CNN shredded several "fact-challenged" statements on the first night of the Republican National Convention — including two of the "biggest lies" which came from former President Donald Trump, who didn't actually speak live at the event.
Anchor Jake Tapper introduced live fact checker Daniel Dale after the first night concluded, quipping that the GOP unleashed statements that were "shall we say, contrary to the facts? Fact-challenged?"
Dale slammed Trump for repeating his "usual 2020 election nonsense" during pre-recorded video comments.
"Talking about the 2020 election having been unfair, Democrats supposedly being serial election cheaters — just nonsense," said Dale.
He also took down a "smattering" of false and misleading statements from other speakers, including Michael Whatley, chairman of the Republican National Committee, who claimed there was peace in the Middle East under Trump.
"Not even close to being true," said Dale. "There were a whole bunch of ongoing wars, not to mention of course there was the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
Dale also took down a pre-recorded video that claimed Trump signed the largest tax cut in history — "he did not," Dale said.
Other videos said inflation was at a 40-year high under President Joe Biden but didn't explain that that high was hit two years ago in June 2022.
"That inflation today is about a third of what it was then," said Dale.
The same happened with gas prices, in which a video claimed the national average for gas reached $5 a gallon.
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That video "didn't explain that that was the June 2022 average. It's now way down from that as well," he said.
Dale played a video of firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), in which she said hundreds of thousands of American-born workers have lost their jobs under Biden despite Democrats claiming the U.S. is "thriving."
Her claim, Dale said, was "misleading at best."
"And I think I'm being generous," he said. "The data actually shows there's been major job growth for American-born workers under President Biden; 4.7 million more American-born workers had jobs in June 2024, last month, than three years prior."
He added: "Now, I said misleading rather than false because, sure, it's possible hundreds of thousands of particular American-born workers lost their jobs under President Biden, but Greene certainly created the impression I think, Jake, that American-born workers on the whole have lost jobs during this presidency, and that's just wrong. This group has gained big on the whole."
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