CNN conducts lengthy fact check after Trump’s misleading post-hearing rant

CNN urged their viewers to “brace yourself” as they conducted a lengthy fact check into Donald Trump’s long and breathless rant in a Manhattan courtroom after his attorneys delivered closing arguments in his civil fraud case.

An angry Mr Trump lashed out at the months-long fraud case against him, at which New York state prosecutors are seeking more than $370m in damages and for him to be banned from owning property in the state.

Mr Trump clashed with judge Arthur Engoron, who at one point asked the former president’s attorney to “please control” his client as he claimed he did nothing wrong and painted himself as the victim of political persecution who should be owed money for the litigation against him.

After airing footage of Mr Trump speaking, CNN anchor Brianna Keilar and co-host Boris Sanchez dug into the details of his conspiracy-laden speech point by point.

Mr Trump, in his speech, claimed that New York Attorney General Letitia James was engaged in a politically motivated investigation orchestrated by president Joe Biden.

Mr Trump said: “My legal issues, every one of them, civil and the criminal ones, are all set up by Joe Biden … they’re doing it for election interference.”

Keilar said “it is not” Mr Biden’s indictment. «It’s a civil fraud trial in New York, Joe Biden did not set this up,” she said.

New York Attorney General Letitia James (C, top) sits in New York State Supreme Court during the civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization

Mr Biden’s closest link to a Trump-related case is that he appointed Attorney General Merrick Garland. Mr Garland, in turn, appointed the special counsel responsible for indicting Mr Trump in two federalcriminal cases related to the 2020 election and classified documents at