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On Monday morning, Fox & Friends news anchor and former CSN Philly host Jillian Mele reported on a new “bombshell” originating from The Hill news site that former FBI Director James Comey’s personal memos detailing meetings with President Donald Trump contained “top secret information.”
Trump, who regularly watches Fox & Friends (sometimes four hours after it airs), saw the report and quickly re-tweeted it to his nearly 34 million followers. He commented on the report in a subsequent tweet, accusing Comey of breaking the law.
There’s just one problem — the report wasn’t true.
The Hill’s John Solomon reported that “more than half” of Comey’s memos contained classified information, but at no point does the report claim that the any of the specific memos he leaked through a friend to the New York Times were classified.
The Hill’s report also stated some of the memos “contained information classified at the ‘secret’ or ‘confidential’ level,” but did not state the information was “top secret,” as Mele reported.
On Tuesday morning, 24 hours after the incorrect report fueled a days worth of incorrect discussion about Comey’s memos, Fox & Frends co-host Steve Doocy issued an on-air statement that the show was “mistaken.”
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/p...rt-that-fueled-trump-accusation-20170711.html
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