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Yes this is how bad it can get when the POTUS only listens to Fox News instead of, oh, any of his advisors etc...
Fox ran with a BS story that was very thinly based on an Iranian news agency which relied on an Iranian newspaper who relied on one Iranian clerics word.
Of course that's enough for cheeto jesus to get on the twitter. No clarifying. No reaching out to his own advisors. Just hop on the conspiracy bandwagon and run with it to the faithful.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/07/03/media/fox-news-trump-obama-iran-deal/index.html
Fox ran with a BS story that was very thinly based on an Iranian news agency which relied on an Iranian newspaper who relied on one Iranian clerics word.
Of course that's enough for cheeto jesus to get on the twitter. No clarifying. No reaching out to his own advisors. Just hop on the conspiracy bandwagon and run with it to the faithful.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/07/03/media/fox-news-trump-obama-iran-deal/index.html
The unsubstantiated claim first gained attention with a Monday story on Fox News' website that relied on the word of an Iranian cleric who is also a member of the country's parliament.
The article, written by Chris Irvine, a Fox News senior editor, cited an Iranian news agency that cited an Iranian newspaper that quoted the single Iranian cleric, who said the Obama administration provided citizenship to 2,500 unidentified Iranians during nuclear deal negotiations.
The article itself quoted, toward the end of the story, the network's own commentator, former Obama State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, saying, "This sounds like totally made up BS." The story said the Department of Homeland Security and State Department declined to comment, and that a representative for former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson could not be reached.