Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA,
ABC News is facing ongoing scrutiny after publishing a controversial story about President Donald Trump's sons and abruptly taking it down after critics challenged several claims that they slammed as false.
Donald Trump Jr. poses with his 11-year-old son Spencer. / PHOTO: @donaldjtrumpjr via InstagramThe story centered on the claims that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's "investments have won billions in Pentagon since" Donald Trump returned to office in 2025.
It claimed that companies in which the president's sons had invested had benefited from more than $6 billion in government contracts.
ABC ran the story Wednesday but removed it an unknown time later that day. The article was no longer available on the outlet's website by Thursday morning, according to Mediaite.
The page instead displayed an error message reading: "OPPS! PAGE UNAVAILABLE. The page either does not exist or is currently unavailable."
The story was written by ABC reporter Nathan Lee, who, after the story's deletion, deactivated his LinkedIn and X page. Headline USA has reached out to Lee but has not received a response.
Before the removal, the ABC story had enjoyed widespread promotion from Democratic politicians and lawmakers, mo
