Fox News has falsely implicated the protester who was beaten up at a Donald Trump rally in a case of voter fraud involving absentee ballots issued in the name of his “dead” grandmother. 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. He and others associated with the Republican nominee’s campaign have stoked conspiracies about the existence of widespread voter fraud that have been debunked by independent experts. The Fox News host Brian Kilmeade couched his segment about Crites and his grandmother, which was labelled “Reno Trump protester linked to voter fraud”, as evidence that voting scams are not as unusual as Democrats claim. He was not, as has been claimed on social media, the same protester who interrupted Trump at a rally in Florida.

Source: The Guardian November 08, 2016 10:06 UTC