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CNN fact checker reveals the truth behind Trump’s bizarre claim about a fake award

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump lies all the time. But some of those lies are stranger than others.

One falsehood that has been haunting CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale is Trump’s repeated claim, first made right before the 2016 election, that he won Michigan’s “Man of the Year” award five years go. The problem is that there’s no record of such an award or of him winning it.

Trump made the claim again Thursday night, reigniting the search for the truth. Neither Trump’s campaign nor White House has ever offered an explanation for his baseless assertion.

View the complete August 16 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet logo here.

CNN delivers brutal fact-check after Trump rattles off a number of ‘baseless’ claims during freewheeling press conference

AlterNet logoDuring a Tuesday morning press conference, President Donald Trump not only defended his attack on Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (who chairs the House Oversight Committee) and the city of Baltimore — he also made some misleading statements on tariffs and the Washington Post. And it didn’t take CNN reporters Jim Sciutto and Poppy Harlow long to fact-check Trump’s bizarre claims.

Sciutto explained why Trump’s statements about U.S. tariffs on China are misleading, telling Harlow, “He said that China is paying, that the U.S. is getting billions and billions of dollars in tariffs from China. Of course, the fact is that U.S. importers and consumers pay for tariffs.”

Sciutto went on to say Trump’s claim that Baltimore’s city government, with Cummings’ help, has “wasted billions of dollars” has no basis in fact. Trump, Sciutto noted, made “quite a charge against Rep. Elijah Cummings, saying that Baltimore has taken — stolen, he seems to be saying, or wasted billions of dollar.”

View the complete July 30 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.