CNN fact-checks Trump's false and racist statements from disastrous NABJ interview
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Citation From the July 31, 2024, edition of CNN's CNN News Central
DANIEL DALE (REPORTER): So the controversialness of the claims about Vice President Harris' identity will probably make the most headlines, but I think it's important to note that his claims on that subject are also false. You know, he said that Vice President Harris has only “turned Black” a couple of years ago and before that she was only promoting her Indian heritage. That is just not true. I quickly — just via Google and with the help of CNN's KFile team, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck — found multiple examples of her talking about her Black identity going back decades.
Her biography on the official website of the San Francisco district attorney page identified her as an African American woman. I found an article in Politico that quoted her talking about her Black identity and speaking out against anti-Black racism in 1989, as a law student. So this is not some sort of sudden identity conversion, that's just completely fictional.
And then, guys, it was just a laundry list of old Trump false claims. So, his claim that — well, he said she didn't pass the bar exam. You addressed that. She passed on a second try and was admitted to the bar a year after she graduated law school.
He talked about Democrats allowing the death of babies after birth, suggesting that there's some sort of post-birth abortion. Again, not true, illegal in every state.
He said, “everybody” wanted Roe v. Wade overturned, this issue returned to the states. No, that's not true. Roe was overwhelmingly popular with about two-thirds of the American public.
He talked again about foreign countries opening up prisons to send people here as migrants — has never provided any proof of that.
Talked about people coming here from mental institutions over the border. Again, provided no proof of that.
And he exaggerated numbers even that could work for him. So, talking about inflation, yes, has been a problem under President Biden, Vice President Harris. He said worst inflation in 58 years and then he said actually over 100 years. Well, it's not even the worst in 20 years right now. It's about 3%. And when it did hit a high under Biden and Harris in 2022, it was a 40-year high. So, he could just say we hit a 40-year high — instead, he made a 58 and then 100-plus, none of which is true.