Fox national correspondent Bill Melugin — arguably the country’s foremost border reporter (alongside NewsNation’s Ali Bradley and the New York Post’s Jennie Taer) — absolutely cooked Axios’s Russell Contreras on Friday morning in reaction to this toolish X post seeking to defend President Biden’s handling of the border crisis:
Melugin quote tweeted over this X post and laid waste, starting with exasperation of “I cannot believe this was printed” and then noting Contreras was “the same guy who wrote Biden had the most secure border ever,” which we (and many, many others) dunked on back in August 2023.
His headline on that particular day? “Axios Explains: The myth of a U.S.-Mexico ‘open border.’”
Melugin added Contreras came along and decided to it’s “a ‘scoop’ that Biden’s Border Patrol in November arrested more illegal…
