'Extremely Dishonest': CNN Fact-Checker Nails Trump On 13 'Flat False' ClaimsDaniel Dale said the president's speech before a joint session of Congress was filled with falsehoods. ...by the standard of any politician in Washington who is not Donald Trump, that was still an extremely dishonest speech,” he said. Some of Trump’s 2025 false claims were about consequential policy matters, others about trivial personal fixations. Falsely claimed Ukraine started the war with Russia, saying, “You should’ve never started it. It is true that Germany temporarily revived some idled coal plants after Russia slashed natural gas exports following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but those plants were taken offline again in 2024.
