CNN’s Daniel Dale Torpedoes Trump’s Attack On Biden — Rips Quoting ‘Usual Suspects’ Like Fox In Courthouse Rant

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale torpedoed former President Donald Trump over a false attack on President Joe Biden and a stack of supportive quotes from the “usual suspects” like Fox News from Trump’s latest courthouse rant.

Thursday was day three in the Stormy Daniels hush money-election interference trial being prosecuted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Trump emerged from court after the proceeding concluded with a full jury, and delivered a rant that included a stack of printed articles supporting him and blasting the case against him.

On Thursday’s edition of The Lead, anchor Jake Tapper tossed to Dale for a fact-check minutes after Trump’s rant concluded. Dale pushed back on a debunked attack and criticized the provenance of Trump’s citations in his own defense:

CNN’s Daniel Dale is CNN’s resident fact checker. He’s handy to have around at times like this.

Daniel, we just heard a little speech from Mr. Trump. What did you make of it? Did he say anything that was not true?

DANIEL DALE, CNN REPORTER: He did. I mean, it was mostly uncheckable, subjective opinion, but he did say a few things that weren’t quite right at very least. So he repeated his false conspiracy theory that essentially that Joe Biden is behind this case, which was brought by a locally elected district attorney. He said Biden is behind it. He has his top people working with the DAs office to make sure everything goes right.

There is no basis for that. That appears to be a reference to a former Justice Department official who went to work for the DA’s office. But there’s no sign that was anything but his own employment decision. In fact, this former official, Matthew Colangelo, had previously been a colleague of DA Bragg, so he rejoined his old colleague. He also claimed that Joe Biden is a crooked president should be on trial.

I think that’s mostly opinion, but I think it’s worth noting, Jake, that we’ve had this extended Republican House investigation impeachment inquiry, no evidence of impeachable offenses, high crimes and misdemeanors, let alone criminal offenses. And then I should note, as you did briefly, that, you know, he read this big pile of documents of articles citing headlines denouncing the case. I googled some of them as he was speaking, so he read one — talking about the whopping outrage in Trump’s indictment. Well, that’s harsh criticism. Where was it from?

A Fox News column. He mentioned the Daily Caller, another right wing publication. I googled another headline from the right wing National Review he mentioned. So there are some liberal scholars, legal experts, publications who have raised questions about this case. But that pile he showed was largely his usual friends, the usual suspects praising Trump, defending Trump in the conservative media.

TAPPER: All right, Daniel Dale, thanks so much.

Watch above via CNN’s The Lead.