CNN’s Daniel Dale Rips Through Trump’s ‘Lie-A-Minute’ Post-Inauguration Speech To Prominent Fans

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale ripped through President Donald Trump’s inaugural address and the “lie-a-minute” follow-up speech to a group of prominent supporters.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper was joined by a galaxy of CNN anchors and personalities like John King, Dana Bash, Kaitlan Collins, Anderson Cooper, Maggie Haberman, and many more for CNN’s live coverage of Trump’s inauguration to a second term.

After Trump delivered his official speech at the Capitol, he retired to The President’s Room to give unscripted remarks to a smaller group of prominent supporters — during which he went over all the subjects his advisers wanted to be omitted from the earlier speech.

Following that lengthy and wide-ranging series of rants, Tapper asked Dale to fact-check just the “biggest” lies.

Dale remarked that there were only a “smattering” of falsehoods in the inaugural address, but that Trump opened the floodgates for his fans:

JAKE TAPPER: Let’s bring in Daniel Dale. And Daniel Dale I know there’s a lot of familiar lies that we’re just told, but bring us up to speed on what you think the biggest ones were.

DANIEL DALE: There were a bunch, Jake. I thought it was interesting that the president gave a scripted inaugural address in which, honestly, there was not a ton to fact-check, I’d say a smattering of falsehoods.

And then immediately after, in this unscripted speech, he returned to his familiar lie-a-minute style.

So he said the 2020 election was totally rigged. We know that’s a lie.

He said his opponents tried to rig it this time. That’s more nonsense.

He said California Democrats tried to cheat and that he thinks he would have won the state this time if it were not rigged.

Well, it was a free and fair election in that state as well. He lost by more than 3 million votes.

He claimed he won Alabama this time by 48 points, more like between 30 and 31.

And then on immigration, he spoke of the jails of every country in the world being emptied into this country. He has never provided any evidence for his familiar claim that foreign countries are deliberately emptying prisons to send people here as migrants.

He boasted of building 571 miles of border wall. Official statistics show it was actually 458 miles.

And then he turned to January 6th. He spoke at length about he said the committee deleted all evidence, almost everything.

It simply did not. That did not happen, although there is a dispute about the preservation of some data and some video interviews that the committee conducted.

And he repeated this claim that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has admitted that she rejected a Trump offer of 10,000 National Guard troops on January 6th, 2021.

First of all, there is no basis for the claim Trump even made her such an offer. It wouldn’t even have made sense, given that he, the president, is the commander of the D.C. National Guard. The Speaker of the House has no no authority to deploy them or thwart a deployment.

And second of all, she never admitted that such an offer was made. She has steadfastly rejected that. She is on tape on January expression, expressing frustration with the security failure that day and saying that I take responsibility for not having them better prepared.

But that kind of vague assertion that I could have done more here is not an admission that she turned down any specific security offer. She has never made such an admission whatsoever, Jake.

Watch above via CNN’s live coverage of Trump’s inauguration.