Paul Manafort pled guilty to five charges of manslaughter Wednesday, a graphic on ABC News erroneously informed viewers.
ABC issued an apology and blamed a chyron error after they displayed incorrect information about the former Trump campaign manager in a lower-third graphic of a news broadcast.
Statement from @ABC News: We regret and apologize for the false lower third graphic that aired during our special report. We are investigating how incorrect information was in our system and how and why it was allowed to air. (1/2)
— ABCNews PR (@ABCNewsPR) June 20, 2018
(cont.) We apologize to our viewers and to Mr. Manafort. There simply is no excuse for this sort of mistake. (2/2)
— ABCNews PR (@ABCNewsPR) June 20, 2018
“We are investigating how incorrect information was in our system and how and why it was allowed to air,” ABC claimed in tweets.
Look what Fake ABC News put out. I guess they had it prepared from the 13 Angry Democrats leading the Witch Hunt! #StopTheBias pic.twitter.com/c0XOk1btEQ
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 20, 2018
On Tuesday it was reported Manafort is being held in solitary confinement at a jail in Virginia over a witness tampering charge after being swept up in FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
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