Donald calls fascists "little peanuts", denies affairs, and asserts absolute immunity, whereas Kristi Noem, possible VP, exercises the lethargic ethics of animal abuse.
TAPPER: All right. The defendant, Donald j a Trump, after this third day of testimony of former tabloid magnate David Pecker coming out not attacking witnesses, not attacking jurors. So his lawyers can be happy about that.
Going into campaign issues, legitimate campaign issues, but as always worth a fact check.
So let’s bring in CNN’s Daniel Dale. Daniel, we heard talk of the stock market down, which is true, inflation up, gas in California, Charlottesville being a peanut — give us what you got.
DANIEL DALE, CNN REPORTER: Yeah. So, Charlottesville — I mean, former from president Trump said the Charlottesville protests in 2017 was a little peanut compared to what were seeing now in college campuses pro-Palestinian protesters. I guess that’s a matter of opinion on which I can’t render a definitive fact check.
But let’s remember the fact that a woman, a counter protester was murdered there in Charlottesville. We’ve had no reports of anything like that happening on any college campus today, and these pro- Palestinian protests. He said the hate in Charlottesville paled in comparison to the hate were seeing their — again, a matter of opinion, but lets remember, there was neo-Nazi and other white nationalist hate in Charlottesville. So remember those points.
On gas prices, former President Trump again said it just been announced, California, a gas is $7.50 per gallon. There always are, Jake, some outlying rural, deserted stations in California that have high prices. But today’s average according to AAA is $5.41 per gallon.
And then on the stock market, yeah, it has fallen that today in the wake of the GDP report. But if you look, I have the S&P numbers right in front of me. If you look at one year, it’s up 25 percent year-to- date, its up more than 6 percent six months, its up 22 percent. So we have had a bit of a decline, but let’s not suggest that the stock market has plummeted under President Biden or in the last year in general.
TAPPER: Daniel, just a point of clarification. I don’t want to be accused of fact checking our fact-checker, but $5.41 you noted as the average gas prices, that’s the average gas price in California.
DALE: In California, yeah.
TAPPER: In California, you didn’t specify because in the United States as a whole, its $3.65.
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