On Friday morning, as CNN's New Day show tried to prove that President Donald Trump was spreading misinformation about an illegal immigrant who murdered two police officers, CNN host Alisyn Camerota and CNN analyst John Avlon contradicted each other in the same show regarding who was President when he first entered the country as the two also ignored the possibility that liberal policies in places like California and Salt Lake City might have helped him avoid capture and deportation for many years in spite of many arrests.
At 7:05 a.m. Eastern, Camerota first took a stab at undermining Trump's video as she turned to right-leaning CNN political commentator Scott Jennings and began:
The sickening video -- as I think Jeff Flake, that's what he was referring to, that the President put out trying to gin up fears about this disgusting psychopath who killed two deputies -- he says that this was the Democrats' fault. This was an illegal immigrant -- he was here in the country --
Camerota then interrupted her commentary to read from the video: "Look at that. 'Democrats let him stay,' is what the President is claiming. Let's get the facts. He came in illegally when he was 16 years old -- President Clinton was President at the time -- President Clinton deported him in 1997."
She continued:
He snuck back in a year later. He was arrested by Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix who you know is a very hardliner on immigration, and released for some reason, a Republican, Sheriff Joe Arpaio released him. Then, at some point, he was deported. George W. Bush, your former boss, became President, he snuck back in when President George Bush was in office. He got married while President George Bush was in office. He stayed in the country while President George Bush was in office.
Referring to Jennings's history of working for the Bush administration, Camerota added: "I don't think this is your fault, Scott. I really don't think this is your fault, nor do I think it was the Democrats' fault. Why can the President pin this on the Democrats?"
Not mentioned was that the illegal immigrant in question, Luis Bracamontes, was arrested many times over the years and might have benefited from liberal policies in California or Salt Lake City that would have made it easier for him as an illegal immigrant to avoid deportation than it might have been if he had stayed in more conservative Arizona.
About half an hour later, Avlon demonstrated that one can do a "Reality Check" on CNN without being accurate as he contradicted his colleague Camerota and suggested that it was unknown who was President when Bracamontes entered the country, and even gave the impression Bush was in office when the murders happened even though it was in October 2014 when Barack Obama was President. Avlon:
Take this latest campaign video, which critics have called "the most racist ad ever blessed by a President. It claims this cop killer was allowed in by the Democrats. In fact, there's no record of his entry at all, but he was deported the first time during the Clinton administration. And when he returned to murder two police officers with an AR-15, that was during the Bush administration
The Sacramento Bee claims that Bracamontes entered the U.S. at age 16 in 1993 when Clinton was President before being deported the first time in 1997.
Notably, according to a Nexis search, CNN has generally ignored informing its viewers about this cop killer story unless the liberal news network is complaining about President Trump drawing attention to it. After initially giving the story attention when the murders first happened on October 30, 2014, CNN buried the story until January 2018 when they took time to fret over President Trump bringing it up.
On January 22, 2018, CNN's New Day played a Trump ad that had just been released, and fill-in host Poppy Harlow fretted over whether it was "politics at its worst." Avlon then called the ad "so ugly" and "toxic."
By contrast, at about the same time, FNC's Fox and Friends actually took the time to cover the Bracamontes trial in which he openly bragged in the courtroom about murdering police officers.
