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Jillian Mele Is Already Caught Up in a Presidential Melee

By Kyle Scott

Published: Jul 10th, 2017 · 5:30 PM EDT

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Remember when I wrote that Jillian Mele had graduated from Breakfast on Broad to reading Donald Trump the news? Well, indeed that’s the case, as Mele, now the news reader on Fox and Friends, literally reads Trump the news each morning.

Today, she delivered a report claiming that James Comey leaked classified info, this based on a report detailing the fact that some of his memos contained such info. Jillian?

Trump retweeted that video and followed it up with:

Soooooo illegal.

The problem, however, is that her report was… inaccurate. Or fake, if you prefer. The Hill didn’t report that his leaked memos to the press contained classified info. The Washington Post explains:

It’s true that “the former FBI director’s personal memos detailing private conversations with President Trump contained … secret information,” as the Fox report summarizes, though not, apparently, top secret material. (The levels of classifications go “confidential,” “secret” and then “top secret.”) But the wording on that Fox report is misleading. The memos contained classified information is true when considering the memos as a group. It is not true, though, that each memo contained classified information — or, at least, it’s not true that each memo was marked as being classified.

This issue came up during Comey’s June testimony, at which point Comey made clear that the memo he gave to his friend to leak, documenting a meeting on Feb. 14 of this year, was not one that included classified material.

FOX it seems has owned up to the mistake and will address it on-air tomorrow, as reported by Brian Stelter, who  Mele out by name:

Welcome to the show.