‘And It’s Only Tuesday’: CNN’s Daniel Dale Calls Out Trump On 30 Wisconsin Rally Falsehoods

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale called out 30 false claims made by former President Donald Trump during his campaign rally in Wisconsin in a segment rush that left anchor Abby Phillip joking: “And it’s only Tuesday.”

Trump’s campaign rally on Tuesday night was held in Racine, Wisconsin, outside the main population centre Milwaukee – where the Republican National Convention will take place in July.

It was Milwaukee that Trump had reportedly branded “a horrible city” just last week but, in his bid to win voters in the key swing state, the former president blasted the reports as “lies” peddled by “the Democrats” and “radical-left lunatics.”

“I love Milwaukee,” he declared, in contrary.

On Tuesday’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip, the host handed over to Dale, who coincidentally listed a falsehood for every one of the 30-miles between the rally location on Lake Michigan and the city of Milwaukee itself.

PHILLIP: CNN’s Daniel is here with 30 false statements that Trump made in Wisconsin, Daniel, take it away.

DALE: He said there was world peace in 2020. There was very much not. He said he won Wisconsin in 2020. He lost. He said the Democrats rigged the 2020 election – a lie. He said people around President Biden cheat on elections. No. He said people’s votes tend to disappear. They simply do not. He said 107,000 people attended his recent rally in New Jersey. That’s at least tens of thousands too high. He said he saved Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020 during rioting when the Democratic governor wouldn’t act to intervene. In fact, that governor deployed the National Guard before Trump told him to.

Trump said cocaine was found at the White House about a month ago – that was actually about 11 months ago. He said it was hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine. It was a little bag, maybe generously in the hundreds of dollars worth. He said Biden orchestrated his New York criminal trial, zero evidence of that. He said Biden was also behind all of his cases, including civil trials, baseless again. He said Biden wandered off of the G7 and didn’t know where he was. No, Biden was briefly chatting with a skydiver who had landed near the group.

He said he was indicted more than infamous [gangster] Al Capone. No, Al Capone had more indictments than him. He said he was in Washington the other day for one of his trials. He was actually there for meetings with congressional Republicans. He said Nancy Pelosi turned down his offer of 10,000 soldiers on January 6. She never got such an offer and would not have had the power to reject it even if she did. He said the January 6 committee deleted all records, just did not happen.

He said he’s the only president who didn’t start a war. Jimmy Carter didn’t start any wars. He said he finished the war in Syria. No. And got us soldiers out. He actually left hundreds of troops there. He said Syria and Turkey had been fighting over their border for quote 2000 years. That border, Abby, is less than a century old. He said insane asylums are being emptied by foreign countries to let people come to the US as migrants. His own campaign cannot substantiate this claim. He also said prisoners are coming in from jails in the Congo over the border. His campaign can substantiate that either. He said President Obama cannot deport criminals to Latin American countries. Obama in fact could. He said Venezuela’s crime is down 72% because of immigration to the US. Venezuela’s violent deaths are actually down 25%, and that’s for a variety of reasons. He said 17 or 18 million people have now entered illegally over the border – experts say that’s many millions too high.

He said Biden’s plans would quadruple your taxes: total fiction. He said canceling the Keystone XL pipeline costs 48,000 jobs. That is wildly inflated. He said total inflation under President Biden is 40 or 50% is actually 19%. He said before he took office, there was a $500 billion trade deficit with China. It has never been that high. And in fact, the record was set under Trump in 2018. He said no previous president has taken even $0.10 in tariff money from China. It is Americans who pay those tariffs and the US has actually had such tariffs on China since the 1700s. And finally, he said, we’re in the worst crime wave in modern history – crime has actually plummeted in 2023 and so far in 2024.

PHILLIP: It’s only Tuesday. Daniel Dale, thank you very much.

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