Meghan McCain hit out at her colleagues on “The View” on Monday for perpetrating “fake news” after the panel relayed an erroneous ABC report about President Trump and former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
“I went to a Christmas party over the weekend,” McCain said on the ABC daytime talk show Monday. “It’s no secret, most of my friends are in conservative media, [and] I feel a lot like I’m an astronaut from another planet to come here to try to explain both worlds to each other — that’s how different I feel on this show sometimes.”
“And I will say that fake news, and what we did on Friday, that’s what I was accused of being a part of,” she added.
ERRONEOUS FLYNN REPORT DISCUSSED: After we shared an ABC News report on Michael Flynn last week that was later deemed incorrect, the co-hosts react and discuss. pic.twitter.com/U8FESdKpHd
— The View (@TheView) December 5, 2017
McCain detailed her discomfort when some of her co-hosts, most notably Joy Behar, and the studio audience cheered while discussing Brian Ross’s incorrect report suggesting Trump directed Flynn to contact Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign.
“When it happened in real time, I think everyone who was watching the show could see my discomfort at the room erupting like the Dodgers had just won the World Series,” McCain said. “If we’re celebrating a breach of national security, it’s going to tear our country apart.”
Ross issued a clarification that Trump was president-elect when he made the order, and has since been suspended from ABC for four weeks.
McCain is a conservative commentator who, like her father, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has also been a vocal critic of Trump’s.
Behar is a strident Democrat.
