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For Tuesday’s edition of Prime Time, CNN host Chris Cuomo invited on pompous Toronto Star fact checker Daniel Dale to try to catch President Trump in lies about immigration and border. But while the anti-Trump journalists were trying to pounce on the President, they both shared a whopper of a lie when they falsely claimed Democrats weren’t for open borders. Cuomo went so far as to suggest he’s never heard a Democrat promote that.
In teeing up this supposed “fact-check”, Cuomo dismissed Trump’s immigration arguments with this pathetic strawman: “This is about, again, another straight attack on “hey, it's not me, it's got to be somebody else. Okay. It's Obama. Okay, it's the Democrats. You don't like my way, you know what they want? Open borders.” Take a listen.”
After being prompted by his host, Dale commended Trump’s claim as an “effective piece of political framing”, but then whined about how it was “rarely challenged for its factual inaccuracy by the media. And I think we should challenge it because it’s simply not at all accurate.”
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