Trump's rally rant ranged from 'uncheckable' to 'flat-out false': CNN fact-checker

Former President Donald Trump spoke to a small group in North Carolina on Tuesday alongside far-right gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, in a return to the campaign trail after a period of relative inactivity — but the claims he made at that rally are classic Trumpian falsehoods, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale told anchor Phil Mattingly.

"There was definitely policy," said Mattingly. "There was also stuff about laughing. What stood out to you, Daniel?"

"There are a bunch of claims that I think a lot of people would question, but that are subjective or uncheckable," said Dale. "He claimed California, where a whole lot of people happily live, is 'unlivable.' He claimed that we're a banana republic, third-world country; I think a lot of people would dispute that."

Many of his other assertions, Dale continued, are "flat-out false."

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"He again said that Kamala Harris was made the 'border czar,' put by President Biden in charge of the border. That didn't happen," said Dale. "In reality, she was given a much more limited immigration-related assignment tasked with dealing with the so-called root causes of migration in certain Central American countries. He repeated his claim that she's allowed 20 million people into the country ... the total number of border so-called encounters under Biden and Harris is 10 million, and far from all of those people were actually allowed in; that includes the people who are expelled from the country upon arriving at the border. He boasted of how good African-American poverty, the poverty level, was during his administration. He didn't mention, it's actually fallen to a lower level, a new record, beating the Trump-era record, under Biden and Harris."

Additionally, he continued, "he called switching candidates in the Democratic primary, a 'minor form of cheating.' It's not a form of cheating at all. It's allowed completely within the law and the rules. And he spoke of how the Inflation Reduction Act, he said 'gave us record inflation.' The U.S. has never had record inflation under Biden and Harris, even the Biden/Harris peak of 9.1 percent was about a 40-year high, nowhere near the all-time high of about 23.7 percent. And that 9.1 percent number has come way down since then, it's now 2.9 percent."

"And finally, he spoke of so-called 'very good polls' for him coming out right now and claimed were leading," Dale added. "He might be seeing private numbers we're not seeing, but in the national averages of public polling, he is not leading. He's now trailing."

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