CNN’s Brian Stelter: Newsrooms ‘Need to Keep Making Time to Cover Trump’s Misstatements’

Essay: Trump's errors & exaggerations might seem like "old news." But it's an ongoing story, new examples every day https://t.co/lF5InDoJc1

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 17, 2017

CNN’s Brian Stelter ended today’s Reliable Sources by saying that journalists can’t stop calling out President Trump on his misstatements, even if some of them sound a bit “nitpicky.”

He brought up Trump’s claim that “92 percent of the people agree on DACA” and comments he made about Hurricane Irma, and how this “credibility problem” may follow him to the UN for his speech this week.

Stelter said there’s a “pattern” of sloppiness from the White House that has a ripple effect around the world.

He played the clip of Trump’s Charlottesville presser talking about needing the facts first, and concluded, “Until that’s actually true, newsrooms need to keep fact-checking and need to keep making time to cover Trump’s misstatements.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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