Donald Trump hates the press and the press hates Donald Trump. Surprise, surprise! Most of the media hate Republicans anyway, of course, especially Republican presidents. Had any other Republican been elected, the press would be going after him with the same determination (if not quite the same slobbering enthusiasm) that it directs at Trump.

The clearest example of Trump Derangement Syndrome is Russia. The only other time in our history that Democrats have cared about Russia was when Reagan was president, and they were insisting that we had to accommodate the Soviets and not be too aggressive. Liberals, both in and out of the media, liked and admired Gorbachev much more than Reagan. They still do. Birds of a feather.

And, let's not forget that Obama made fun of Mitt Romney during one of the 2012 presidential debates for noting that Russia is a threat.

But suddenly Democrats are consumed with the idea of Russia even though it has become quite clear that the American people have seen through the nonsense and are tired of it. Trump isn't helping, to be sure, but investigations at various levels have been going on now for nearly a year, and still, there is nothing to show collusion by the Trump folks. Clumsiness, perhaps stupidity, and even a surprising naiveté, but nothing criminal as even the very liberal Alan Dershowitz has admitted: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/11/dershowitz-did-donald-trump-jr-commit-crime-or-merely-political-sin-it-depends.html

And there are so many other examples, mostly silly little things but they do demonstrate just how absurd the media has gotten in its attacks on the president.

The Trump-CNN wrestling meme which Trump re-tweeted got him accused of "inciting violence." The goofy flap over "covfefe," a typo which the Democratic media operatives touted as evidence of Trump's unfitness for office. It's a good thing Trump didn't talk about campaigning in all 57 states or claim that Austrians speak Austrian, isn't it?

Here's one more silly little thing. The media got all exercised because Trump modified the coat-of-arms that was on Mar-a-Lago when he bought the place and now calls it his own. Oh, the humanity!

Next, we'll hear that Trump once farted loudly in church.

But then, in an age when "reality" TV shows are so popular, is it really a surprise that fake news gets such traction?

And, per a recent CBS report, there's the FBI investigation of Jane (Mrs. Bernie) Sanders and her possible financial mismanagement of Burlington College. Bernie was on NBC's "Meet the Press" not long ago and was not asked a single question about it. None. Not one. Can anyone imagine the media not thoroughly, and viciously, grilling Donald Trump had he been the subject of that investigation?

And some folks (we'll call them "liberals") wonder why the rest of us see a hard-core, far left media bias at work here and so are skeptical of the unending attacks on Trump. This is not the usual and predictable journalistic liberal bias. Everyone is used to that. Even liberals have admitted it on occasion as with the LA Times studies in the 1980's. No, this isn't business as usual in that regard but something darker and indicative of a sea change in the very meaning and purpose of modern American journalism.

From the journalism professor in Missouri last year who called for "muscle" to help her get rid of a conservative student journalist covering a pro-BLM demonstration to the media's current obsession with all things Trump, what we're seeing is nothing less than a full-on assault on freedom of speech.

The NY Post's Michael Goodwin best described it as "the gobsmacking revelation that most of the mainstream media put both thumbs on the scale – that most of what you read, watch, and listen to is distorted by intentional bias and hostility."

Trump is right. The media is engaged in a witch hunt. He's just part of it. It is despicable … and frightening.