A threat President Donald Trump issued to Nigeria was likely inspired by a Fox News segment, according to a new report from CNN.
Trump's threat to invade Nigeria with "guns-a-blazing" was issued about an hour after Fox News aired a segment about Christians being targeted by Islamist groups in Nigeria, Alayna Treene reported on Monday. He saw the segment while he was traveling to Florida for his Gatsby-inspired Halloween party.
Treene discussed her reporting on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" on Monday.
"After that, one of the sources said it was immediate, that it sparked some anger in him and he began to inquire about it, asking his staff to be better read on it," Treene said. "But what was interesting was that shortly after he had touched down on Air Force One, he had just taken The Beast, his presidential motorcade, to Mar-a-Lago when you saw that first post from him and it read, 'Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.'"