Former President Donald Trump took yet another opportunity to complain about the criminal proceedings against him outside the Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday — and, just like on previous occasions, CNN's Daniel Dale was there to debunk all the false claims he uttered shortly after in a conversation with anchor Jake Tapper.
This came after a lengthy day in which Trump's former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen, set to be the final witness for the prosecution, was subject to intense cross-examination by Trump's team.
Dale began with what he called the "Groundhog Day fact check" — for a claim he has had to repeatedly address after almost all of Trump's speeches. "Former President Trump claimed that this trial is all election interference by President Joe Biden. There remains zero evidence whatsoever that President Biden has had any involvement in this case, which as we know was brought by a locally elected prosecutor, Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg."
Additionally, he continued, "former President Trump claimed that we have record inflation. We do not have record inflation. We have a 3.5 percent inflation rate. That is relatively high by recent standards, but it's nowhere close to the all-time record of more than 20 percent. We did have a 40-year high back in June of 2022, but it has since come way down to about a third of that. He again said that we have many migrants coming in from mental institutions and insane asylums. I have repeatedly asked his campaign to substantiate that story with any evidence whatsoever. They've been completely unable to do so. He said he's leading in every poll, as we know, he's certainly leading in many polls, but not all of them."
"Let me interrupt for one second," Tapper cut in. "Just on the migrant thing, he also said — unless my ears deceived me — that Joe Biden has let 15 to 20 million migrants into this country ... I've never heard anyone come close to that number in terms of the estimates, 15 to 20 million, that's actually the estimates of how many undocumented immigrants there are in the country right now in aggregate."
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"And it's hard to fact-check, Jake, because they'll say, well, the gottaways, we don't know the total number who evaded Border Patrol," Dale concurred. "I can't give you a precise number, but that number, according to experts, is way too high. Back to the polls. He's, you know, he said I'm leading in every poll. He's certainly not. He said he's not allowed to talk about big portions of my case and nothing like that has ever happened. That's kinda vague, but this is not the first gag order in American history. These gag orders are relatively commonplace. He is not the first person to be barred from attacking the witnesses in his criminal trial."
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