Trump's favorite cable show were outraged that convicted liar Elliot Abrams, Trump's envoy to Venezuela, was treated so harshly by Rep. Ilhan Omar. Suddenly, if a Republican has been convicted of a crime, they are given hero status by Fox News if they support Trump. It's freaking mind-boggling. Abrams was convicted on two misdemeanor counts of unlawfully withholding information from Congress when he lied and said the reports on the El Mozote massacre of hundreds of civilians by the military in El Salvador "were not credible." The misdemeanors were the result of a plea deal he struck to avoid much more serious crimes and he received a presidential pardon by H.W.