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NextImg:CNN Fact-Checker Floored By Trump Cabinet Meeting: 'There Was Just So Much'

President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting Wednesday of his new administration was riddled with inaccuracies and falsehoods, says CNN’s fact-checking reporter Daniel Dale, who delivered a boatload of receipts on “Inside Politics.”

Host Dana Bash kicked things off with Trump’s claim that “60 Minutes” altered the answers of former Vice President Kamala Harris during an interview last year rather than merely editing the footage. A full interview transcript has since proven that the video was only edited.

Dale went on to fact-check a whole host of other claims Trump made during the meeting, including false claims about U.S. aid to Ukraine, America’s education ranking, mail-in voting, tariffs on China, fentanyl deaths — and Elon Musk’s controversial email to federal workers.

“There was just so much in this Cabinet meeting,” said Dale before diving into the facts.

“We heard this claim again from the president, he’s been saying it over and over in the past week, that the U.S. has provided Ukraine with $350 billion worth of aid, and that this is about three times what Europe collectively has provided,” he continued. “That is not true.”

“The $350 billion number is not true, nor is the idea that the U.S. has provided way more than Europe,” Dale confirmed. “According to a think tank in Germany that closely tracks this aid, it is Europe that has collectively provided more aid to Ukraine than the U.S. has.”

Trump also said Wednesday the U.S. ranks 40th out of 40 in various educational rankings, which Dale said he tried to inquire about with the White House, who never offered clarification. His claim that the U.S. is the sole country with mail-in voting is also false.

A recent report confirms 14 countries in Europe, for instance, provide voters with the option.

Trump held the first Cabinet meeting of his new administration Wednesday.
Trump held the first Cabinet meeting of his new administration Wednesday.
Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images

“He said the U.S. took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China in the tariffs he imposed in the first term,” Dale continued Wednesday. “In fact, Americans paid those tariffs.”

The president also claimed that 300,000 Americans die annually from fentanyl overdoses. Dale said that number, while still tragic, is ultimately closer to 60,000.

“He offered another alternate history of the European Union’s formation, saying it was formed to screw, take advantage of the U.S. In fact, it was formed with U.S. support, so not even close to correct,” he continued. “And so, I don’t even know where to go from here.”

Dale certainly did, however, and cited Musk’s email Saturday from the Department of Government Efficiency giving federal staffers 48 hours to explain what they’ve done at work last week, which led Trump to claim that the million people who didn’t respond don’t exist.

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“I think it’s important to note that we had numerous agency heads … telling their employees not to respond,” Dale said. “So the simpler explanation is that people were instructed not to do this, rather than them being, you know, fictional, nonexistent human beings.”

Watch Dale’s full analysis here: