CNN’s Jamie Gangel spoke to an impressive number of former Trump administration officials regarding claims that the former President had a “standing order” that allowed him to declassify documents as he saw fit. 

Last week, John Solomon reported that the Trump team claimed the former president "had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them."

On CNN’s The Lead Thursday, Gangel told host Jake Tapper she had spoken to 18 former Trump officials. All disputed the claim.

“It wasn’t just a couple of people,” Gangel said. “We reached out to 18 former very senior Trump officials. White House, intelligence community, Justice Department, even his former chiefs of staff.”

While some of the 18 laughed it off, Gangel got some to dispute it on the record, with one of the sources calling it "bullshit."

"Nothing approaching an order that foolish was ever given, and I can’t imagine anyone that worked at the White House after me that would have simply shrugged their shoulders and allowed that order to go forward without dying in the ditch trying to stop it," former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told Gangel.

Former acting Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, former national security adviser John Bolton and former national security official Olivia Troye also disputed the claim

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade spewed dangerous misinformation on theInflation Reduction Act while guest hostingTucker Carlson Tonight last week. 

Last Thursday, Kilmeade warned that an increase in funding to the IRS would allow government agents to “hunt down and kill" Americans who don’t pay the required amount.

“Before the IRS took it down yesterday, there was a posting on their website that listed the job requirements for a special agent’s position," he said.

"The major duties require agents to ‘carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.'”

Kilmeade went on to compare the IRS to James Bond, adding, "But instead of hunting down evil maniacs, these agents hunt down and kill middle-class taxpayers that don’t pay enough?”

“It’s Joe Biden’s new army," he continued, pushing a completely senseless argument.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough slammed the ridiculous rhetoric on Friday’s Morning Joe, accusing Kilmeade of “deliberately trying to get Americans” to harm Internal Revenue Service agents.

"This is not Infowars. This is mainstream, pro-Trump rhetoric. And they are deliberately trying to get Americans to a position of where they’ll do harm to IRS agents," said Scarborough.

While he did not call out Kilmeade by name, he went on to blast "a top Fox News host saying that the IRS is coming to, quote, ‘hunt down and kill middle-class taxpayers.’"