CNN Fact-Checker Flags ‘Most Dangerous Part’ Of Trump’s News Conference | EUROtoday

There was “a lot of lying” from Donald Trump in the course of the press convention the president-elect gave at his Mar-a-Lago membership in Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday, stated CNN fact-checking reporter Daniel Dale.

But one remark stood out as significantly perilous, Dale advised colleague Dana Bash.

“I think the most dangerous part was an equivocation,” stated Dale. “It wasn’t really a claim, but he was asked whether he thought there was a link between vaccines and autism and he equivocated. He said, ‘Well, we have some brilliant people looking at this,’ and he talked about the increased prevalence of autism diagnoses.”

Trump stated that “right now you have some very brilliant people looking at it” and claimed that there was “something wrong” with a reported rise in autism charges and that “we’re going to find out about it.”

Watch Trump’s feedback from the 28-minute mark right here:

Dale, although, spelled out his situation with Trump’s feedback: “Look, there is no link between vaccines and autism. This notion has been discredited by study after study over decades.”

“The idea that there is some connection came from a thoroughly discredited, in fact scandalous, fraudulently-altered study in the 1990s that should just be ignored, dismissed, again, because it was fraudulent, and so the idea that, ‘Well, we’re just going to look into this,’ I think is dangerous to consider because the idea is simply wrong,” he continued.

Indeed, the concept that vaccines trigger autism has been repeatedly debunked.

Dale additionally known as out Trump’s deceptive claims on tariffs and the impact they’ve on Americans and the returning POTUS’ declare that there was zero inflation throughout his first time period.

Trump’s assertion “over and over” that there have been “like, no wars, period, in the world” throughout his first time period was additionally ”merely not true” and “a rewriting of history,” Dale added.

Watch Dale’s full evaluation right here: