Sean Hannity Falls for Parody Site Claiming U.S. Accepting 250,000 Syrian Refugees

Sean Hannity Falls for Parody Site Claiming U.S. Accepting 250,000 Syrian Refugees (Mediaite)

Fox News host Sean Hannity reported on air October 21 that 250,000 Syrian refugees were going to be settled in the United States, a wildly incorrect figure that appears to have originated from a parody website.

“You see the backlash emerging now in Europe over the refugee problem from Syria and Iraq,” Hannity said. “The president said he’s going to bring in 250,000 refugees into this country. My fear is, and our national intelligence director James Clapper said, that ISIS in Iraq will infiltrate the refugee population.”

“If that’s the case, I don’t think we can risk taking one refugee in, although we can help probably on a humanitarian basis,” he concluded.