'A woman was murdered there': CNN fact-checker grills Trump's 'peanut' protest comparison

Another day in the books for Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, and it ended with the former president speaking to reporters in the corridor talking about how "breathtaking" Thursday was and then tangentially editorializing on some current events — from the price of gas and pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses to SCOTUS and the economy.

Then CNN fact checked him straightaway.

"We're having protests all over," Trump told reporters, without taking questions. "Biden was talking about Charlottesville — Charlottesville was a little peanut and was nothing compared to the hate, wasn't the kind of hate that you have here."

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CNN's Daniel Dale made clear that Trump's memory left out how the clashing of white nationalists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville back in 2017 that spilled out of control from the "Unite the Right" rally at a park that had once been named after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee led to a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi fatally plowing into 32-year-old paralegal and civil rights activist, Heather Heyer, and injuring 35 others.

"Former President Trump said the Charlottesville protests in 2017 were 'a little peanut' compared to what we're seeing now in college campuses pro-Palestinian protesters," he said on "The Lead." "I guess that's a matter of opinion on which I can't render a definitive fact check.

"But let's remember the fact that a woman, a counter protester was murdered there in Charlottesville. We've had no reports of anything like that happening on any college campus today, and he's pro-Palestinian protests."

Dale questioned Trump's claim that the hate in Charlottesville is nothing like he's seeing in today's protests.

"He said hate in Charlottesville paled in comparison to the hate we're seeing — there again, a matter of opinion, but let's remember, there was neo-Nazi and other white Nationalist hate in Charlottesville."

Trump suggested President Joe Biden was losing control of the economy with rising gas prices.

Dale mentioned that Trump made the claim that gas costs $7.50 per gallon in California and it didn't square with his finding based on AAA, which is $5.40. But he did admit in fairness there are outliers such as "deserted stations" in the Golden State that sometimes far exceed the average.

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