Benjamin Netanyahu was given a platform to spout lies and war propaganda on Fox News in an interview with a groveling Bret Baier, who not only allowed the Israeli prime minister's lies to cruise by unchecked but actually invited him to expand upon them.

Netanyahu promoted countless incendiary falsehoods and unsubstantiated claims throughout the interview, including the assertion that Iran was working on producing nuclear weapons and intended to give them to Yemen's Houthis to facilitate global terrorism, and that Iran was working on intercontinental ballistic missiles to nuke the east coast of the United States as well.

Perhaps the most ridiculous and brazenly propagandistic claim advanced by Netanyahu was that Iran had twice attempted to assassinate the president of the United States.

"These are people who chant 'Death to America.' They've tried to assassinate President Trump twice," said the prime minister.

Rather than push back on this claim or point out that there's been no reported evidence that any such thing has occurred, Baier instead offered Netanyahu the opportunity to drive the narrative home further with claims of secret intelligence about these alleged assassination plots.

"You just said Iran tried to assassinate President Trump twice," Baier said. "Do you have intel that the assassination attempts on President Trump were directly from Iran?"

"Through proxies, yes, through their intel, yes, they want to kill him," Netanyahu asserted.

Netanyahu had previously made this claim on his own platform in a statement on Friday wishing President Trump a happy birthday, and now he's carrying it into the mainstream news media of the United States.

Netanyahu's claim has already been repeated in outlets like The New York Post, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, and The Independent. So it's in the blood stream now. The information ecosystem of US politics has already been infected with the virus.