A CNN fact-check of President Trump’s speech to a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, claiming that the President made up a discovering that $8 million was spent to offer mice transgender therapies, has been retracted after the White Home supplied proof of the declare.
The dishonest fact-checkers bought caught mendacity once more.
President Trump, whereas delivering his Joint Tackle to Congress on Tuesday, outlined some examples of waste fraud and abuse found by the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), together with “$8 million for making mice transgender.”
“We discovered a whole lot of billions of {dollars} of fraud, and we’ve taken again the cash and lowered our debt to struggle inflation and different issues,” President Trump advised the nation.
WATCH:
CNN was fast to fact-check the President’s declare about transgender mice, claiming, “Trump falsely claimed that the Division of Authorities Effectivity recognized authorities spending of “$8 million for making mice transgender.”
Nonetheless, after the White Home supplied the receipts exhibiting that $8.3 million {dollars} was reportedly supplied for “research that contain mice receiving therapies that can be utilized in gender-affirming well being care.”
Nonetheless, CNN claims that the assertion lacks context as a result of “the research had been meant to determine how these therapies would possibly have an effect on the well being of people who take them, not for the aim of constructing mice transgender.” What a load.
“An earlier model of this merchandise incorrectly characterised as false Trump’s declare about federal cash being spent for “making mice transgender.” The article has been up to date with context in regards to the spending, which was for analysis research on the potential human well being impacts of therapies utilized in gender-affirming care,” reads a footnote on the backside of the edited truth examine.
By way of Libs of TikTok:
CNN simply quietly edited their “truth examine” article after they reported that Trump’s assertion on spending $8 million for making mice transgender was “false.”
It sounds so loopy that they thought Trump made it up…
It’s 100% true and now even CNN is pressured to confess it pic.twitter.com/oVETMXbKQG
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 5, 2025
