WATCH: CNN’s Daniel Dale Gives Amazing Rapid-Fire Fact Check of Trump’s RNC Speech, Debunks 21 Claims in 3 Minutes

 

CNN fact-checking king Daniel Dale earned his crown Thursday night when he tore through 21 false claims from President Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention speech in just three minutes.

Dale began his fact-check by telling post-RNC coverage anchor Anderson Cooper that “this president is a serial liar, and he serially lied tonight. I counted, preliminarily, more than 20 false or misleading claims. I want to go through a whole bunch of them quickly because I think it’s all important.”

Then he was off to the races, literally, channeling Micromachines pitchman John Moschitta Jr. with a speedy and breathless sprint through the lies:

  1. Trump said Joe Biden is quote ‘talking about taking down the border wall, Biden a specifically explicitly rejected that idea. He just said he’ll stop further additional construction.
  2. Trump claimed as always that he is the one who passed the Veterans Choice law, Barack Obama signed that into law in 2014, Trump signed a 2018 law to modify it.
  3. Trump said ‘I have done more for the African American community than any president since Abraham Lincoln,’ That is ludicrous, Lyndon Johnson for one sign the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
  4. Trump again touted a quote ‘record 9 million job gain over the past 3 months.’ He didn’t mention as usual that that gain follows a record 22 million job loss over the previous 2 months.
  5. He said he’ll quote ‘continue to lower drug prices,’ they’ve increased during his presidency.
  6. He said they opened a Jerusalem embassy for less than $500,000. Early documents show it was at least 21 million.
  7. He claimed NATO member spending has increased for the first time in about 20 years. Spending in fact rose in 2015 and in 2016, before he took office.
  8. He said he will always and Republicans will always strongly protect people with preexisting conditions. That pledge has already been broken. He and they have repeatedly tried to weaken those protections in Obamacare.
  9. He claimed again that he banned travel from China and Europe. No, he imposed partial restrictions with many exemptions, tens of thousands of people continued traveling over.
  10. He boasted about the covid testing system and about his general response. Look, experts in your universally say the US was fatally slow and it’s response especially slow in setting up adequate testing.
  11. He said that he ended when he called the NAFTA nightmare and he signed a brand new US Mexico Canada agreement, the USMCA. That agreement preserves, maintains most of NAFTA.
  12. He boasted about building about 300 mi and border wall. What he didn’t say is that most of that is replacement barrier. As of August 7th according to official data, just 5 mi have been built where none existed before.
  13. He suggested that Joe Biden would confiscate guns, that’s baseless, Biden is running on a non-mandatory buyback of so-called assault weapons.
  14. He said Democrats want to defund the police. Biden again doesn’t, has rejected that.
  15. He said he has quote ‘very good information’ that China wants Biden to win because Biden’s soft on China or cheerleads for China. The US intelligence community says China wants Biden to win because it sees Trump as unpredictable.
  16. He said Biden vows to close down charter schools. Biden’s plan is skeptical on charters, but would not abolish them entirely.
  17. He denounced Biden for voting for the Iraq war. Biden did indeed vote for the Iraq war, but what Trump doesn’t mention is that he also supported that invasion.
  18. He said Democrats twice removed the word God from the pledge of allegiance at their convention, two individual caucus meetings outside the main prime time programming did leave it out, but it was uttered in every prime time event.
  19. Trump denounced so-called cancel culture as, like, an insidious left-wing thing. He, Donald J. Trump, has tried to get dozens of people and entities canceled, fired, boycotted, including literally last week. Goodyear.
  20. He said he imposed an order to give 10 years in prison to rioters. That’s a maximum discretionary sentence up to judges in existing laws, his order just asked the government to fully enforce it.
  21. And he said that Biden’s plan would eliminate America’s borders. No, just know. It’s wrong.

“Oh, that’s it?” Cooper joked, adding “I’m just kidding. Wow.”

“There’s more. How much time do you got, Anderson?” Dale replied.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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