Fox News’ Laura Ingraham issued an on-air correction Thursday night after she alleged one of the whistleblower’s lawyers had “presented Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer” the night before.
The whistleblower filed a complaint in August in centered on the President Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he asked the Ukrainians to investigate 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
On Wednesday, during Ingraham’s interview with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, she quipped that Mark Zaid, one of the whistleblower’s attorneys, had represented the Senate minority leader and the 2016 presidential candidate.
Zaid responded in a lengthy Twitter thread Thursday evening. “To be clear, at no time have I ever represented Senator Schumer or Secretary Clinton. Ever. Never,” he tweeted, adding that Ingraham “completely confused and conflated me w/my co-counsel @Andrew Bakaj.”
3/No doubt @IngrahamAngle‘s folks completely confused & conflated me w/my co-counsel @AndrewBakaj.
Andrew – when he was 19/20 & in college – interned w/ Senators Schumer & Clinton. Almost 20 years ago.
I worked for UK Tory Govt when I was 20. What actually does that reveal?
— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) October 3, 2019
Bakaj, a former CIA officer, interned with Schumer and Clinton when he was in college two decades ago. Zaid said: “The partisans are trying to smear the legal team as some liberal opposition.” He said he had represented politicians on both sides of the political spectrum, and spent time “working closely” with Rep. Devin Nunes on the Benghazi case.
Ingraham said at the end of her show: Before we go, last night I made a comment about the whistleblower, the lawyer Mark Zaid. And saying he previously represented Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton. That was incorrect. I was mistaking Mark for another attorney representing the whistleblower named Andrew Bakaj, who just worked for Clinton and Schumer. So, it was a different lawyer. I apologize for that mix-up.”
