CNN anchor and Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins torpedoed a rant in which President Donald Trump claimed that overwhelmingly negative television coverage is now “illegal” and “no longer free speech.”

Trump spoke for an hour during a photo op in the Oval Office Friday, during which he claimed “I’m a very strong person for free speech.”

He then added “But 97, 94, 95, 96% of the people are against me in the sense of the newscasts are against me. The stories are– they said 97% bad. So, they gave me 97, they’ll take a great story, and they’ll make it bad. See, I think that’s really illegal, personally.”

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Trump later said such coverage is “no longer free speech. That’s no longer anythin

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