Former President Donald Trump “made at least 33 false claims” compared to “at least one false claim” from Democratic rival Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s presidential debate, according to CNN’s fact-checking reporter Daniel Dale.
“What stood out was that this was a staggeringly dishonest debate performance from former President Trump. Just lie after lie on subject after subject,” said Dale.
CNN Fact Check of the debate: This was a staggeringly dishonest debate performance from former President Trump. Just lie after lie on subject after subject by my preliminary count, he made at least 33 false claims pic.twitter.com/5ZhJVBlqub
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“No major presidential candidate before Donald Trump has ever lied with this kind of frequency,” Dale noted. “A remarkably large chunk of what he said tonight was just not true, and this wasn’t like little exaggeration, political spin. A lot of his false claims were untethered to reality.”
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Dale cited Trump’s comments on abortion, crime figures, healthcare and the “odious” baseless rumor about migrants eating pets in Ohio as being the subject of just some of the Republican nominee’s untruths.
“Frankly, I don’t have enough time here to run through each specific Trump false claim,” he said, pointing viewers to his team’s online fact check of the debate.
Harris’ false claim was “about the economic situation that the Biden-Harris administration was left by Trump” that wasn’t as bad as she suggested, said Dale. She “added at least a few misleading claims and a few more that lack key context,” said Dale, but it was incomparable to Trump’s lies.
On X, formerly Twitter, Dale wrote: “Trump has been staggeringly dishonest and Harris has been overwhelmingly (though not entirely) factual.”
Trump has been staggeringly dishonest and Harris has been overwhelmingly (though not entirely) factual.
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