CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Brutally Roasts Trump For Lying All The Time In Fact-Check Intro

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins casually but thoroughly roasted former President Donald Trump as a chronic liar while she introduced a fact-check of Trump’s border speech.

President Joe Biden was in Brownsville, Texas on Thursday at the same time Trump conducted several events in Eagle Pass, Texas — including a speech in which he levelled many false attacks.

On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead, Collins cut away from Trump’s speech to introduce Daniel Dale, but prefaced the segment by noting that CNN always has to do this because of the many “lies” that Trump tells:

COLLINS: And you have been listening to former President Donald Trump. He is in Eagle Pass today and, of course, he is there at the time that President Biden is also on the ground.

We are waiting to hear from President Biden. We’re going to take those remarks live.

But as we do after every Trump’s speech, it seems we have to have a series of fact checks because at multiple times and just those brief remarks there, he made several lies. He told several lies about the border. Also misrepresented his own past on the border in what he did while he was in office.

CNN’s Daniel Dale is here, our resident fact check reporter. Daniel, obviously, we’ve been listening to this, just writing down

several of the things that he said that weren’t true in there. First off is the one that he has claimed repeatedly that I know you personally tried to fact check, which is that there are people from jails and mental institutions that are being emptied, and those people are coming across the border, something that the Trump campaign has never been able to provide any evidence of, yet he still repeats it almost every time he talks about the border.

DANIEL DALE, CNN REPORTER: He does, Kaitlan. I asked the Trump campaign, what is the evidence that unnamed foreign leaders are emptying out their institutions, their jails, sending people here as migrants, they couldn’t come up with anything.

I also took some notes. He said that we see columns of fighting age men, they look like warriors. There are zero basis, Kaitlan, for this idea that unnamed foreign countries are surreptitiously using migrants to assemble some sort of anti-U.S. fighting force.

You hear this on the far right. Even if you think that many migrants are economic migrants rather than true asylum claimants, that’s not an army. It’s just nonsense.

He talked about a supposed new form of crime under President Biden. He says, new migrant — you know, it’s migrant crime. Look, some undocumented people have committed crimes under every president, under President Trump. Again, under President Biden, we have had some high- profile recent tragic cases, but every piece of data, all goods studies show that undocumented people, like other immigrants, commit crimes at lower rates than native born Americans.

He told the story that he’s told before well, Kaitlan, about people arriving speaking languages that no ones ever heard. He said in a previous, recent speech, we didn’t even have one translator who could understand this language. This, I’ve looked into this, seems to be just conjured out of thin air. It’s nonsense.

He also said that maybe these people are being led in because they presumably — the Biden administration is looking for votes. I think you can make a convoluted case that, you know, one day, people could be turned in — naturalized, turning to citizens, citizens then could vote.

But I think it’s important to remind people that undocumented people like other non-citizens cannot vote at present.

And then finally, former President Trump also repeated his frequent claim that he built 571 miles of wall. We have official figures on that. It is 458 miles, much of which its important to note is replacement barrier, replacing barriers that previously existed, not covering parts of the border that had no barriers in the past.

COLLINS: None of which Mexico also paid for, which was another pledge of his and something that he brings up.

The other thing he seemed to suggest was that 10 million people are illegally going they come in the country in the next nine months, that something that just has zero basis whatsoever.

DALE: Yeah. I mean, as fact check man, I tried to stay away from fact-checking predictions because theoretically anything could happen. But that number certainly would far exceed the pace we’ve seen even while seeing record levels under President Biden.

COLLINS: Daniel Dale, thank you as always for being on standby to fact check that.

Watch above via CNN’s The Lead.