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CNN Fact-Checks Trump’s Oval Office Claims in Real Time

The on-air rebuttal contrasted the president’s statements with figures on the White House website plus recent Washington Post crime reports.

Overview

  • CNN’s Daniel Dale said he counted at least five false or exaggerated statements moments after the president spoke during an Oval Office session with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
  • Trump’s claim of securing more than $17 trillion in U.S. investment was challenged with the White House site’s lower $8.8 trillion figure, which Dale described as a wild exaggeration.
  • The assertion that nobody is being shot in Washington, D.C. was disputed with reporting that three people were found fatally shot over three days, even as overall crime has declined.
  • The claim that strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats saved at least 100,000 lives was labeled absurd given that U.S. overdose deaths last year were well under 100,000.
  • Trump’s statement that the U.S. could not sell agriculture to the EU before his deal was contradicted by data showing more than $12 billion in sales, as CNN anchored its critique in what one reporter called an invented reality.