CNN host Jake Tapper slammed Donald Trump after he "inserted himself" into a military ruling on a Green Beret charged with killing a man linked to the Taliban in Afghanistan -- and used the exact words from a Fox & Friends segment he heard on it just moments before.
The New York Times reported Sunday that Trump "made another extraordinary intervention into the American judicial system" when he tweeted that he "will be reviewing the case of a ‘U.S. Military hero,’ Major Matt Golsteyn, who is charged with murder."
“He could face the death penalty from our own government after he admitted to killing a Terrorist bomb maker while overseas," the president wrote Sunday morning.
The Times and many others noted that Trump used "verbatim, language aired just minutes before by his favorite program, 'Fox & Friends.'"
"Here is an instance of President Trump seeing a report on Fox News, not finding out more about it, just going by what he saw, picked up, and then changing policy or trying to change policy or inserting himself in policy," Tapper said Monday afternoon.
"I've heard some people say we shouldn't really worry about state-run media -- it's the media-run state that's the concern here," the host added.
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