The following podcast contains explicit language.

A few days ago, I called the fake news the enemy of the people and they are.

Apparently this is how they're retaliating when you report facts they don't like.

This White House does not seem to value an independent press.

There is a word for that line of thinking.

The word is un-American.

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

This show about Donald Trump, the president who may end up urging everyone to get immunity.

I'm Jim Elboui, Slates Chief Political Correspondent in your host for today's show.

Despite holding the White House in both chambers of Congress,

the Republican Party may be on the verge of a civil war.

The immediate blame goes to the collapse of the American Health Care Act,

the GOP's attempted replacement for the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare.

Unwieldy and poorly drafted, the AHCA, couldn't get off the ground,

killed by a combination of interest groups, democratic opponents, and hesitant Republican lawmakers.

It's that last group that drove much of the action, and as such, it's that last group that has come under fire from President Trump.

The weekend after the bill failed, Trump tweeted that Democrats are smiling in DC that the Freedom Caucus,

with the help of Club for Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood and O-Care.

This past Thursday, he doubled down the message, warning that the Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda

if they don't get on the team and fast, adding, we must fight them and Dems in 2018.

It is a major step to threaten the primary challenge against fellow partisans.

They kind of move that could turn the Freedom Caucus into outright opponents,

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