CNN Halts Broadcast Of Trump’s Border Speech After He Makes Multiple False Claims

In a speech on Tuesday night by Donald Trump in Texas, CNN decided to interrupt their live coverage to cite multiple false statements Trump made that needed to be corrected.

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins pointed out Trump’s misrepresentation of his own actions on border security while he was in office, and highlighted the need for accuracy. In conversation with CNN’s fact-checker Daniel Dale, Collins highlighted several lies in Trump’s speech.

One such falsehood was Trump’s claim that people from jails and mental institutions were being released and transported across the border. Collins noted that despite the lack of evidence provided by the Trump campaign, he continues to repeat this falsehood. Dale also debunked Trump’s assertion that many border crossers speak unknown languages and stated the claim to be a fabrication with no basis in reality.

Dale further fact-checked Trump’s claim that he built 571 miles of a border wall and clarified that none of it was funded by Mexico, as Trump had previously promised. This emphasized yet another unfulfilled pledge from the former president.

Trump’s repeated insistence that he won the 2020 presidential election and his false allegations of election fraud also had consequences. MSNBC, in response, refused to air Trump’s victory speech during the 2024 presidential campaign kickoff with the Iowa caucuses.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained, “The projected winner of the Iowa caucuses has just started giving his victory speech,” and told viewers the speech would not air live.

“We will keep an eye on that as it happens, we will let you know if there’s any news made in that speech, anything noteworthy, anything substantive and important,” she said. “The reason I’m saying this is, there’s a reason we and other news organizations have stopped giving an unfiltered live platform to former President Trump.”

Sen. Mitt Romney recently said it was “appalling” that Trump had ordered Republicans not back a bipartisan border deal that would have poured resources into additional security and expelled migrants faster.