Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Credibly Presents Dubious Memo Urging Migrants to Vote for Biden — A Memo Fox’s Own Border Reporter Thinks is ‘Fake or Doctored’

Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo presented a memo on her broadcast this morning which purportedly urged migrants entering the U.S. illegally to vote for President Joe Biden. But serious questions have been raised about the authenticity of the memo — including by Fox News’ own border correspondent, who believes it was “fake or doctored.”

In an interview with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Sunday Morning Futures, Bartiromo asked about a memo — supposedly written by a small migrant aid group called Resource Center Matamoros — which urged migrants to vote Biden in November. However, multiple outlets have done extensive reporting on the flyer, which has raised questions about its authenticity. The Associated Press noted the flyer contained numerous grammatical errors and “appeared to include verbatim paragraphs from the organization’s English-language website that were translated into Spanish using online translation software.” NPR added that the flyer contained outdated contact information for Resource Center Matamoros.

And The New York Times reported on security footage outside the group’s office in Matamoros, Mexico — which showed Right-wing provocateurs Anthony and Joshua Rubin posing as volunteers for the group and trying to gain access to the building on April 15. Several hours later, per the Times, the memo was posted on social media by the conservative think tank the Heritage foundation — where it racked up more than nine million views. Speaking with the Times, Anthony Rubin acknowledged he his brother falsely identified themselves as volunteers, but denied planting the flyer. So too did Mike Howell — executive director of the Oversight Project, an arm of the Heritage Foundation which posted the flyer on social media.

“Nothing that we put online has been proven in the least bit inaccurate,” Howell told the Times.

Still, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin — who frequently reports from the southern border — wrote on X/Twitter that he was “extremely skeptical” of the document.

“There’s plenty of controversy with some NGO’s, but this flier seems fake or doctored, even at first glance,” Melugin wrote.

And yet despite all of that, Bartiromo presented the flyer on air Sunday morning with minimal skepticism. Bartiromo did note that the supposed author, Resource Center Matamoros founder Gaby Zavala, denied writing the memo. But apart from that, the Fox News anchor did not mention any other discrepancy with the error-riddled document.

Here is what she said:

“There is a memo that’s been going around at the border and it’s in Spanish. And I want to show you this memo. Because at the bottom of the memo it says – in Spanish – ‘don’t forget to vote for Joe Biden. We need another four years of him.’ This flyer, the woman’s name on the flyer, Gabriela Zavala, she says she was shocked to see the memo because she didn’t write the memo. What can you tell us about this memo? Because she says she didn’t write the memo. And yet there’s a memo at the border which the illegals are reading in Spanish, and it says, go vote Joe Biden. What is this memo all about?”

Paxton was only too happy to take the ball and run — wildly speculating about a plot to place migrants in battleground states to swing the election to Biden.

“The memo speaks for itself,” Paxton said. “There’s no doubt that this is the plan. It’s to encourage these illegals to vote. They’vr given phones, they connect them to Social Security numbers. They connect them to voting in these states. And their job really is to come here and vote, and they’re putting them in the right places, the right states. We don’t know where they’re putting the illegals, but I guarantee you it’s in the crucial states. Joe Biden can’t win this election without illegal voting. And this is the biggest threat to our democracy or a republic that I think we’ve seen since who knows when.”

“This is unbelievable,” Bartiromo responded. “You’re the attorney general. I want to know what you can do about it.”

Watch above, via Fox News.