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CNN Brutally Fact Checks Trump’s Wild Story

thedailybeast.com · 9h · first reportShare

A CNN fact-checker exposed Donald Trump’s fanciful tale about South Korea on Monday, saying “every single part” of it was simply “wrong.” On The Lead , Daniel Dale responded to the president’s false history of U.S. relations with the Asian country under his first administration and that of Joe Biden. Trump, 80, told reporters in the Oval Office that during his first term, South Korea “agreed to pay close to $3 billion a year for protection, because, you know, they essentially weren’t paying.” Read more at The Daily Beast.