Fox News co-host Shannon Bream brought up a report that President Donald Trump’s administration allegedly issued a “formal apology” to the British government for suggesting that it spied on Trump on behalf of former President Barack Obama. Bream’s account of the news story conveniently left out the fact that the administration was directly citing a claim made on Fox News. In a March 16 briefing, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer cited Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano's March 14 claim that Obama “went outside the chain of command” and “used GCHQ,” a British intelligence agency, to spy on Trump. From the March 17 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom:
Fox News Reports On Spicer’s Apology To The UK, Fails To Note That Spicer Was Apologizing For Citing Fox News
WH Press Secretary Sean Spicer Cited Fox's Andrew Napolitano To Suggest British Intelligence Had Wiretapped Trump
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