CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale on Thursday said he could “go on and on” about the litany of falsehoods President Donald Trump delivered Wednesday in his White House address to the nation, and didn’t mince words on “News Central” when he was asked what he saw.
“I saw a whole bunch of false claims,” Dale told host Kate Bolduan.
Bolduan went on to play a clip from the speech in which Trump said inflation “was the worst in 48 years” when he took office in January, that he has slashed drug prices by up to 600%, claimed “everything else is falling rapidly” — and said “inflation is stopped.”
“A whole bunch of claims there,” Daniel said. “None of that is true. So, inflation is not stopped. The latest inflation rate we have for September was 3.0%. That was the fifth consecutive month that the year-over-year inflation rate had increased.”
He continued, “Now, it is possible that later this morning we will get a lower rate for November, but that won’t mean that prices have ceased rising, simply that they’re rising less rapidly. It’s also not true that President Trump inherited the worst inflation of all time.”
