In fact, they reported that ABC had made this claim but firmly dissociated themselves from it.
ABC Suspends Reporter Brian Ross Over Erroneous Report About Trump
Brian Ross, the chief investigative correspondent for ABC News, has been suspended for four weeks without pay after incorrectly reporting that Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, would testify that President Trump had directed him to make contact with Russian officials while Mr. Trump was still a candidate, the network announced on Saturday.
Mr. Trump directed Mr. Flynn to make contact after the election, as president-elect, the network said.
ABC initially issued a clarification after Mr. Ross made the statement during a live broadcast on Friday but later called it a correction.
“We deeply regret and apologize for the serious error we made yesterday,” ABC said in a statement on Saturday.
“The reporting conveyed by Brian Ross during the special report had not been fully vetted through our editorial standards process.”
Mr. Ross’s initial report, which he said was informed by a confidant of Mr. Flynn’s, would have been a bombshell revelation in the continuing investigation into whether Mr. Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to interfere in the presidential election.
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