[UPDATED THROUGH OCTOBER 4 MORNING SHOWS]
On September 27, ICE revealed that it estimates there are roughly 13,000 non-citizen murderers running loose in the country, but of the three (ABC, CBS, NBC) broadcast networks only NBC found time to mention it on the September 27 Nightly News and on Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press.
It should be noted the mention on Meet the Press (made by Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute) was immediately “fact-checked” by moderator Kristen Welker: “And DHS has said some of those stats actually go back as far as 40 years.”
But at least the stat got airtime on NBC.
It’s been SIX days since the report was released and so far ABC and CBS have remained silent on the shocking number, despite both networks doing stories on Vice President Kamala Harris’s border visit.
Over on CNN, Senator Linsey Graham brought up the 13,000 statistic on Sunday’s edition of State of the Union only to have host Jake Tapper immediately “fact-check” it:
Jake Tapper: “OK. So I saw that statistic. We dove into it, our fact-checker, that statistic is actually over decades. So some of those people you're talking about are people that came into the country during Trump. And second of all, some of them are in prison. A lot of them are in prison for- not ICE prisons, but federal prisons for their- for their crimes.”
The September 30 print edition (September 29 online version here) of the Washington Post covered the 13,000 number on page 2 but only did so to trash Donald Trump in an article headlined: “Trump Skews Data in Ice Letter to Lambaste Immigrants.”
The fact that ABC and CBS still refuse to report on the number shows how far they are willing to go to cover for the Biden-Harris administration.
