‘Zero Evidence’: CNN Immediately Fact Checks Trump’s Latest Rant Citing Fox News Legal Analysts

CNN reporter Daniel Dale immediately fact-checked former President Donald Trump’s claim Friday that his hush money criminal charges were brought forward because of President Joe Biden.

Trump made the remarks at the NYC courthouse where he faces criminal charges for allegedly falsifying business documents regarding hush money payments during the 2016 election season.

During his statement aired live on CNN, the Republican nominee claimed Biden was behind the prosecution. Trump faces four separate criminal indictments in four different jurisdictions, including for his retention of classified material and his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

While speaking to CNN anchor Jake Tapper following Trump’s remarks, Dale called out the former president for his “completely baseless, zero evidence” claim that the White House is influencing his criminal prosecution:

He said something that we fact checked, I think, five times in the last couple of weeks. He said, this is a Biden indictment. It’s a well-coordinated attack coming out of Washington, completely baseless, zero evidence whatsoever. This is an indictment approved by a grand jury of New York citizens. There is no basis for any claim that President Biden had a personal role in it. The prosecutor behind it is Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who’s a locally elected official, does not report to the federal government. Now, former President Trump has repeatedly cited the fact that a former DOJ official went over to work for Bragg. That’s Matthew Colangelo, who you’ve been talking about, zero evidence that President Biden had any role in that personal employment decision. Colangelo and Bragg were former colleagues in the state attorney general’s office.

I think it’s also worth noting, Jake, that that when, former President Trump says every legal expert thinks this case is a sham, and so on, the people he named today, he named Mark Levin, who, yes, talks about the law. He’s also a right wing radio host who’s a frequent defender of Donald Trump. Andy McCarthy, sometimes criticizes Trump, but is also a conservative commentator. Jonathan Turley, a professor who defended Trump in the impeachment context and other things. So, yes, they’re even liberal professors, anti-Trump professors and so on who have questioned this case. But those names are the regular, the usual suspects defending Donald Trump. And then I’ll note he talked about Michigan being destroyed. No more auto jobs. I think some of that was a prediction, but it’s worth noting there are more auto manufacturing jobs today, more people employed in Michigan in that industry today than there were when Donald Trump left office.

Levin, McCarthy, and Turley are all Fox News personalities.

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