Trump hates kids!! No wait, Obama hated them more. So NEVERMIND! Huge news broke last week courtesy of a U.N. report that got instant attention because it made President Trump look bad.
According to the report, there are “more than 100,000 children in migration-related detention in the United States of America.â€
Reuters, AP, NBC and other outlets raced to cover the crisis.
HuffPost senior politics reporter Jennifer Bendery was one of many to criticize the U.S. “Congratulations America,†she tweeted. “We now have the world's highest rate of children in detention, per a United Nations study.â€
Only one small problem. The data from the report didn’t come from 2019. It came from 2015 when Barack Obama held the White House and 100,000 children were detained.
News outlets ran away from the story like it was radioactive. Agence France-Presse said it was “withdrawing this story.†Bendery pulled her tweet. Several outlets simply deleted their articles.
A front-page story went away in a flash … simply because it no longer fit the anti-Trump narrative required of most big news stories. The misreporting led to
some embarrassing moments as politicians used the story to attack Trump only to find they were attacking Obama.
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