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Trump Tweets Clip Of Him Bodyslamming CNN; Network Says 'Do Your Job'

The Sunday morning tweet led some in the media to question if the president was threatening the network. A White House adviser said, "I think that no one would perceive that as a threat."

Trash-tweeting the news media for the fifteenth time in a week, President Trump spent part of Sunday morning at his Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey maligning CNN.

This time it was a video clip. Posted on Trump's personal Twitter account, it shows As Trump knocks McMahon to the ground with a forearm slam, an apparently photo-shopped CNN logo covers McMahon's face. The takedown is repeated four times in the video, which is accompanied by two hashtags: #FraudNewsCNN and #FNN.

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