Fox News host Laura Ingraham, other republicans
participate in slanderous LIE about Biden
Fact check:
Conservative tweeters FALSELY claim Biden didn't show up
at Dover to honor the remains of returning troops'
Washington (CNN)
On Saturday night, an entirely FALSE claim about President Joe Biden went viral among conservatives on Twitter.
"Our heroes were returned to American soil and Dover AFB today.
Nobody from the Biden White House attended!!" tweeted Buzz Patterson,
a Republican congressional candidate in California.
Patterson's tweet -- posted before 11 p.m. on Saturday -- generated thousands of retweets.
And similar claims were made by other conservatives with substantial Twitter followings.
Ryan Fournier, the Students for Trump co-founder who has more than 940,000 followers,
tweeted a near-identical claim. Fournier's tweet specified that "not even the President of
the United States" showed up at Dover."
Fox News host Laura Ingraham amplified a similar tweet; she added,
"The Biden administration doesn't care about our troops."
Richard Grenell, who served as acting director of national intelligence under
President Donald Trump, also amplified a similar tweet
Facts First:
It's completely false that nobody from the Biden administration showed up at Dover Air Force Base to greet the remains of the 13 troops killed in a terror attack on Thursday outside Kabul's airport. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden -- along with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and other administration officials -- attended the dignified transfer at Dover on Sunday morning.
Those viral tweets accusing the Biden administration of being absent at Dover
were posted hours before the remains actually arrived at the base. 
Ingraham, Fournier, Grenell and Patterson ended up deleting their slanderous tweets,
at varying speeds, after their *MISINFORMATION* was pointed out.
There has been no apology from Ingraham........... of course