Media fails to contact DHS on 'fact check ' of Trump's statements about stopping terrorist at the border

Newsbusters:
CNN’s Jim Sciutto was one of the many journaliststhis week who attacked President Trump’s comments about border security during his meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Tuesday. Sciutto even did a whole segment “fact-checking” the president on Wednesday’s CNN Newsroom. Unfortunately for him, actual experts from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called out his reporting on Twitter with a brutal comeback.
The former Obama staffer turned CNN host took to Twitter to brag about his “fact-check” of Trump’s claims about DHS stopping terrorists at the border, dismissing it as fear-mongering. “In fact, DHS did not provide evidence of a single terrorist caught on the southern border over the last short period of time as the president claimed; this is not the first time that the president implied that the wall is necessary due to the terror threat,” he sneered in that segment....

But DHS spox Tyler Q. Houlton embarrassed Sciutto by pointing out that CNN never contacted them and that terrorists, among others, are a real threat:



Tyler Q. Houlton
✔@SpoxDHS

We are happy to provide the facts -- but you never reached out. In fact, DHS prevented 3,755 known or suspected terrorists from traveling to or entering the U.S. in FY 17. That's in addition to 17,526 criminals, 1,019 gang members, and 3,028 special interest aliens.

Jim Sciutto
✔@jimsciutto
The president has now twice used the threat of terrorism to justify the wall. Facts supplied by DHS don’t back that up. https://twitter.com/cnnnewsroom/status/1072878195777650689 …

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MSNBC gave a similar false report about terrorist caught at the border.  It could be that these talking heads were relying on poor staffing or they called some deep state operative who did not have the facts.  Whatever caused their false reporting it adds to the disrespect that so-called media "fact checks" now get particularly on the right.

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