Why is CNN fact checking Biden instead of Trump
Fact check: Biden’s false and misleading claims at high-stakes news conference
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/fact-check-joe-biden-nato-press-conference/index.html
Biden’s Putin-Zelensky gaffe moment
“I said, ‘No, I’m sorry, Zelensky.’ And then I added five other names.” <-> Biden’s last claim was false. He didn’t utter “five other names” after he corrected the Putin-Zelensky mix-up. In fact, after Biden corrected himself, Zelensky said he is “better” than Putin, Biden agreed, and then Zelensky delivered remarks as Biden stood silently beside him.
Biden’s travels
“The next debate, I’m not going to be traveling 15 time zones a week before. Anyway. That’s what it was about.” <-> Biden did not travel abroad “a week before” the June 27 CNN presidential debate in which he performed poorly. In fact, he returned to the US from Europe 12 days before that debate, on June 15.
What Trump said about NATO
“I think he said at one of his rallies, don’t hold me to this, recently, where, ‘NATO – I just learned about NATO,’ or something to that effect. <-> Trump did not say at a recent rally that “I just learned about NATO.” Rather, Trump said at the rally that he had not known what NATO was, “too much,” prior to attending his first alliance summit as president in 2017.
Hamas and the West Bank
“There is a growing dissatisfaction in, on the West Bank, from the Palestinians, about Hamas. Hamas is not popular now.” <-> The limited available public opinion polling suggests the claim that “Hamas is not popular now” in the West Bank is not true – and that Hamas’ popularity has increased there since its attack on Israel last October.
The war in Afghanistan
Biden spoke of how he had encouraged Israeli leaders not to “occupy anywhere” and instead target the Hamas terrorists who attacked their country, avoiding the mistakes the US made after it was attacked on September 11, 2001. Biden said, “You may recall, I still get criticized for it, but I was totally opposed to the occupation and trying to unite Afghanistan. <-> In the early years of the war, Biden, then a US senator for Delaware, was a vocal public supporter of the US having a sustained military presence in Afghanistan and engaging in extensive “nation-building” there – and he explicitly rejected the idea of a narrow military mission targeting terrorists.
All US media is out to get Biden it seems.
When CNN fact checks Trump it's on some nonsense like Vacation homes, wtf
Trump falsely claims Biden has homes in four vacation destinations and ‘more homes than I do’
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/10/politics/fact-check-trump-biden-vacation-homes/index.html
