued.

“Those accusations are absolutely outrageous,” McConnell replied. “I mean, I can speak to the president on a virtually daily basis, and I’m involved with him all the time on all these issues. And that kind of accusation is totally baseless and outrageous.”

Liberal-leaning outlets once again questioned Trump’s mental stability after a series of controversial tweets Wednesday in which the president retweeted far-right videos and blasted MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” host, Joe Scarborough.

Ingraham, LifeZette’s co-founder, said that throwing around accusations that someone may have dementia is “personal” to her because her father suffered from dementia for several years.

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“And yet these charges are being thrown around, a lot of people believe as a precursor to perhaps the Democrat takeover in 2018, and then ultimately a push to try to remove [Trump] from office,” Ingraham said.

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The Senate majority leader dismissed the mainstream media outlets’ allegations as “irresponsible” and unhelpful with serious issues and obstacles facing the country.

“Look, I think those kind of accusations are completely off-base and irresponsible,” McConnell said. “Let’s argue over the issues. We have different points of view.”

“For example, the decision to get on the tax bill was totally partisan. Every Democrat said, ‘I don’t want to do tax reform.’ Every Republican said, ‘I do.’ That’s the appropriate area for us to have our discussions in public about the future of the country,” McConnell added.

On “The Laura Ingraham Show” on radio on Thursday morning, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee agreed with McConnell.

“I think that Donald Trump’s critics are not so much afraid that he will fail. I think they’re afraid he will succeed,” he said. “And if he succeeds, he not only disrupts the Washington insider game that needs to be disrupted, but it also proves how wrong they were.”

Huckabee said that his daughter, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, walks into the Oval Office “repeatedly” every day.

“I think that if he were just truly just completely unhinged, she would have called me and said, ‘Dad, I gotta get out of here.’ But that’s not what it’s like there at all,'” he said.

“I’ve known Joe Scarborough a long time. I’m real disappointed in him,” Huckabee told Ingraham, saying he thinks Scarborough and others got their feelings hurt during the 2016 presidential campaign and “just didn’t get over it.”