Washington Times editor and Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt told host Laura Ingraham during a Thursday evening appearance that left-wing media types and Democrats will increasingly become animated the closer the country comes to the presidential election as they realize former President Donald Trump’s not going to be jailed by then, if at all.

Hurt made his remarks on the issue after Ingraham played clips of two-time presidential loser Hillary Clinton complaining that the effort to put Trump behind bars was not progressing fast enough.

“These people have spun these lies, and I think it’s a misnomer to treat the media like they are intentionally doing all these lies, and they realize at every step that they are still telling lies,” Hurt, who manages the Times’ editorial page, said.

“They tend to actually start believing in them. We are in the late stages of that sort of denialism where it is starting to dawn on them, ‘Oh, wait a minute, you mean we’re not going to be able to put Donald Trump in jail over an 8-year-old hush money, NDAs, whatever?’ It is all just dawning on them so of course they are going to freak out. And, of course, the next six months, it’s going to be more and more of this. It will get more acute, and for you and me, it’s going to be so much fun to watch,” he said.

Earlier this week, Trump spokeswoman and attorney Alina Habba told Fox News that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against the former president is imploding, and Special Counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may be doing worse than he is.

“I was in the courtroom today. I was in the courtroom yesterday. What’s more compelling to me is that the prosecution, whose case frankly, in my opinion, has been destroyed, is completely discredited, and now they are saying as of yesterday that they want another two weeks, and that to me says it all,” she told Sean Hannity.

“His poll numbers are amazing and he’s not even campaigning. So this is what they have to do and then put an unconstitutional gag order so that on the days that he can’t campaign, he can’t speak. He can’t defend himself.

“What I have seen is absolute demise of American judicial system. You said it perfectly in your monologue, Sean. I can’t believe what I’ve seen for the last two days in that courtroom and now you’ve got a judge who will not grant a mistrial when they violated parameters that he gave,” the attorney said.