CNN Anchors Fact Check ‘A Plethora of Falsehoods’ Made by Trump During Press Conference in New York

After a day that handed former President Donald Trump a partial legal victory followed by a court date, he was bound to want to speak to the press. And whenever he does that, CNN gets ready for a fact check .

Trump spoke on Monday outside Trump Tower at 40 Wall Street in New York City, one of the buildings that could have been seized by New York Attorney General Letitia James had a New York appeals court not granted the former president a lower bond — $175 million — plus a 10-day extension to pay . That was just one decision that came down on Monday; just hours later, in a different courtroom, Judge Juan Merchan set an April 15 court date for Trump’s hush money trial.

CNN covered Trump’s remarks, cutting out before he started taking questions (and later cutting back in), as anchor Boris Sanchez reported, “Trump there, laying out a plethora of falsehoods,” signaling the beginning of the fact check with anchor Kaitlan Collins , who referred to those now-familiar falsehoods as “classics”:

Sanchez: Trump there, laying out a plethora of falsehoods, perhaps the most blatant one, that all of these criminal cases were orchestrated by President [Joe] Biden . There is no evidence to support that. Just about every single one of the criminal cases went before grand juries that then elected to indict the former president. But of course, he is using this moment, Kaitlan Collins, as an opportunity to campaign, as we’ve often seen him do before.

Collins: Yeah, some of the classics there, including his claim that he repeats on a near-daily basis about other countries emptying out their mental institutions and sending those people across the border, something his campaign has never been able to provide any factual basis for. But on the task at hand today, which is these criminal cases and the fact that his first criminal case is going to be starting in three weeks with that jury selection, after that decision was made here in the courtroom behind us by Judge Juan Merchan, Trump was criticizing that and criticizing Alvin Bragg, the district attorney who’s brought that case.

Mark Pomeranz, the person he was citing, is an attorney who’s a prosecutor, used to work in that office and then detailed a book about the investigations that they had been potentially pursuing against Donald Trump, including that they once considered bringing a racketeering charge against him. Trump did not mention that part of Mark Pomerantz’s book .

But but clearly his anger here is that the judge and the fact that Judge Merchan did not allow this trial to get delayed any further than what it already was, which I should note, it was supposed to start today, so there is at least a three-week delay. He was saying the judge cannot move fast enough on this. What the judge has made clear here is something we’ve kind of seen in stark contrast to the other criminal cases that Trump is facing, is that he does not play into this delay strategy that we have seen from Trump’s legal team and said that what they brought today does not warrant any further delay from this court and that that case will go forward, Boris.

Sanchez then brought in CNN’s resident fact-checker , reporter Daniel Dale , who provided more facts surrounding Biden’s lack of involvement in Trump’s legal cases, reiterating that those claims are “not supported by any evidence.”

Watch the video above via CNN.