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Posted: 2020-07-21T05:20:44Z | Updated: 2020-07-21T05:20:44Z Fox News Host Brian Kilmeade Ripped For Literal Fake News About Ocasio-Cortez | HuffPost
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Fox News Host Brian Kilmeade Ripped For Literal Fake News About Ocasio-Cortez

The "Fox & Friends" co-host later deleted the long-debunked tweet and apologised... but got her name wrong in the process.

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Monday shared a phony quote attributed to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , then suggested it backs what President Donald Trump has been saying about Democrats .

Kilmeade a co-host of “Fox & Friends,” reputedly one of Trump’s favorite shows tweeted: 

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The tweet was debunked last month by Snopes , rated “pants on fire” by PolitiFact , shot down by FactCheck and disproved by The Associated Press , among others.

The New York Democrat fired back : “As a Fox News host are you going to take responsibility for spreading fabricated information about a sitting member of Congress or...?” 

Kilmeade deleted the tweet about an hour later, then after another hour issued an apology in quotes: 

Ocasio-Cortez replied: 

Kilmeade’s critics on Twitter called him out over it: 

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