Over Trump's tenure in office, few have gone as viral as CNN fact checker Daniel Dale.
Dale skyrocketed to fame for his succinct—often breathless—real time fact checks of outgoing President Donald Trump's thousands of lies.
He's left his colleagues speechless with the rapidity of his corrections and informed Americans with his research and knowledge to counter Trump's frequent falsehoods.
In the face of Trump's countless lies that widespread voter fraud coordinated by Democrats somehow tipped the 2020 election to President-elect Joe Biden, Dale has been working overtime.
And when Trump posted a video threatening to veto the COVID-19 relief bill passed by Congress after months of fruitless congressional negotiations, the President repeated these lies about the election and continued to float the fantasy that he'll serve another four years in the White House.
That's when Dale had enough.
Trump last night released a 14-minute Facebook video full of lies about the election, and, like his tweets on the subject, it's too bonkers, repetitive and irrelevant to bother fact checking at this point.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 23, 2020
This is not some “the fact checker is exhausted and broken!" thing. I'm the same as always. It just doesn't make sense at this point to spend time re-debunking the outgoing president's repeated nonsense. And that'll be especially true when he's the former president.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 23, 2020
Dale emphasized that it wasn't because he was "exhausted" or "broken," but that Trump's "repeated nonsense" isn't worth fact-checking as Trump leaves office. Not to mention, Trump repeats these lies so often that Dale has fact checked practically all of them before.
While a faction of the President's followers have put forth bizarre conspiracies about some possible way the election could be overturned, President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January 20th.
People didn't fault Dale on foregoing the fact checks.
This is wonderful.
The best way to kill Trump is to ignore him. https://t.co/TVPw7wZoUW
— Roger Tansey 🌊🐕🌈 (@rogertansey) December 23, 2020
Agree. Didn't appear to be one true thing in that entire video. https://t.co/jxq7LngKfU
— Pam Fessler (@pamelafessler) December 23, 2020
We know it's all lies anyway https://t.co/3ulDCgmDxJ
— Frances Furr (@FrancesFurr1) December 23, 2020
The fact checker speaks, and as usual is correct.... https://t.co/K35HWBJMoK
— Starrfire71 (@starrfire71) December 23, 2020
This is spot-on and all you really need to know. The video does, however, surface fresh evidence of the President's mental instability. https://t.co/iU5TVji6D6
— Simon Marks (@SimonMarksFSN) December 23, 2020
Others rebuked social media platforms like Facebook for giving these lies an audience.
No matter who it is that occupies government positions, @facebook, given the fact that they profit mightily from the engagement that all posts bring, has a duty to either fact-check, de prioritize or remove posts with verifiable lies.
It is incredibly dangerous for them not to. https://t.co/Gl4u8Oe62x
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) December 23, 2020
Facebook should take note of how the president is using FB video because news agencies just won't carry his content anymore. https://t.co/jp1AMXUgoR
— Joan Donovan, PhD (@BostonJoan) December 23, 2020
Still a liar, a perpetual liar, the best liar ever, and good old Facebook provides the platform. https://t.co/hjfF3JPhnC
— Terry Kinney (@RealTerryKinney) December 23, 2020
Trump's final day in office is on January 20th.
