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CNN’s blowhard fact-checker Daniel Dale may have just inadvertently confirmed a financial tie between leftist billionaire George Soros and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in a fact-check that tried to dismantle the connection. Dale rushed to Soros’ defense in his March 31 piece flailing at former President Donald Trump for connecting Bragg — who is leading a politicized, prosecutorial vendetta against him — to Soros. Dale called the connection “exaggerated” and tried to downplay Soros’s $1 million contribution to the leftist Color of Change PAC — the racially charged group that pledged $1 million to support Bragg just days prior...
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Former President Donald Trump began his 2024 presidential campaign just as he ended his presidency in 2021: with a whole lot of inaccuracy. Like many of Trump’s speeches as president, his announcement speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday was filled with false claims about a variety of topics – from his record in office to his Democratic opponents to the economy, the environment and foreign policy. Here is a fact check of 20 false or misleading things he said. This is not a comprehensive list. Afghanistan withdrawal Trump claimed Tuesday evening that the US left $85 billion worth...
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CNN’s fact checker Daniel Dale pushed back on President Biden’s recent claim that his policies had helped to reduce the federal deficit – revealing that one expert told him that the Democrat’s assertion was “almost bizarro world” in its misrepresentation of the situation. “Let me remind you again: I reduced the federal deficit,” Biden said a speech last Wednesday. “All the talk about the deficit from my Republican friends, I love it. I’ve reduced $350 billion in my first year in office.” Biden made the claim while touting his administration’s economic track record – despite fierce criticism from Republican lawmakers...
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Washington (CNN)A television attack ad from conservative Super PAC Club for Growth Action uses egregiously deceptive editing to build its case that Pat McCrory, a Republican candidate for a US Senate seat in North Carolina, is a "Trump-hater" and "liberal faker." Facts First: The attack ad dishonestly sliced and diced remarks McCrory made on the Charlotte radio show he co-hosted after his term as North Carolina governor ended in 2017 -- changing the meaning of some of his quotes to transform them into what sounded like direct attacks on former President Donald Trump and Trump supporters. As CNN reported in...
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Democrat Terry McAuliffe's hopes of returning as governor of Virginia were dashed Tuesday when Glenn Youngkin became the first Republican to win statewide office in the commonwealth since 2009. Youngkin's victory comes as President Joe Biden's approval ratings have sagged and Democrats have struggled to deliver a clear message. Addressing the election only briefly during a press conference Wednesday, Biden attempted to cast the situation in a positive light. However, his remarks weren't entirely accurate. McAuliffe's vote totals Asked about the results in Virginia, Biden suggested that when compared to past Democratic candidates McAuliffe actually did well, despite his loss....
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Fact checker's cryptic response raises further questions CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale appears to have broken his nearly month-long silence after a Washington Free Beacon investigation exposed his curious absence from public life. "Hahaha a media outlet published an attack article because I went on vacation? Life is very confusing," an individual purporting to be Dale posted on his verified Twitter account. It was the first post from that account since Sept. 17, when Dale (or someone posing as the fact checker) wrote, "I'm gone for a while goodbye everybody," but declined to elaborate.
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Swing state by swing state, former President Donald Trump is trying to get people who tried to overturn the 2020 election chosen to be in charge of the 2024 election. Trump's Monday endorsement of state Rep. Mark Finchem for Arizona secretary of state is the latest in a series of announcements that has alarmed independent elections experts. Trump has now backed Republicans who supported his lies about the 2020 election for the job of top elections official in three crucial battlegrounds -- Arizona, Michigan and Georgia -- where the current elections chiefs opposed his efforts to reverse his 2020 defeat....
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Jen Psaki's job of cleaning up after Joe Biden just got even tougher. She now has to try to explain away Biden's claim to have visited the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after the 2018 anti-Semitic massacre there that killed 11 people. There's just one problem with the claim: the synagogue says Biden never visited. CNN called Biden out on it this morning. Reporter Daniel Dale, CNN's resident Biden fact-checker, said Biden's statement "appears to be just false." Not "just" in the sense of "barely" false. "Just" in the sense of "flat-out" false! Get the rest of the story...
