YOU TOO CAN LEARN TO PRETEND THAT DONALD IS WINNING AND OBAMA'S IN TROUBLE!:

THE NATION IS in serious danger. The creeping spread of Islam is pushing out Christianity. The country's borders are swarming with drug-slinging criminals, and its veterans are dying in droves. Heartless, power-hungry liberals snatch guns away from poor, defenseless citizens while openly mocking Gold Star widows. Meanwhile, Democratic operatives are planning a coup from a bunker not far from the White House and wiretapping Trump administration officials, not to mention Trump Tower itself--a looming scandal of Watergate proportions.

The worst part? The propagandistic left-wing media (that subhuman species) won't report a word of it.

At least, that's what I learned spending a few weeks on a self-imposed binge of President Trump's media diet--a virtual smorgasbord of Breitbart, Fox News, front-page newspaper headlines, presidential Twitter, and a smattering of Infowars for flavor. 

"No, that's above my pay grade," said Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary and a feisty Trump loyalist, when asked on Tuesday at an on-camera briefing if he had seen any evidence to back up Mr. Trump's accusation. The reporters kept at him, but Mr. Spicer pointedly and repeatedly refused to offer personal assurances that the president's statements were true.

"No comment," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said earlier in the day. Last week, Mr. Sessions recused himself from any investigations involving the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia.

"I don't know anything about it," John F. Kelly, the homeland security secretary, said on CNN on Monday. Mr. Kelly shrugged and added that "if the president of the United States said that, he's got his reasons to say it."

Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of California and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and Senator Richard M. Burr, Republican of North Carolina and the chairman of the Senate intelligence panel, have said they will add Mr. Trump's request to pre-existing inquiries into intelligence community leaks.

But Mr. Nunes and Mr. Burr said they had not seen specific evidence backing up Mr. Trump's claim.

Other Hill Republicans have responded with similar verbal shrugs. Senator John Cornyn of Texas, a member of the Intelligence Committee, said on Tuesday that he "didn't know what the basis" of Mr. Trump's statement was.

Mr. Trump's Twitter posts, viewed with amazement outside the West Wing bubble, often create crises on the inside.

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