President Joe Biden's allies were hoping that his Thursday night, June 27 debate with Donald Trump would inflict major damage on the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee. But after the debate, hosted by CNN in Atlanta, a recurring theme in countless media reports was that while Trump lied repeatedly, Biden — who had lost his voice, sounding weak and hoarse — stumbled badly.
On X, formerly Twitter, CNN's Daniel Dale gave a comprehensive fact-check, laying out how many times the presidential candidates lied. Dale's tally: Trump lied 30 times, while Biden lied only nine.
Occupy Democrats' Grant Stern, however, tweeted, "Final tally: that fact check might get 30,000 reads and the debate got millions of views, many from average viewers just running in who won’t see those fact checks and don't follow the news."
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On CNN, Dale called out Trump's distortions on abortion, explaining, "(Trump) said some Democratic states allow people to execute babies after birth — an egregious lie. That is illegal in every state. He said everybody, even Democrats, wanted Roe v. Wade overturned. Roe was supported by two-thirds of Americans, more Democrats."
Dale continued, "He said every legal scholar wanted Roe overturned, abortion returned to the states. Legal scholars have told me directly that was not true."
The CNN fact-checker also pointed out that Trump claimed "Biden wants to quadruple people's taxes — pure fiction."
Dale noted that Trump said that "the U.S. has provided way more aid to Ukraine than Europe had — it's actually the opposite."
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Dale's fact-check, however, didn't occur during the debate, but was part of CNN's post-debate analysis. And journalist Aaron Rupar slammed Dale's fact-check as too little too late.
Rupar tweeted, "Fact-checking Trump two hours after a debate on the same network in which he was allowed to lie with impunity is worse than nothing."
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