Conservative commenter Lou Dobbs , who has hosted his eponymic show on the Fox Business Network for more than seven years, suggested the suspicious packages intercepted Wednesday were not real.

Fake News Fake Bombs he wrote in a now-deleted tweet Thursday morning. Who could possibly benefit by so much fakery?

Dobbs momentarily joined a cadre of right-wing pundits and Trump supporters who are suggesting the bomb scare is actually a false flag attack meant to make the president look bad.