Fox News Reports CNN's Daniel Dale 80-Day Mark for On-Air Fact Checks: Trump 23, Biden 2

April 11th, 2025 1:00 PM

CNN hired Daniel Dale from the Toronto Star in 2019, where he dropped Twitter bombs on Trump. The leftists at Wikipedia nailed Dale's reason for coming to America: 

Daniel Dale (born March 28, 1985) is a Canadian journalist known for rebutting a large number of false claims made by United States president Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and presidency. 

NewsBusters has repeatedly noted that Dale appears on air at CNN overwhelmingly to "correct" Trump. Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn exposed that pattern again: in the first 80 days of Trump's second term, Dale made at least 23 on-air fact-checks of Trump, but only two for Biden during the same period in 2021.

Since Jan. 20, Dale has appeared on-air at least 23 times to fact-check Trump and members of his administration, according to Grabien transcripts reviewed by Fox News Digital.

Dale offered his first on-air fact-check of Trump just hours after he was sworn into office in response to remarks Trump made from the Oval Office. CNN anchors frequently have Dale on standby to refute Trump's claims following major speeches like the one he gave to the World Economic Forum and his address to the joint session of Congress as well as Trump's impromptu exchanges with reporters. On at least two separate occasions, Dale appeared on CNN three times in a single day....

The same, however, cannot be said about Dale's coverage of Biden in early 2021. During the same 80-day period, Dale offered just two on-air fact checks of Biden, according to transcript search results. 

In fact, Dale appeared on CNN more often during Biden's first 80 days to fact-check Trump, who was no longer in office, as well as GOP lawmakers, who at the time did not control either chamber of Congress.

In fact, Dale was remarkably slow at getting around to fact-checking President Biden -- the first one came on March 25, 2021 to check him on air over his false claim that his administration was turning away migrant families at the southern border. 

We made the point that CNN hosted a town-hall event with Biden on February 16, and Dale fact-checked it online, but not on television. Wulfsohn added: 

The second on-air fact-check came on April 3, 2021, over what Biden had said about Georgia's election reform bill. Meanwhile, Dale spent more airtime fact-checking Trump about Jan. 6 and his 2020 election denial claims as well as Republicans on Capitol Hill over their comments on government spending.

"Biden has been generally factual so far, especially in scripted remarks," Dale wrote on X in March 2021. "Where he has been inaccurate, it has often been when he has been attempting off the cuff to refer to numbers he doesn’t have nailed down."

This divergence was also notable on CNN.com. Dale wrote at least 26 fact-checks against Trump during his first 80 days, and just eight on Biden at the same point in 2021. "Notably, Dale fact-checked Trump before fact-checking the sitting president, published on Biden's Inauguration Day."