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A CNN fact-checker exposed Donald Trump\u2019s fanciful tale about South Korea on Monday, saying \u201cevery single part\u201d of it was simply \u201cwrong.\u201d <\/p>\n

Read more CNN Stars Back Female Colleague After Trump Launches Vile Personal Attack<\/a><\/p>\n

On The Lead<\/i>, Daniel Dale responded to the president\u2019s false history of U.S. relations with the Asian country under his first administration and that of Joe Biden. <\/p>\n

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Trump, 80, told reporters in the Oval Office that during his first term, South Korea \u201cagreed to pay close to $3 billion a year for protection, because, you know, they essentially weren\u2019t paying.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cAnd I asked them to do that, at my request. They weren\u2019t happy about it, but they agreed. I asked for $10 billion, and, uh, they were very unhappy, but we agreed for a short term there would be $3 billion and next year it would go up, and the next year it would go up \u2014 so they start paying for their protection,\u201d he continued. <\/p>\n

After throwing in some election denialism, Trump claimed he saw Biden \u201crescind that $3 billion, for whatever reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dale, who wrote on X that \u201cevery single part\u201d of Trump\u2019s story \u201cwas wrong,\u201d explained why, first in an article and then to anchor Jake Tapper.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout exaggeration, every single part of the president\u2019s story was wrong,\u201d Dale began. \u201cTrump said that before he took office the first time, South Korea essentially wasn\u2019t paying anything to share the cost of the U.S. military presence. In fact, under the Obama administration\u2014before Trump took office\u2014South Korea was paying more than $800 million per year. Those cost-sharing agreements date back to 1991, so decades.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Trump\u2019s Sin City Enforcer Gets Smacked Down<\/a><\/p>\n

Congressional records confirmed those and other figures Dale later cited. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow, Trump said that after he took office, he got South Korea to agree to pay $3 billion a year, and then subsequent increases the year after that and the year after that. In fact, he did secure a one-year increase of 8.2 percent, but that only brought the total to less than $1 billion\u2014nowhere close to $3 billion\u2014and there were no increases agreed to in the two subsequent years,\u201d Dale said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then, he told a story about South Korea calling up President Joe Biden and telling him that Trump was probably a bad person, and getting Biden to agree to immediately rescind the $3 billion payment that South Korea supposedly agreed to,\u201d Dale concluded. \u201cBiden did not rescind any Trump-era cost-sharing deal. In fact, there was no cost-sharing deal in place under Biden because negotiations on a new one had stalled amid Trump\u2019s exorbitant demands in 2020.\u201d <\/p>\n

Biden got South Korea to agree to two increases, Dale explained: a 13.9 percent increase in a 2021 deal, and an 8.3 percent increase in a 2024 agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, just wrongness upon wrongness, upon wrongness, Jake.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast.<\/p>\n

Dale, a CNN journalist since 2019, called out another one of the president\u2019s \u201ccompletely made-up stories\u201d a few weeks ago: how people couldn\u2019t watch his debate with Joe Biden in June 2024 because \u201cthe wind wasn\u2019t blowing,\u201d causing television blackouts in wind-powered areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president is making stuff up again,\u201d Dale said.<\/p>\n

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Last October, Dale also noted \u201ca lot of lies\u201d in Trump\u2019s address to an auditorium full of generals at Quantico.<\/p>\n

Read more Harvard Professor Busted Using AI to Write Column<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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