When it comes to the news, forget even basic fact-checking. The Fake News media will publish anything so long as it denigrates President Trump. This time it’s come back to bite them, spectacularly. Breitbart reports.
A report by the United Nations (UN) falsely blamed President Trump for the detention of 100,000 migrant children who, in fact, were held in federal immigration custody in 2015 by President Obama.
On Monday, a UN report circulated around establishment media outlets like Reuters, AFP, and NPR reported a false story that claimed Trump was currently holding about 100,000 migrant children in custody.
[…]NPR ran with the UN report as well, writing that the Trump administration “is still holding more than 100,000 children in migration-related detention.”
The author of the UN report, though, now admits that the migrant child detention figures are from 2015, when Obama was president.
“The author of the report has clarified that his figures do not represent the number of children currently in migration-related US detention, but the total number of children in migration-related US detention in 2015,” the AFP wrote on Twitter, noting that they would delete their false story.
Ha! Sprung!
After realizing that the UN report falsely blamed Trump for Obama’s migrant child detention rate, Reuters deleted their story, writing in a post:
A Nov. 18 story headlined ‘U.S. has world’s highest rate of children in detention -U.N. study’ is withdrawn. The United Nations issued a statement on Nov. 19 saying the number was not current but was for the year 2015. No replacement story will be issued. [Emphasis added]
That’s Reuters trying to cover themselves. Note how they still can’t bring themselves to say that it was under Obama that there were more than 100,000 kids in detention.
But what’s even funnier is that it was presented as “breaking news.” The Fake News media couldn’t have done a more spectacular own goal if they tried.