CNN Fact-Checks The Many Cultist Lies Told At CPAC

CNN’s Daniel Dale has a partial list.

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio uttered two false claims about President Joe Biden. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia repeated a debunked claim about Zelensky. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama used two inaccurate statistics as he lamented the state of the country. Former Trump White House official Steve Bannon repeated his regular lie about the 2020 election having been stolen from Trump, this time blaming Fox for Trump’s defeat.

Rep. Kat Cammack of Florida incorrectly said a former Obama administration official had encouraged people to harass Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina inaccurately claimed Biden had laughed at a grieving mother. Two other speakers, Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and former Trump administration official Sebastian Gorka, inflated the number of deaths from fentanyl.

Read the full article. Dale has a lengthy breakdown.

Here is a fact check of 13 false claims from the last two days of CPAC.

Featuring Steve Bannon, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Reps. Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ralph Norman, Scott Perry and Kat Cammack, and others. https://t.co/6WqtFQAAbR

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 4, 2023