Former CNN anchor Piers Morgan slammed the New York Times and other media outlets during a Fox News interview on Monday night regarding their coverage of President Trump during the presidential campaign.
Host Tucker Carlson asked Morgan if he was shocked by the collusion between the Democratic Party and CNN that was exposed by WikiLeaks emails from the Democratic National Committee.
"I think that a lot of people in the mainstream media, for want of a better phrase, are absolutely determined to bring [Trump] down. I think he's got a point. I think some of them absolutely are, " Morgan said. "They were in the tank for Hillary Clinton, their candidate didn't win, and now they are utterly determined to bring the Trump presidency crashing down."
"So you have a war between the media and the White House, the like of which I have certainly never seen before. It's pretty dangerous all around," he continued.
When pressed by Carlson about CNN coordinating with a DNC research director on questions for then-presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), Morgan said he wanted to be fair to CNN and believes that most of the anchors have integrity.
Morgan pointed out that CNN and many other news networks built Trump up during the first four or five months of the campaign and then tried to destroy his White House bid when it looked like he might win the Republican nomination.
"Papers like the New York Times, frankly, I thought were a complete disgrace. They weren't even pretending to be anything but in the tank for Hillary Clinton," Morgan said. "I found that, as a journalist, pretty obscene to watch actually."
"For the New York Times and others now to be saying, 'Oh poor us, we are the innocent parties here, Donald Trump is annihilating the media and breaking down the first amendment' and so on,'" he continued. "It's pretty rich, giving the way that they conducted themselves is this, a posted paper of record."
Morgan then recalled a time during the campaign when he opened the New York Times and all the stories were hostile to Trump.
"I remember the middle of the campaign, picking up the New York Times and reading it from cover to cover. There were 11 different stories and letters and comment op-ed pieces about Donald Trump in that one edition of the New York Times," he said. "Every single one of them was hostile to Trump, including four out of four letters. Now come on. That is not a coincidence."
Morgan also went after Democrats who complained about Trump being elected president but praised the country's democratic system.
"I am appalled by the behavior of so many liberals right now. I think it is so alien to the concept of being a liberal," he said. "They bang on about democracy. They bang on about tolerance, about fairness, and yet they are behaving in exactly the same way that they warned us all that Donald Trump and his supporters would behave if and when, as they assumed, they lost. I just don't think you can do that."
"My message to the left is, if you want to try and beat Donald Trump, then do it democratically and stop trying to delegitimize him, stop trying to make every tweet, every statement, every comment he says, the armageddon of the world, and just try and apply some rational political common sense to defeating your opponent," Morgan added.