CNN Fact Checker Daniel Dale Reviews the Whoppers Told By Trump During His ’60 Minutes’ Interview

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CNN fact checker Daniel Dale highlighted 18 “inaccurate assertions” made by President Donald Trump during Sunday’s 60 Minutes interview, with “the vast majority of them previously debunked,” Dale wrote on CNN.com.

“Trump told his usual lie that the free and fair 2020 election was stolen from him,” Dale wrote. “He lied again that grocery prices ‘are down’ even after CBS’ Norah O’Donnell informed him they are up. He declared once more that there is now ‘no inflation,’ though there certainly is, and then that inflation is 2% or ‘even less than 2%,’ though the most recent available Consumer Price Index figure is now up to 3%.”

Dale continued, “The president also deployed multiple other fictional numbers,” as he listed off receipts:

• He falsely claimed “$17 trillion” is being invested in the US “right now,” though the $17 trillion figure is nearly double the White House’s own wildly inflated figure.
• He falsely claimed each alleged drug boat the US has attacked in recent weeks “kills 25,000 Americans,” though experts note this figure plainly does not make sense.
• He falsely claimed some recent former presidents invoked the Insurrection Act “28 times,” though no individual president has invoked it on more than six occasions with this record set by President Ulysses S. Grant in the 1800s.
• He falsely claimed he has ended “eight wars,” though his list includes two situations that were not wars at all and at least one war that continues.
• He falsely claimed CBS aired an edited interview with Trump’s 2024 opponent Kamala Harris “two days” before the election, though it was actually more than four full weeks before Election Day.
• He falsely claimed former President Joe Biden gave $350 billion in aid to Ukraine (the real number is well under half that) and allowed in “25 million” migrants (the real number here is well under half that, too).

Read the CNN.com article here.

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