President Trump Got It Wrong About the New York Times “Foiling” Killing of ISIS Leader

It is worrisome to me, as it should be to all Americans, how much “intelligence” and facts President Trump seems to get from Fox News. As a result, when they get it wrong, he gets it wrong, but not before he tweets out his error to his followers and the news media. Rather than rely on perhaps one of the best intelligence services on the planet (ours), Mr. Trump relies on Fox News to tell him what is going on in the world. As a case in point, Mr. Trump tweeted the following 25 minutes after seeing a story on Fox News:

The problem is that the Fox News story is a Fake News story which was only updated with an addendum (no correction) on their web site after the New York Times called out Fox News after their journalistic failure.