‘A Lot Of Lies!’ CNN’s Daniel Dale Knocks Down Whopping 26 False Claims From Trump’s Bonkers New Jersey Rally

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale knocked down a whopping 26 false claims from former President Donald Trump’s weekend rally in New Jersey, “A lot of lies!” according to anchor Abby Phillip.

Trump went off on numerous tangents this weekend at a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey that included remarks about “the late great Hannibal Lecter” — anti-hero of the films and television series based on the novels of Thomas Harris. None of those works include the death of the character. Trump and his campaign claim the rally was attended by over 100,000 people.

On Monday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Dale regaled Phillip and co-host Laura Coates with a fact check that concluded with Phillip telling Dale to get himself some water:

PHILLIP: Now, before Donald Trump sat in the courthouse today to face his nemesis, he spent the weekend at the Jersey Shore holding a rally and telling, well, a lot of lies! CNN’s Daniel Dale is with us to fact check. Daniel, you’ve been busy.

DANIEL DALE: I’ve been busy. I counted at least 26 false claims in this one rally speech. I’m going to take a deep breath. Let’s try to go through them all. So Trump said Democrats rigged the 2020 election. We know that’s a flat out lie. Trump said Joe Biden cheats on election. Another lie.

Trump said he’s leading in, quote, “every single poll”. He leads in many polls, betrayals and a whole bunch of others. Trump said he won South Carolina by 40 or 50 points. That’s not true in any primary or general election. Trump said Biden-era jobs numbers are rigged. They simply are not. He claimed that inflation under Biden has been 50 percent. In fact, total inflation has been roughly 20 percent. Trump said the price of bacon under Biden is up 79 percent. It’s actually about 13 percent.

Trump said New Jersey has the highest electricity cost in the country. Not even close to true. He said California gas prices had just hit $7.21 a gallon. GasBuddy tells me that just one out of 10,526 California stations was even above $7 the day he spoke. The state average was $5.26.

Trump said we have 42,000 soldiers in South Korea. It’s about 28,000. He said that before he changed things himself, South Korea paid the U.S. I’m going to cough. I’m sorry. He said South Korea paid the U.S. like nothing for that military presence. It was actually paying the U.S. more than $800 million per year, roughly half the cost.

He said he built 571 miles of border wall. Federal data shows it was 458 miles. He said his ongoing criminal trial was, quote, “all done by Biden”. Again, there’s no evidence that Biden has had any involvement in this trial.

He said Biden indicted him. Nope. Four grand juries of ordinary citizens indicted him. He said he’s been indicted more than gangster Al Capone. No, Capone had at least six indictments to Trump’s four. Trump said Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg has allowed crime to go completely unchecked. That’s wrong. Manhattan crime was down last year, has continued going down so far this year.

Trump said Biden’s Oval Office is surrounded by fascists. Just made up. It’s fiction. He spoke of NATO countries having failed to pay, quote, “bills before he came along”. That’s not true. NATO’s guideline for countries’ own defense spending does not create any bills.

He said millions of migrants from prisons and mental institutions are entering the country. That’s more fiction. He said foreign leaders in Africa and Asia are emptying their prisons to send prisoners here to the U.S. as migrants on purpose. Also fiction. He spoke of how Biden- era illegal immigration will supposedly destroy Medicare and Social Security. Even anti-immigration activists acknowledge illegal immigration actually boosts those programs since many undocumented people pay taxes even though they’re ineligible to receive benefits.

He said every legal scholar wanted Roe v. Wade overturned and abortion policy returned to the states. Totally wrong. Multiple legal scholars have told me personally that they had themselves wanted Roe preserved. He said every Democrat, he said for the most part, wanted Roe overturned. A complete reversal of reality. Huge majorities of Democrats supported Roe.

Trump said Democrats want to change federal law to allow the execution of babies after birth, another out-and-out fabrication. He said he will, quote, “stop Joe Biden’s sinister plan to abolish the suburbs”. No such plan, of course, exists. And Trump said the bleach-bit email deletion software used by Hillary Clinton’s team years ago is, quote, “so expensive,” it is actually free of charge.

PHILLIP: That is oldie but goodie. Daniel, take a sip of water.

DALE: I will. An entire glass of water.

PHILLIP: You know what, you said a lot of very important things, but I can’t get over the price of bacon one. It’s just very weird.

COATES: 79 percent will be high. Yeah. I’m just saying.

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.