CNN senior reporter Daniel Dale had an abundant source of content Tuesday after President Donald Trump delivered a speech to senior military officials who were gathered in Quantico, Virginia, with the network’s resident fact checker commenting that one of the president’s “lies” was so egregious it only took him “about five seconds to find on Google” and debunk it.
Among the wide-ranging topics mentioned in Trump’s speech were nuclear weapons, his preference for gold stationery and decor, stairs, using U.S. cities as “training grounds for our military” — and several swipes at his predecessor, President Joe Biden.
Trump “repeatedly lied” to the generals and admirals gathered for his speech, wrote Dale in a tweet that summarized the president’s “numerous false claims” and linked to his article at CNN.com listing them out.
Dale joined CNN co-anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown on The Situation Room to sort through Trump’s comments. Brown welcomed Dale to the show and asked him to share “what stood out to you.”
“There were just so many false claims,” Dale replied, which is something he said he says that “after essentially every speech” from Trump, “but I think this is notable because of the audience.”
Trump “was telling a lot of lies, saying a lot of other inaccurate things,” Dale continued, and cued up a clip of Trump claiming Biden had “never” said that the U.S. has “the strongest military.”
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