Donald Trump Jr said CNN wouldn’t fact check Joe Biden and the comeback was brutal

To the world of Donald Trump Jr, where the outgoing president’s son accused CNN of admitting it wouldn’t fact check Joe Biden as thoroughly as it did Donald Trump.

Trump Jr shared this tweet with an excerpt from an article about the media’s coverage of the White House during the Trump years.

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CNN reporters admitting they won't cover Biden as feverishly as they did Trump!!https://t.co/5Hn07iBtG0 pic.twitter.com/DxcMVWgEnO

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) December 29, 2020

… and this is what Trump Jr said about it.

CNN “fact checker” admitting that he’s pivoting from fact checking Biden to focusing on “online disinformation,” AKA CNN code for Republicans who use the internet + "congressional leaders" which will almost undoubtedly = congressional Republicans in practice.

So predictable 🙄 https://t.co/SzkFuYKIFJ

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 29, 2020

And CNN’s fact checker in chief Daniel Dale – who we’ve featured here before with this magnificent fact check of Donald Trump – had the perfect response.

Not at all what I said; no “pivot.” What I said: Since Biden – like every non-Trump Republican in the 2016 field and potential 2024 field! – lies way less frequently than Trump, there’ll be time in the Biden era to *also* fact check others in addition to the president. https://t.co/rptI57OSjQ

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 29, 2020

CNN will rigorously fact check President Biden. It’s just objective and obvious fact that it takes less time to fact check basically everyone in politics than it takes to do Trump, a staggeringly incessant liar. If you choose to call me biased for stating that fact, feel free.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 29, 2020

I can’t even count how many days I spent writing stories like “Trump makes 25/30/40 false claims at rally.” That doesn’t happen with Biden – as it doesn’t with McConnell or McCarthy or etc. And so, post-Trump, there’s more time to spend on people other than the prez. The end.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 29, 2020

Consider yourself fact checked, Don Jr.

Dude got fact checked about fact checking

— Richard Mann (@RichardAMann) December 29, 2020

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Donald Trump was fact checked by CNN and it’s simply magnificent

Source Twitter @ddale8 H/T Indy100