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While Donald Trump has recently bashed CNN on Twitter , a new poll has found that more Americans actually trust the network more than the President.

Overall, 50% of adults said they trust CNN more than Trump , compared to 43% of adults who said they trust the President more than CNN, according to a poll from Survey Monkey.

Whether people trust CNN or Trump more varied largely along party lines.

Of Republicans, 89% said they trusted Trump more, and 9% said they trusted CNN more.

Among Democrats, only 5% said they trust Trump more compared to the 91% who said they trusted CNN more.

Independents were split with 40% saying they trust Trump more and 55% saying they trust CNN more.

The survey found that adults also trusted the New York Times, Washington Post and network news programs like NBC, CBS and ABC more than the President.

The online poll surveyed 4,965 adults from June 29 to July 3, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 points.

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Hundreds of entries into an Iranian cartoon competition mocking Donald Trump have attacked thepresident as a racist, a warmonger and a Nazi.

The winner of the so-called Trumpism competition, Iranian cartoonist Hadi Asadi, depicted the president wearing a suit made of dollar bills, scornfully drooling over a pile of books. Behind him, a shock of burning yellow hair issues smoke that forms a map of the world.

In a competition heldby a group that has previously organized similar contests on themes including the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) and the Holocaust, the International Trumpism Cartoon and Caricature Contest pulled no punches.

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The T in Trump to promote the event was a swastika, encouraging many of the entries to compare the president to Adolf Hitler. One entry showed Trump giving a Nazi salute while another showed the president drawing a Hitler moustache on the statue of liberty.

The ism in Trumpism is a reference to racism and Nazism, Masuod Shojai Tabatabaei, the organizer told the Associated Press. Many believe his remarks are similar to Hitler. He has had a bad attitude toward media [and] refugees.

Trumps behavior clearly sets out Irans reasons to distrust the U.S., consequently, we decided to use arts capacity for displaying the behavior, Tabatabaei told Iranian local media.

Aside from his personal characteristics, Trump has also posed different challenges to the world and treats Iran and the Islamic world unconventionally in particular, he added.

Iranian cartoonist Hadi Asadi poses for a picture with a trophy and an award next to cartoons of President Donald Trump, at an exhibition of the Islamic Republic's 2017 International Trumpism cartoon and caricature contest, in the capital Tehran on July 3, 2017. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE

Asadi, whose cartoon was chosen from among 1,600 entries from 75 countries, won $1,500 in prize money, Monday. I wanted to show Trump while trampling symbols of culture, Asadi, who spent two weeks working on the cartoon, said. He added that the focus of his piece was on Trumps money-mindedness and war monger nature.

Two U.S. contestants were awarded for their entries. Robert Jones Clayton, again, compared Trump to Hitler while another cartoon by Ed Wexler showed the president being pursued by a snowball with a red hammer and sickle emblem on ita reference to an ongoing investigation into Trump staff and their connections to the Kremlin.

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A former GOP congressman who voted to impeach then-President Bill Clinton in 1998 has hit out at what he labeled theDonald Trumpshow.

On Monday, former Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) told CNN International host Christiane Amanpourthat the current presidents situation involving the investigations into his associates alleged ties to Russia ismuch more serious than the scandal that ended up engulfing Clintons administration.

Inglis made his comments after Amanpour played out an interview from 1998 in which he explained just why Clinton should be impeached.

There are issues around the world that require American leadership, Inglis said in the archive clip. The leader of the free world needs moral authority. And weve got a president who is sorely lacking in that regard.

Amanpour asked Inglis how he measured Clintons lack of moral authority in the run up to his impeachment with what Trump currently has or doesnt have.

Well, I guess that young guy you were just playing there apparently hadnt seen something called the Donald Trump show, said Inglis of his younger self, before adding that Trumps behavior is much more serious than anything we ever accused Bill Clinton of.

Inglis noted how Clintons impeachment involved perjury with the underlying matter being a sexual affair. Trumps situation, however, was something quite different.

Particularly when it gets into the Russia investigation and the firing of (former FBI Director) James Comey, he added. These are very serious matters.

Check out the full interview in the clip above.

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WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. would be delighted to help a terminally ill 10-month-old from the United Kingdom if we can.

His tweet was in reference to Charlie Gard, a baby who is set to be taken off life support after a battle in the courts between the hospital, which said there was nothing to be done to save him, and his parents, who want to take him to the U.S. for an experimental treatment. Gard has a rare genetic condition that has left him unable to breathe or move his arms or legs on his own, according to a United Kingdom Supreme Court decision in June.

