CNN Fact-Checker Drops A Stunning 78 Examples Exposing Trump’s Latest Lie | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump on Sunday made quite a few false claims about Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and besieged chief Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with one allegation so simply disproven that CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale couldn’t assist however debunk it.

“Trump’s claim is not even close to accurate,” Dale wrote late Monday night time on CNN.com.

The Trump administration has given Ukraine till Thursday to approve its proposal to finish the battle with Russia or lose U.S. navy assist, with Trump claiming on social media that “UKRAINE ‘LEADERSHIP’ HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS.”

Dale famous in his in depth column Monday that Zelenskyy has accomplished so quite a few instances since Russia launched its invasion in 2022, citing a whopping 78 examples spanning from January of that yr to this previous Sunday — after Trump criticized Zelenskyy as ungrateful.

“Zelensky has said it on social media, sometimes tagging Trump’s account,” wrote Dale. “He has said it to Trump face-to-face. He has said it to Trump appointees and members of Congress. He has said it in Ukraine, in the US, and in other countries.”

He continued, “In fact, Zelensky said it last week.”

Trump on Sunday referred to as the invasion “The War between Russia and Ukraine,” arguing it “would have NEVER HAPPENED” if the 2020 election wasn’t “RIGGED & STOLEN” by former President Joe Biden or, as he referred to as it, “the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration.”

Zelenskyy gave the impression to be responding to that Truth Social publish when he printed a video thanking “each and every person” who helps Ukraine, together with “the president of the United States,” and “personally” thanked Trump for “saving Ukrainian lives” in one other publish.

Zelenskyy has accomplished so repeatedly through the years, as Dale enumerated Monday.

“We are very grateful to President Trump, to the United States, to the entire American people,” Zelenskyy advised U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll final week in Kyiv, in line with a abstract of the assembly printed by the Ukrainian president’s workplace.

“I also extend my deep gratitude to the American companies, the Department of Energy, and president of the United States Donald Trump,” he stated Nov. 16 in Greece, including: “We are grateful to the people of the United States and to the president once again.”

The fact-checker famous Monday in his column that Trump solely criticized the Ukrainian chief Sunday after he “pushed back” towards the administration’s proposal to finish the conflict, which comes with “many proposed concessions to Russia” — together with swaths of land.

“And it echoed the contentious February meeting with Zelensky in which Trump told the Ukrainian president, ‘You gotta be more thankful,’” wrote Dale. “The day of that meeting, CNN published a list of examples of Zelensky thanking … the United States.”

He then famous that this listing, printed in full Monday on the finish of the column, has been up to date with 44 extra examples since February — when Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Zelenskyy throughout a hostile White House assembly televised for the world.

“This list is not intended to be comprehensive,” wrote Dale. “Notably, we did not review most of the remarks Zelensky has made in Ukrainian during the war, and we, of course, do not know what he said in most of his closed-door conversations.”

Read the complete listing right here on CNN.