CNN fact-checking reporter Daniel Dale on Monday drew a sharp distinction between the “smattering” of untruths told by Donald Trump during the president’s second inauguration address and his return to his “familiar lie-a-minute style” in a later “unscripted” speech to prominent supporters.
“Honestly, there was not a ton to fact-check” about Trump’s official speech, Dale admitted to CNN colleague Jake Tapper.
However, Dale then exposed some of the “nonsense” that Trump had parroted in his subsequent speech ― such as his false claims that the 2020 election was rigged against him and that his opponents tried to rig the 2024 vote too.
Trump’s exaggerations of by how much he won the vote in Alabama, the number of miles of the southern border wall that he was responsible for building and his unproven allegations that “jails of every country in the world” are being emptied into the United States also came under intense scrutiny from Dale.
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