White House spokeswoman Helen Aguirre Ferr said Trump offered to help after hearing about the situation.

Although the President himself has not spoken to the family, he does not want to pressure them in any way, members of the administration have spoken to the family in calls facilitated by the British government, she said in a statement Monday afternoon. The President is just trying to be helpful if at all possible.

Last Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights upheld previous court rulings to allow the hospital to discontinue life support, citing United Kingdom domestic courts conclusion that it was likely that Charlie would suffer significant harm if his present suffering was prolonged without any realistic prospect of improvement, and the experimental therapy would be of no effective benefit.

Gards parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, posted on Facebook afterward that they were utterly heartbroken and that they and Charlie had been massively let down throughout this whole process.

Pope Francis weighed in on the case on Sunday, siding with Gards parents. The Vatican issued a statement that the pope prays that their wish to accompany and treat their child until the end isnt neglected.

Gards parents are still fighting to take their son home from the hospital to die. They said last week that doctors had planned to take Gard off life support on Friday but it had been postponed.

Together with Charlies parents we are putting plans in place for his care, and to give them more time together as a family, a spokesman for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust told The Washington Post. We would ask you to give the family and our staff some space and privacy at this distressing time.

This article has been updated with a statement from a White House spokeswoman.

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The video of President Donald Trump wrestling a man with a CNN logo superimposed on his head -- tweeted out by Trump over the weekend -- did not come from the website Reddit, the White House said on Monday.

The video was not pulled from Reddit, a White House official told ABC News. The official decline to respond to further requests seeking an explanation for where the president obtained the clip.

the edited Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) video on Sunday morning, which has him pummelling a person with a CNN logo superimposed over his head. That moment was originally from a 2007 WWE match in which Trump appeared at the performance and body slammed WWE Chairman Vince McMahon.

While the White House denies that Trump sourced the video from Reddit, a user on the site whose handle is a Star Wars characters name interjected with an expletive -- Han-------Solo -- has repeatedly claimed credit for it.

The GIF posted on Reddit is not exactly the same as what Trump tweeted -- the video on Trump's Twitter account includes sound, and a "Fake News Network" logo at the end of the video.

The Reddit user posted on the discussion website that the video is recognizable by the way the GIF matches the movements and the original logo, but also knows someone else added sound to it. The user said on the site that he posted the original video on a popular subreddit dubbed The_Donald, where Trump supporters converge, on June 28.

Brian Stelter, the host of CNNs Reliable Sources, tweeted out CNNs official response to Trumps tweet on Sunday, saying we will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his. The response also critiqued Trump for involving himself in juvenile behavior beneath the dignity of his office rather than focusing on his overseas trips, North Korea and the health care bill.

CNNs communications team hit back on Trumps Twitter thread directly, responding to the video with a quote from Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, where she defend the presidents criticisms of Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski from last week.

"The president in no way, form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary, the team tweeted out, adding that the quote was from Sanders on June 29.

Members of Congress were quick to slam Trump for his tweet on Sunday, while stressing the importance of press freedom.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-CA, tweeted out, The First Amendment & freedom of the press are critical to our democracy. The latest attack from the WH undermines our values.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called the press the guardians of our democracy and added that Violence & violent imagery to bully the press must be rejected.

Sen. Ben Sasse, R-N.E., appeared on CNN on Sunday, warning that there is an important distinction between bad stories and crappy coverage and trying to weaponize distrust.

Meanwhile, some Republican members of Congress and White House officials focused on attacking the press.

John Shimkus, R-Illinois, tweeted that headlines will always favor scandal over substance and conflict over compromise, and added that plenty of bipartisan work was being done. House Speaker Paul Ryan retweeted Shimkus tweet on Monday.

Presidential Counselor Kellyanne Conway, who said the president had the right to fight back amid last weeks Morning Joe controversy, remained quiet about the CNN video, but tweeted on Monday, Yet, lately role of the media has been to retract false stories & fire liars. "Truth" = patriotic vets died so you can talk nonsense.

Trump has for years had a hostile relationship with CNN, often calling the network fake news with phony stories and garbage journalism.

The president also tweeted out that he was thinking of changing Fake News CNN to Fraud News CNN on July 1.

ABC News Alexander Mallin and Arlette Saenz contributed to this report.

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