Posted on 06/20/2018 11:16:35 AM PDT by Magnatron
ABC News issued an apology Wednesday after a banner during a live report claimed that former Donald Trump aide Paul Manafort had admitted to killing five people.
The network covered President Donald Trump's afternoon meeting live in anticipation of his announcement that he was issuing a directive to end the practice of separating parents and children caught crossing the border illegally.
During the ABC broadcast, the banner briefly displayed the chyron "Manafort pleads guilty to 5 charges of manslaughter." While the former Trump campaign manager is in jail after his bail was revoked, he has not pleaded guilty to any crimes and has not been charged with manslaughter.
In a series of tweets, ABC News apologized for the error and promised to get the bottom of why the graphic appeared.
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The media is despicable.
Fake news
Reminds me of the whole “Craig James Killed Five Hookers” meme.
Wow. Just wow.
They clearly meant Manson, Charles Manson. Come on, easy mistake, anyone could have made it...
Yeah accident my ass..just like calling all members of this Administration Nazi’s and calling for their deaths is just an “Accident” when I look around, I just don’t recognize America anymore..makes me wonder what President Trump really thinks, if this was all worth it
Deliberate, but no sweat, they are back in the Press room this afternoon.
They apologized for getting caught...................
“ABC News apologized for the error”
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There is no way in hell that this was an error.
Whenever I think that they cannot go any lower-—they go lower.
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We need addresses for these reporters!! If you all are not aware WE ARE AT WAR!! We need the address of that asshole who published the ICE addresses and family members!!! I refuse to lie down and do nothing! Our president is being threatened his family his children his granddaughters and grandsons and we do nothing I called this bullshit!
“We apologize to our viewers and to Mr. Manafort. There simply is no excuse for this sort of mistake.”
How can ABC this early in the investigation be absolutely certain the incident was a “mistake.”
Could it have been a purposeful act by employees of ABC?
Mr. Manafort needs to be made whole.
LAWSUIT FILED TODAY!!!
Sure they will. They need to find out who gets a bonus.
Odd how ABC has NEVER made a ‘mistake’ that damaged Democrats... It’s almost like they’re biased little sh*ts...
Yes, hopefully he will SUE ABC for many millions, and win.
when building the banners, they may need a place holder for when news finally breaks, this is obviously one of those banners, but the mentality is to keep it negative...
it could have easily read that Paul Manafort was found not guilty... but that isn’t in the minds of the creators of the banners.
Just another “mix up” that coincidentally always happens to target people other than Democrats or Liberals — always.
Liars. ABC makes it sound like the false story just "got in their system" mysteriously.
Someone in the back room thought it would be funny and never make it to the air. Funny how nobody in the back room ever makes “funny” jokes about despicable acts by lefties.
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