Fox News accuses Trump protester of using dead grandmother for voter fraud—except she's alive
By Mark Sumner Tuesday Nov 08, 2016

Austyn Crites, a Republican who isn’t voting for Trump, is America’s newest supervillain. First, there was his blatant attempted assassination of Donald Trump …

The myth of Trump’s courageous fight against a very dangerous man was already being tweeted before Crites had even left the auditorium. And now Crites is back—this time to rig the election.

Austyn Crites, a Republican protester who was assaulted at a Trump rally in Nevada, was stunned to see a TV report associating him with fraudulent voting connected to a grandmother Fox News claimed died in 2002.

If his grandmother was tuned in, she was probably even more shocked … because she’s not dead. ........

It’s Fox News. They don’t do corrections. In fact, they’re still using her deadness (lie down, ma’am) as proof that Democrats are out to steal Election Day. .....

“He claimed he was a Republican, but it turns out he’s a huge Hillary supporter, and his grandmother has been using [his] address to vote absentee for years. But she’s been dead since 2002.”

.... The odds that Fox News will admit that they’ve invented this story just to bolster a shared talking point with Trump?

The Fox News host then turned to J Christian Adams, a former Department of Justice attorney and pundit for the network. “This is going on all over the country,” Adams said. “It’s a federal felony.”
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