On Monday, during a testy Oval Office exchange with liberal CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, President Trump alleged her network hates the United States of America: “They don’t like putting out good numbers… I think they hate our country, actually.”
Moments later, Inside Politics host Dana Bash took umbrage with the President’s claim: “For the record, since we heard President Trump say in the Oval Office that CNN hates our country, CNN does not hate our country. That should go without saying.”
Clearly we’ve got two conflicting accounts here. To help get to the truth, we at NewsBusters have decided to partake in the highly respected and not-at-all cynical practice of fact-checking (just like CNN’s Daniel Dale does!).
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President Donald Trump: “I think they [CNN] hate our country, actually.”
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