‘Remarkable!’ CNN Fact-Checker Daniel Dale Stuns Kaitlan Collins With ‘Split-Screen’ Biden-Trump Comparison

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale stunned anchor Kaitlan Collins with his assessment of a “split-screen” moment between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump as he fact-checked them.

President Biden was in Brownsville, Texas on Thursday at the same time Trump conducted several events in Eagle Pass, Texas — including a speech in which he leveled many false attacks.

On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead, Collins cut away from Trump’s speech to introduce Dale, but prefaced the segment by noting that CNN always has to do this because of the many “lies” that Trump tells — and Dale called out a bunch of new ones.

But after President Biden’s remarks, Collins tossed to Dale for an evaluation of that speech — and called Dale’s assessment of the two speeches “remarkable”:

COLLINS: Daniel Dale is also still here with me.

And, Daniel, you know, we’re just talking about former President Trump’s remarks on the border. When you listen to what he says and then there’s this clear split-screen moment of what is very likely to be a presidential rematch this November. What did you hear in President Biden’s remarks? Anything to fact check there?

DANIEL DALE, CNN REPORTER: Honestly, no. I mean, especially when I fact check President Trump and President Biden is speaking next, you know, I want to do a fact check on the current president as well. But what he did, Kaitlan, was stick narrowly to the text of that bipartisan border deal that Trump opposes. He argued that it should be passed and he criticized its critics. So not only was there a juxtaposition in style with former President Trump, you know, speaking off the cuff, President Biden sticking to his script.

But in terms of the level of factual accuracy, I mean, it was scripted in an accurate way the speech we heard from the president. The former president said what he wanted to and much of it was not true. So, I don’t have any fact checks of President Biden here, but I think that’s for an obvious reason.

COLLINS: Remarkable. Daniel Dale, glad to have you on standby. Thank you for that.

Watch above via CNN’s The Lead.