Fox reporter corrects his false claim about scope of Manafort indictment ending before he worked for the Trump campaign

Rosen used previously botched time frame to falsely assert indictment covered only time “well before Paul Manafort became associated with the Trump campaign”

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From the October 30 edition of Fox News' Outnumbered Overtime:

JAMES ROSEN: I also want to correct, if I may, Harris, one inaccuracy from my reporting on air earlier today. I stated apparently, according to my detractors on Twitter, that the scope of the [Paul] Manafort-[Rick] Gates indictment extends from 2005 to 2015. That is when Misters Manafort and Gates represented the Ukrainian interests that are at the heart of the indictment. But the indictment also does state that the alleged financial crimes by Misters Manafort and Gates extended possibly into 2017.

Previously:

Fox reporter lies about time frame of Manafort indictment to claim it was “well before Paul Manafort became associated with the Trump campaign”

Trump's lie about Manafort's illegal activity predating his campaign came from Fox News

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