‘No Evidence’: CNN’s Daniel Dale Shreds Trump Blaming Tim Walz For Attack on Water Systems

CNN’s Daniel Dale shredded President Donald Trump’s bid to blame Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for a cyberattack that temporarily took out dozen’s of water systems in the North Star state.

While officials initially indicated Iran may be at fault for the disturbing attacks, the president wasn’t buying it.

Speaking Friday at a Cabinet meeting at Camp David, the president said:

Today, I just want to mention that in Minnesota, there was a cyberattack. They blame it on Iran. I don’t think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they are grossly incompetent. A cyberattack of 30 water plants and I would blame it on Minnesota and the corrupt governor of Minnesota. They like to say it is Iran. Iran has bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota.

“So first of all, the president…said that he doesn’t think Iran was responsible for cyberattacks targeting water infrastructure, such as attacks in Minnesota. And he blames the, quote, ‘corrupt governor of Minnesota,’ Gov. Tim Walz,” Dale said.

“First of all, not only has he not presented evidence that Walz is corrupt, there is no evidence that Walz is responsible for anything to do with these attacks. The FBI said that there’ve been similar attacks in seven states. President Trump notably did not blame the governors of the six others.”

Dale continued:

In addition, President Trump repeated a number of previously debunked false claims about the economy and immigration. For example, he said that 25 million people came across the border under former President Joe Biden. That’s a gross overstatement.

There were fewer than 11 million so-called border encounters under Biden, including millions rapidly expelled from the country. He spoke of 11,888 murderers entering the country over Biden.

In fact, that’s a number that refers to people who entered the country over about four decades, including during President Trump’s first administration.

On the economy, he said, ‘We inherited a disaster, the worst inflation in 48 years.’ There was the worst inflation in about 40 years under Biden, but that was in June 2022, it was 9.1%.

By the time President Trump came back to office, about two-and-a-half years later, it was down to 3%. That’s better than it is now, it’s about 3.5%.

He also said inflation is dropping at the fastest rate in more than six years, that is true…but that was last month, and overwhelmingly because gas prices plummeted amid the then-ceasefire with Iran.

They’ve bounced back strongly, gotten higher this month. So that improvement may prove to be short lived.

Dale added, “He also said that more plants, more factories are being built today than ever before. The data does not show that. The data on manufacturing construction spending shows that the peak was actually under Biden in late 2024, and that it has steadily declined month after month under Trump. So the claim, “We’re experiencing an unprecedented boom during this Trump term,” just not borne out by the official figures.”

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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