During his congressional address on March 4th, President Donald Trump stated that millions of dollars had been spent on studies in which transgenic mice were given transgender (gender-affirming) hormone therapy to examine the health effects of these treatments. Trump referred to this as "making transgender mice." Several media outlets, including NBC, Rolling Stone, CNN, MSNBC, and host Rachel Maddow, quickly claimed this statement was false. To their credit, CNN later retracted its original claim and revised its conclusion to "n…
In an article published by CNN titled "Fact-checking Trump’s ‘Meet the Press’ interview", CNN makes multiple false claims. In an interview on 'Meet the Press' with host Kristen Welker, Trump answered questions with answers that CNN's Daniel Dale and Jack Forrest falsely claimed were "false". Biden directed Justice Department to indict Trump CNN could have gotten this one right had they left it at " This claim is not supported by any evidence ", but they pressed forward resulting in a false claim. Thi…
In an article titled "Fact check: Debunking Trump’s blizzard of dishonesty about his federal indictment" , CNN and Daniel Dale published a flurry of misleading, dishonest, and disingenuous claims about Trump's comments regarding his indictment. Trumps/NARA Dealings Trump said he was working with NARA just as every resident has done. CNN claimed this is a lie. These claims, too, are false in one way and highly misleading in another. It’s not true that Trump was negotiating “just as every other president has done”; no other ex-p…
In a recent article ¹ titled "Fact check: Trump falsely claims Presidential Records Act requires prolonged ‘talk, talk, talk’ over returning documents" CNN falsely claims Trump made a false claim. The Claims CNN claims that president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to inaccurately described the Presidential Records Act stating that Trump said the following n Fox News. “It says you are going to discuss the documents,” Trump said. “You discuss everything – not only docu– everything – about what’s going in NAR…
In an article titled "Fact-Checking Trump’s Speech at CPAC" The New York Times (NYT) made several false claims regarding a CPAC speech delivered by former President Donald Trump on March 4th. Many of the claims mimic the CNN article we checked earlier today. NATO Payments NYT stated that Trump was making a false claim when he metaphorically stated some countries were delinquent and not paying their bills. He misleadingly characterized members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as “delinquent” on payments. At the end of the…
CNN published a fact check titled " Fact check: Trump delivers wildly dishonest speech at CPAC" which went so far as to call the former Presidents CPAC speech a "doozy" and one of his "most dishonest speeches" . Trump delivered the speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday, March 4tth, which was subsequently met with the accusations of falsehoods by CNN. The National Guard and Minnesota CNN claims that Trump is being "wildly dishonest" in stating "We saved Min…
Snopes published a fact check titled "Did Trump Say Election Fraud Allows for 'Termination' of US Constitution?" to which they said was accurate, however, misleadingly. Others such as The Washington Post, New York Times, Politico, MSNBC, Fox News, and of course, CNN, made more direct claims that Donald Trump "called for the termination of the U.S. Constitution". The only problem with these claims is that they are inaccurate. Snopes Misleading Claim In Snopes "context" section, it states: In a Truth Social …