Fox News just got busted bigtime for smearing an anti-Trump protester with fake voter fraud claims

Fox News incorrectly implied a protester who says he was assaulted at a Donald Trump rally was using his dead grandmother’s name to commit voter fraud.

Austin Crites—whose protest during a Trump rally in Nevada prompted the Secret Service to rush the Republican candidate offstage—contacted the Guardian after learning of a Fox News segment that implied he committed voter fraud by casting a vote for his grandmother who has “been dead since 2002.” Fox News host Brian Kilmeade made the claim during a segment labelled “Reno Trump protestor linked to voter fraud.”

“This morning, yet another reminder [of voter fraud] from the guy who interrupted Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday, who many people thought had a gun,” Kilmeade said. The Fox host insisted Crites, who was holding a ‘Republicans against Trump’ sign, “claimed he was a Republican” but is actually a “huge Hillary supporter.”

“His grandmother has been using [his] address to vote absentee for years,” Kilmeade said. ‘But she’s been dead since 2002.” The only problem? His grandmother, 90-year old Wilda Austin, is “alive and well.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/fox-news-just-got-busted-bigtime-for-smearing-an-anti-trump-protester-with-fake-voter-fraud-claims/