CNN’s Erin Burnett Has Daniel Dale Torpedo RFK Jr. Minutes After He Calls Biden Bigger Threat Than Trump
CNN anchor Erin Burnett called in fact-checker Daniel Dale to torpedo claims that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made in asserting that President Joe Biden is a greater “threat to democracy” than former President Donald Trump.
RFK Jr. was a guest on Monday night’s edition of CNN’s OutFront, during which he made the claim that “President Biden is a much worse threat to Democracy” based on Covid-era “censorship” by federal agencies.
Minutes after the contentious interview, Burnett called in Dale to deep-six that claim and several others — including a “stolen election” that you don’t hear much about these days:
BURNETT: So, Daniel, that’s not something that a lot of people have heard, the 2004 election, okay. And it stood out to you along with a few other key moments there.
DANIEL DALE: It did. So he did write an article about this in 2006 and rolling stone claiming that the election was stolen from John Kerry because of what happened in the state of Ohio, that an important swing state.
That article did not actually prove the election was stolen. It raised a litany of some very real problems that nonetheless did not show that Kerry would have won the state, if not for those problems. It also made like in many cases, with Mr. Kennedy, a whole bunch of speculative leaps assumptions about data that experts in these — things like exit polling said just not true. So no, there was no proof the election was stolen 2004 from Mr. Kerry.
So, Mr. Kennedy also made some other claims there, and I think we need to look at. He asserted that President Biden deny — has denied him Secret Service protection in this election. First of all, there is no evidence that President Biden has been at all personally involved in decisions about who should and should not get Secret Service protection.
Secondly, I think its important to note that there are federal criteria for who gets set protection, including such things as being the nominee of a major party, which Mr. Kennedy is not. Being at 15 percent or higher consistently for a month in the Real Clear Politics polling average, average with Mr. Kennedy currently is not.
Now there is some discretion. The secretary of homeland security, but yes, part of the Biden administration can decide to offer protection. But there’s no evidence this has been a decision for Mr. Biden to put him at risk.
He also claimed that President Biden has been personally censoring him. We know there is a controversy about a White House communications with social media companies about what post should post an account should remain up or not. There is no evidence that Biden has been involved whatsoever.
And it’s important to remember he was posting a frequent serial vaccine and other COVID-19 misinformation. That’s what we’re talking about here. Not political criticism.
BURNETT: All right, all right, which is obviously very significant to note that distinction.
All right. Our thanks to Daniel Dale.
Watch above via CNN’s OutFront.
