Anderson Cooper flattens Don Jr. claim that boys should be more fearful than girls using actual facts

CNN's Anderson Cooper spent the opener of his show schooling Donald Trump Jr. with actual facts instead of conjecture.

"I've got boys, and I've got girls. And when I see what's going on right now, it's scary," Trump Jr. said to the Daily Mail.

The comment came after President Donald Trump said that it was a "very scary time for young men in America."

"Look, we know where the president stands on this," Cooper explained. "He often sides with the accused man, not the women who come forward to tell their stories of abuse. Roy Moore, Bill O'Reilly, and of course himself. You might argue that the president is just making a measured argument for due process, an argument against a rush to judgment for anyone accused, and that's certainly a fair argument to make, an important one. But remember, this is the same person who bought full-page ads calling for the death penalty for five juveniles accused of attacking and raping a jogger in Central Park."

Those boys were exonerated years later after they served most of their lives in prison.

"Someone else confessed. Mr. Trump still hasn't apologized for that or admitted he was wrong," Cooper noted. "When it's him or his political allies being accused, the president's playbook is to deny, to deny, and then deny."

What Trump said, however, Cooper found remarkable. According to Trump and his son, men are the real victims with "women lurking in every dark alley and around every corner."

Cooper said that research from the National Sexual Violence Research Center proves the opposite.

"False allegations of sexual assaults are somewhere between 2 and 10 percent," Cooper explained. "Yes, they happen, but they're not the norm. Not to mention sexual assault is widely underreported, out of every 1,000 sexual assaults, only 310 are reported to the police, according to the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization, RAIN."

Watch Cooper's video below: