CNN’s Dana Bash and Daniel Dale Torpedo Trump Attacks on Biden in Ballot Ban Victory Speech: ‘Absolutely No Evidence’

CNN anchor Dana Bash and fact-checker Daniel Dale torpedoed former President Donald Trump’s claims in a victory speech after the Supreme Court ballot ban decision, including his attacks on President Joe Biden.

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in Trump’s favor in Trump v. Anderson in a 9-0 decision that overturned the Colorado Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling banning Trump from the ballot on the grounds that he violated the 14th Amendment by engaging in insurrection on January 6.

Trump gave a victory speech from Mar-a-Lago, but CNN cut away when Trump was answering questions to refute falsehoods from that speech.

Bash and Dale began with Trump’s oft-repeated false assertion that President Biden has ordered all of the prosecutions against him:

DANA BASH: We have been hearing him first and foremost, talk about the fact that he is obviously very pleased about the Supreme Court decision to keep him on the ballot, or prevent Colorado from taking him off the ballot, and therefore other states as well, because of the actions that he was involved with in and around January 6th.

Then he veered into lots of other areas where we definitely have to fact check.

Daniel, I want to first just say the last thing he was talking about immigration, which of course has nothing to do with the Supreme Court decision today. He said a number of things that I hope that you get into. One of which was 20 million people he believes are in this country.

We don’t have any evidence to back that up.

And going on about the need for the president to use his executive, authorities to, quote unquote, “close the border.”.

There is an antiquated immigration system. Congress, in a bipartisan way in the U.S. Senate, tried to update it at least a little bit, and it was killed because, the president did not want to give Joe Biden that political win.

But let’s start by talking, if you will, Daniel, about, the allegations, with absolutely no evidence that he was making against President Biden, that he is behind all of the prosecutions that we are seeing both on a federal and state level.

There is absolutely no evidence to back that up. In fact, there are, there is a special counsel to to provide not one but two layers of distance between the president and these investigations. And that’s just on a federal level.

DANIEL DALE: That’s correct. So the claim is false even in terms of those federal cases. There’s no evidence that President Biden, you know, ordered or was behind these prosecutions.

But the claim is is is especially nonsensical when it comes to, you know, state and local cases. A civil lawsuit from the New York attorney general, a case is brought in Georgia and New York by local district attorneys.

There is zero evidence whatsoever that President Biden has somehow orchestrated these. So it’s just conjured out of thin air.

I think this, as many Trump speeches are, was kind of a where do you start kind of speech from a fact check perspective. You talked about immigration. He said, you know, I didn’t need to go to Congress. I just, he suggested that he just shut the border with his own executive authority.

In fact, he tried in 2019 to impose essentially an asylum ban on people crossing between ports of entry, from Mexico. And it was blocked by the courts. It was blocked by the Ninth Circuit. The Supreme Court declined to lift that block.

So the idea that he just did it so Biden can do it is not true.

He talked about a new, supposedly new category of crime called migrant crime. That, this is basically propaganda. There has always been some crime by immigrants. All of the data suggests that immigrants tend to commit crimes at lower rates than native born Americans. And I think, Dana, it’s worth noting that in 2023, preliminary data published by the FBI shows that the US is either at or around the lowest violent crime rate nationally since 1970. So this idea of a crime wave is nonsense.

And then I’ll just add quickly, he went through a bunch of his his old favorites. So I defeated ISIS in four months. In fact, the caliphate, so-called caliphate was liberated about two years into his tenure. He said he passed the largest tax cut in history. In fact, on a percentage basis, it’s nowhere close to the Ronald Reagan tax cut. He said there are people from insane asylums, all over the world coming across the border. He’s provided zero evidence for this, even when I’ve directly asked his campaign.

So false claim after false claim, as per usual.

DANA BASH: Daniel, thank you so much for being here. To to provide that kind of fact checking that only you can appreciate it.

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