Dr Mehmet Oz was corrected live on air after he made false claims that his opponent John Fetterman wanted to end life imprisonment as his first political priority.
The pro-Trump Republican candidate for Pennsylvania’s US Senate seat is trailing his Democratic rival for the open seat with less than a month left before election day.
He was fact-checked about his claim towards Mr Fetterman during an interview with Dasha Burns on NBC News.
“When John Fetterman is asked, ‘If you could wave a magic wand, what’s the one thing you would do?’ … He says, ‘Well, I’d get rid of life in prison,’” claimed Dr Oz.
But Burns, who had just interviewed Mr Fetterman, called him out on the inaccurate claim.
“I asked him that. He actually said it would be codifying Roe v Wade and abolishing the filibuster,” she responded.
Earlier this week Mr Fetterman, 53, gave Burns his first interview since having a stroke in May, and conducted it with closed captioning because of auditory processing issues he is still suffering from.
Dr. Oz: “When John Fetterman is asked, ‘If you could wave a magic wand, what’s the 1 thing you would do?’ … He says, ‘Well, I’d get rid of life in prison.’”
NBC’s Dasha Burns: “I asked him that. He actually said it would be codifying Roe v. Wade and abolishing the filibuster.” pic.twitter.com/rbGrZFWvBf
Burns was widely criticised when she stated that “in small talk — before the interview, without captioning — it wasn’t clear (Fetterman) was understanding our conversation.”
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