'Did not happen!' CNN fact-checker flags several Trump falsities after Fox News town hall
A CNN fact-checker flagged several claims from former President Donald Trump after his town hall Wednesday night with Fox News host Sean Hannity in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Speaking with CNN anchor Abby Phillip, Daniel Dale first addressed Trump's claim about Iran and terrorism.
"Iran was broke. They didn't have the money for Hamas and for Hezbollah, they didn't have the money for anybody," he said.
A second clip showed Trump claiming the U.S. went four years "without any blow-ups."
"We had no radical Islamic terror," he said — twice.
Dale looked at the two claims and bluntly labeled them "false."
"This claim that Iran did not have money for Hamas, Hezbollah and other terror groups during his presidency — that's wrong, as his own administration acknowledged in 2020."
Dale noted that Iran continued to fund terror groups throughout Trump's presidency, though experts say it reduced funding when the Trump administration hit the country with sanctions.
The CNN fact-checker then smacked down Trump's second claim that the U.S. saw no radical Islamic terrorist attacks under Trump.
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"There were terror attacks by Islamic extremists under Trump," he said, including one that Trump repeatedly "lamented" during his presidency. In that case, noted Dale, eight people were killed in a highway attack in New York that federal authorities said was carried out in support of ISIS.
In 2019, an extremist member of the Saudi military attacked a U.S. military facility and killed three U.S. Navy sailors. In that incident, federal authorities said the attacker was a Jihadist and a longtime associate of an Al-Qaeda group.
Phillip and Dale shook their heads after the network played a clip of Trump whining that Vice President Kamala Harris must've been fed questions ahead of time for her first sit-down interview.
"Nobody wants to cover it," railed Trump.
"Nobody wants to cover it," said Dale, "Because it did not happen. Vice President Harris did not have notes during her interview with Dana Bash. You can look at images — photo, video — from that interview if you're skeptical. There was nothing on the table right in front of her. All that's there are Dana Bash's notes."
He stressed Harris was not given questions ahead of time.
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