Trump swiftly checked on latest 'flat out wrong' press conference claims
Several reporters brutally fact-checked Donald Trump following his press conference in Bedminster, New Jersey Golf Club Thursday — one week after the ex-president also gave a rambling press conference from his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The Guardian's Hugo Lowell pointed out one false statement Trump made Thursday was that he believes the US "Supreme Court has given him blanket immunity for the entire Jan. 6 case." The former president claimed, "And as you know, the Supreme Court ruled recently on immunity, and I'm immune from all of this stuff that they charged me with."
CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked CNN reporter and fact checker Daniel Dale to offer his analysis of the list of lies the MAGA hopeful spewed from the podium.
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"[Trump kept saying, 'They want to put me in prison. I did nothing wrong," Blitzer noted, asking Dale, "Does he forgot that he's been convicted of 34 felony charges?"
Dale replied, "I think I personally will stay away from that as a fact-checker — he's entitled to assert his innocence. But I made a whole list here of other claims that were just flat out wrong. This was just a whole bunch of nonsense. He claimed that nobody knows that Vice President Harris' last name is Harris? Like what are we even doing here? That was the caliber of the claim."
Trump also "said when his crowds in 2016 chanted 'lock her up' about Hillary Clinton, he said, 'Easy, easy.' In fact, on some occasions he said 'lock her up' himself," Dale noted. "On other occasions, he stood back and allowed those chance to continue. So he wasn't calming them down."
Furthermore, Trump claimed "you're allowed to rob a store" in the state of California.
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"You're not, no matter what the amount," Dale emphasized, adding that Trump "said he won his civil fraud case, but then a lower court judge ignored an appeals court decision and still penalized him for a large amount of money. He never won that case. He's grossly mischaracterizing what the appeals court actually said."
Lastly, Dale noted Trump "said he did much better in Pennsylvania in the 2020 election than he did in 2016 when he won the state. No, he did worse. He lost it fair and square in 2020. And on that same note, he spoke vaguely of mystery votes in 2020 he claimed were not counted. Votes in addition to his actual vote totals — those votes simply did not exist. His vote total was his vote total. He lost the election fair and square."
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