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The legitimacy of the election After meeting with Biden and other congressional leaders on Wednesday, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy claimed that "I don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. I think that is all over with. We're sitting here with the President today." Facts First: McCarthy's claim is not even close to true. Many Republicans continue to groundlessly question the legitimacy of the presidential election. One of them is former President Donald Trump -- who issued a Monday statement that falsely alleged the election had been marred by "the greatest Election Fraud in the history...
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“I’ve never seen a POTUS bring one of those to a news conference,” former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer tweeted regarding Biden’s notes. Doocy also noted that Biden relied on “the list” of reporters to call on.. During one portion of the press conference, the president appeared to solely rely on a script when responding to a question about North Korea, Fox News contributor Guy Benson pointed out. NEW PHOTOS: Biden’s press conference cheat sheet has a picture of each reporter on it, their name, and who to call on in numerical order pic.twitter.com/KFCjNtDewc — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 26,...
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For CNN’s liberal fact-checker Daniel Dale to admit that President Donald Trump was “correct” about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s fracking stance must have been a hard pill to swallow for the network. During CNN’s post-debate analysis, Anderson Cooper 360° anchor Anderson Cooper pointed out that Trump went after “Biden on the issue of fracking to extract oil and gas.” Cooper then showed a clip of the Trump-Biden exchange on fracking, where Biden claimed that he “never said ‘I oppose fracking.’” Cooper then appeared to try to lead Dale into giving the answer he wanted by saying, “Daniel, he [Biden]...
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The Republican National Convention started off with a parade of dishonesty, in stark contrast with last week's Democratic convention. While CNN also watched and fact-checked the Democrats, those four nights combined didn't have the number of misleading and false claims made on the first night of the Republicans' convention. Here are some of the most noteworthy falsehoods from night one of the RNC:
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Washington (CNN)A new ad from President Donald Trump's campaign deceptively alters a photo of former Vice President Joe Biden campaigning outdoors in Iowa to make it seem as if Biden is "hiding" in his Delaware basement. The ad also uses two other images in misleading ways: one of Biden at an Iowa house party and one of Biden praying at a Delaware church. Biden has certainly campaigned cautiously amid the coronavirus pandemic, leading Trump in the polls even as he has limited his public appearances. Contrary to Trump's repeated assertions, though, Biden has made numerous campaign trips outside his Delaware...
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President Donald Trump has long been fond of turning supposedly official events into de facto campaign rallies. Even by his own standards, though, his Tuesday speech was extreme. Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, at what was billed as a "press conference" in which he would give remarks about China, Trump delivered a rambling 52-minute monologue filled with pre-scripted attacks on Democratic opponent Joe Biden. As usual, Trump's comments were filled with egregious lies and other false claims. We haven't yet had a chance to comb through the entire transcript, but here is a list of the 19 false...
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Washington (CNN) -- A Friday exchange between Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and a Fox News journalist has drawn attention to Biden's shifting accounts of what he advised President Barack Obama about the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Fox News journalist Peter Doocy challenged Biden about his criticism of President Donald Trump's decision to order the killing of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. Doocy asked Biden if he would be willing, as commander-in-chief, to thwart an "imminent attack on Americans" by using an airstrike to kill a "terrorist leader." (Trump claimed on Friday, without providing evidence, that Soleimani...
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is dishonest about a whole lot of things. But he is rarely as comprehensively dishonest as he has been about his dealings with Ukraine and the impeachment inquiry they have triggered. Relentless deceit has seemed to be his primary defense strategy in the court of public opinion. Trump has made false claims about almost every separate component of the story, from his July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the whistleblower who complained about the call to Democrats' impeachment inquiry hearings. The President is dissembling about so many different topics at once that it...
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President Donald Trump made a series of false statements in an interview that aired Thursday on Spanish-language network Telemundo. Most notably, Trump repeatedly claimed that he had "inherited" an Obama-era policy of separating migrant children from their parents. In fact, he instituted the policy. Family separationTrump said former president Barack Obama had left him a family separation policy. "When I became president, President Obama had a separation policy," Trump said. "I didn't have it. He had it. I brought the families together. I'm the one that put 'em together." Interviewer José Díaz-Balart challenged Trump on the assertion, pointing out that...
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