'Befuddled' Congo government hits back at Trump attack: 'Everything he said isn't true'

Tireless CNN fact checker Daniel Dale on Wednesday slapped down claims made by former President Donald Trump that the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been shipping its violent criminals to the United States.

During a fact check of Trump's latest inflammatory claims about immigrants, Dale was asked by host Sara Sidner about Trump's claim this week that "they're emptying out their jails in the Congo and they're delivering them to the border and they're saying, 'Congratulations, this is America.'"

"Is this true?" asked an incredulous Sidner.

"It's not," replied Dale. "This is one of those Trump claims that grows bigger and more dramatic with each telling. So it started with, 'Some bad people at the Congo are arriving at the border,' which you can't really fact check. Then it was, 'The Congo is emptying its prisons.' Then it was now the Congo is delivering people to the border."

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Dale went on to say that "there is no evidence for any" of these claims and he said he even reached out to representatives from the Congolese government for comment.

"Both of them were just befuddled," he said. "A spokesperson for the DRC said, 'Everything he is saying isn't true.' The ambassador to the Republic of Congo said, 'There is no truth or any sign nor a single fact supporting such a claim or statement.'"

Dale also reached out to the Trump campaign and said that "they have not been able to provide a single shred" of proof to back up Trump's claims.

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