CNN’s Abby Phillip fact-checked several Fox hosts who repeated Donald Trump’s false claim that the judge in his New York criminal trial ruled the former president may not attend his son’s high school graduation.
Jury selection in Trump’s trial began on Monday. He has pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments.
“It looks like the judge will not let me go to the graduation of my son,” Trump after court adjourned for the day. However, Judge Juan Merchan has yet to rule on that matter, stating that it is too early to decide. The ex-president later repeated the claim on Truth Social.
“Almost as those words escaped the former president’s lips, they went straight to the Fox airwaves,” Phillip said on Tuesday’s CNN NewsNight, before airing a montage of Fox hosts repeating what she called the “Trump lie”:
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