CNN senior reporter Daniel Dale has fact-checked former President Donald Trump’s inflammatory immigration rhetoric so often, debunking the same false claims so many times, he could do it in his sleep, he insisted on Friday.
Trump “continues to paint a very dark picture,” said Marquardt, bringing up Trump’s recent “extraordinary comments” calling the U.S. a “garbage can” and then on Friday saying we were a “dumping ground” for immigrants.
“He’s saying the same false stuff about immigration over and over, like, we could do this in our sleep at this point,” said Dale before launching into his now-familiar fact check:
He keeps telling this story about “The Congo.” First, it started with “some bad people from the Congo arriving at the border” — tough to fact check. Then it was “The Congo is emptying prisons to somehow allow criminals to come here as migrants.” Now, it’s “The Congo actually driving people to the border, taking them here.”
There is no evidence for any of this. I’ve repeatedly asked the Trump campaign, they cannot provide any. I’ve spoken to representatives of the governments of both the Democratic Republic of Congo, the neighboring Republic of Congo; they have no idea what he’s talking about.
This is nonsense with obvious racial undertones. He keeps saying that 21 million migrants have crossed the border under Biden and Harris. That is many millions too high; it’s about 10 million so-called border encounters — even if you add in the estimated 2 million so-called “got-aways,” people who evaded the Border Patrol, he’s still wildly exaggerating. So it’s the same claims over and over. They continue to be wrong.
R&I – TP
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