CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale stated President Donald Trump caught to his script throughout Tuesday evening’s speech earlier than a joint session of Congress ― however he didn’t keep on with the information.
“President Trump was, consider it or not, marginally extra cautious with the information tonight than he often is,” Dale instructed CNN’s Jake Tapper, including that’s solely when in comparison with his marketing campaign rallies, through which Trump typically ad-libbed 30 false claims or extra.
“However by the usual of any politician in Washington who will not be Donald Trump, that was nonetheless a particularly dishonest speech,” he stated. “I counted no less than 13 flat false claims, and that may be a preliminary depend that doesn’t embody a complete bunch of extra deceptive or uncorroborated claims.”
Trump, Dale stated, repeated his frequent false declare about tariffs, saying they’re paid by different nations and never in the end the American shopper. Trump additionally delivered “wildly exaggerated figures on inflation and immigration beneath President Biden.”
And that was only for starters.
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