CNN Fact-Checker Shreds Trump Over ‘Long-Debunked Lies’ At Latest Press Conference | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump on Monday delivered a slew of lies throughout an hour-and-a-half-long White House press convention about his escalating conflict on Iran, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale mentioned.

“President Trump uttered numerous false claims, including long-debunked lies, at his press conference today – in addition to several very-much-uncorroborated claims, like the one about how every living former president is saying ‘to their friends’ that the US should’ve started this war long ago,” Dale wrote Monday on X.

Trump claimed that Iran’s efforts to develop a nuclear weapon “should have been handled by seven presidents” of the previous — which would come with Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.

He then claimed “every one of them” is now admitting to their mates that “we should have done this.” Reagan and H.W. Bush are lifeless, and Trump himself attended the funeral of H.W. Bush.

Trump accurately mentioned Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed on his orders in 2020, however added, “I did one other, but this one was not picked up: Osama bin Laden. If you read my book, I said, ‘You got to take him out,’ one year before the World Trade Center came down.”

Dale expounded on his preliminary X put up with a lengthier evaluation on the CNN web site.

He famous Trump’s 2000 ebook, “The America We Deserve,” featured just one point out of the terrorist and didn’t embrace “any advice about how to deal with” or what to really “do” about him. Bin Laden was killed in a 2011 U.S. army operation in the course of the Obama administration.

Trump made quite a few different false claims Monday about his ongoing conflict and previous conflicts.

Despite acknowledging to reporters that Iran downed an F-15 fighter jet final week and Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff confirming additionally they shot down an A-10 plane, Trump falsely claimed, “The only planes, really, that we lost were — friendly fire, they call it.”

“Trump repeated his familiar false claim that ‘I’ve ended eight wars,’” Dale continued. “As we’ve repeatedly noted, his list includes two situations that were never actually wars (a diplomatic dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia and a mystery situation between Serbia and Kosovo) and at least one war that didn’t actually end.”

Dale famous that the latter issues an ongoing battle between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Trump spent years touting his supposed peace-making successes and campaigning for a Nobel Peace Prize earlier than final 12 months’s winner merely gave it to him.

Read Dale’s full evaluation on CNN.