Fox News’ Harris Faulkner corrected Brian Kilmeade after he promoted a debunked claim about the daughter of the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s forthcoming criminal trial in New York on Outnumbered Tuesday.

Weighing in on Trump’s complaints about a gag order forbidding him from attacking Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter and others, as well as his argument that Merchan should be removed from the case, Kilmeade said that he had “looked into the case over the last few days” and said “you’d think” Merchan’s daughter was “going to seventh grade with a backpack on and the president’s saying things about her.”

“She’s an adult! She is running a firm called Authentic Campaigns. She works for Vice President Kamala Harris handling all of her advertising, may or may not have had a website with the president in prison, behind prison bars on it. That would bother me if the judge has a daughter like that,” he continued.

While the younger Merchan has worked for the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s campaign in her capacity at Authentic Campaigns, the picture referenced by Kilmeade was not shared by her.

According to Al Baker, a spokesman for New York’s Office of Court Administration, the picture was posted by an account that “no longer belongs to her.”

“It is not linked to her email address, nor has she posted under that screen name since she deleted the account. Rather, it represents the reconstitution, last April, and manipulation of an account she long ago abandoned,” he said after Trump accused her of having “posted a picture of me behind bars.”

Faulkner corrected the record shortly after Kilmeade finished enumerating his issues with the case against Trump.

“By the way, the website that the daughter’s was on, it was on X. And what the legal paper said in court was that she hadn’t been a part of that page for over a year. And Matt Whitaker last hour and I, former acting AG for Trump, surmised that perhaps somebody had squatted that page,” she noted.

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