CNN’s New Day Fact-Checks Trump’s Weekend Tweets: Relies on ‘Conspiracy Theories of Right Wing Media’
“President Trump doing what he likes to do most, attacking political opponents,” CNN’s Chris Cuomo opened a Monday segment on New Day. “This time an unusual choice: the Special Counsel Bob Mueller, attacking him by name, the president was, in a series of tweets filled with misleading claims and inaccuracies.”
New Day had on CNN political analyst David Gregory and legal analyst Carrie Cordero to fact check President Donald Trump’s weekend tweets taking aim at the investigation into his campaign’s Russia ties.
Cuomo started with the below tweet from the president, and Cordero pointed out that while Mueller himself is “historically a Republican nominee,” Gregory noted that one’s party affiliation shouldn’t taint their investigation.
Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans? Another Dem recently added…does anyone think this is fair? And yet, there is NO COLLUSION!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2018
Next up, this tweet from Trump:
The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2018
“There’s a lot to unpack on this one,” New Day co-host Erica Hill said.
“It’s just a fundamentally deceptive statement of how things work,” Cuomo said of the tweet, and the panel continued to fact-check the many claims made by Trump regarding the Russia probe and Fusion GPS dossier.
“The biggest problem with that tweet is it absolutely ignores the fact that the special counsel has charged 13 individuals and Russian entities with conspiracy to defraud the United States based on their efforts to effect the U.S. Election,” Cordero said.
Cuomo concluded by making a reference to the Seth Rich conspiracy theory, before noting that while Trump has “the most access to truth,” he “relies in these tweets on the musings and conspiracy theories of right wing media.”
Watch above, via CNN.
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