Fox News’ Neil Cavuto: No Confirmation Yet of ‘Nefarious Elements’ in Caravan, ‘Suspicion Isn’t Good Enough’

For the past two days, Fox News’ Shepard Smith has been fact-checking President Donald Trump‘s claims about the migrant caravan, including his tweet that there are “unknown Middle Easterners” there. And after the President’s latest comments, Neil Cavuto fact-checked Trump too.

CNN’s Jim Acosta confronted Trump this afternoon on whether he has any evidence that there are Middle Easterners or terrorists in the caravan. Trump eventually said “there’s no proof of anything” and added, “They very well could be.”

After the presser wrapped, Cavuto noted the President’s claim about MS-13 and possibly even “ISIS elements” in the caravan before saying, “We have seen no way to verify the fact that there were MS-13 elements or anything approaching that. The president said there is no proof of anything, which seemed to remove any of the doubts there might have been about the veracity of that statement.”

“We have simply not heard separate confirmation of any such thing that there were elements like that within the 7,000 to 10,000 migrants who are making their way to the United States,” he continued.

And in case that wasn’t clear enough, Cavuto said this:

“I want to stress here, there has been no independent confirmation of some of these migrants being terrorists or certainly parts of MS-13 or any other nefarious element. There is simply no way to prove that, the suspicions notwithstanding, suspicion isn’t good enough. And as the president said, and I thought this was a takeaway, ‘there is no proof of anything,’ which is not exactly a reassuring comment to make when you make a charge like that.”

Watch above, via Fox News.

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