‘I Can’t Even Believe I Have to Fact Check that One’: CNN’s Collins on Trump Cocaine Claims
Republican claims, falsely, that Biden uses illegal drugs
Kaitlan Collins clearly is growing weary of Donald Trump’s lies and baseless claims.
The CNN host, who notably had to fact-check a firehose of falsehoods from the former president in real-time last year during her network’s disastrous town hall program with Trump, was back at it on her program Wednesday.
This time, she took on whoppers Trump told about President Biden using illegal drugs to get through the debate Biden and Trump have planned later this month.
It came as Collins reported on the state of the race between Biden and Trump, and the tiny lead Biden’s taken in a new Fox News poll, on the same day as the nation celebrated the holiday of Juneteenth.
“It’s within the margin of error and this is just a snapshot of where we are right now, but notably, Biden is ahead of Trump in that Fox News poll for the first time since last October,” Collins said. “Of course, there‘s no clear leader in this race, which means the stakes for next week could not be higher for either camp here. And both campaigns are clearly eager for that match-up.
“Biden’s team marked the Juneteenth holiday by tearing into Trump‘s ‘flagrant racism,’ and Trump, on the other hand, may be realizing that he himself has set the bar too low by constantly painting Biden as confused and senile, is now trying to manage expectations in really what can only be described as the most Trumpian way possible,” she added.
Collins played a clip of Trump, claiming that a quantity of cocaine found in a public area of the White House was Biden’s.
“Joe Biden doesn‘t have a clue. Now we‘re going to watch — is anybody going to watch the debate?” Trump asks in the clip. “He’s going to be so pumped up, he‘s going to be pumped up. You know, all that stuff that was missing about a month ago from the White House, what happened? (...) Somebody didn‘t pick up hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of cocaine. I wonder who that could have been. I don‘t know. Actually, I think it was Joe.”
After the Trump clip, Collins interjected: “I can‘t even believe I have to fact-check that one, I guess, if that‘s what you‘re calling it, but it was not President Biden.”
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