CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins dumped out of former President Donald Trump’s post-appeals court presser to fact-check him as he was in the middle of spewing falsehoods.

Trump spoke to reporters following an appeals court hearing on his claim of presidential immunity in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday.

The appeal was heard by a three-judge panel consisting of Judge J. Michelle Childs, Judge Florence Pan, and Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson.

CNN covered the hearing live, and carried the first few minutes of Trump’s news conference. But as Trump casually dropped falsehoods and misleading statements, Collins cut in to “fact-check” him, with help from a panel that included legal analyst Elie Honig:

KAITLAN COLLINS: Listening to former President Trump speaking there alongside two of his attorneys, at least one of them who was in the room making that argument earlier with that three judge panel.

Of course, a few fact checks and reality statements on what you’re hearing there. There is no evidence of voter fraud. Many of courts have found that there has never been any evidence of it that Trump has been able to bring, despite what he is continuing to say there.

It is still a notable comment coming six days before the Iowa caucuses and the 2024 election.

I just wonder what you heard, or what you made of John Lauro, because he was coming out there. And Trump echoed him, you know, at first trying to argue that this is, you know, President Biden, who is prosecuting Trump here. It’s not it’s the Justice Department who is also, as we just heard from a Democratic senator, also has been indicted, and the president’s son. But on the argument itself, their takeaways from what happened inside that courtroom today. What did you make of that?

ELIE HONIG: Yeah. So a couple of things. I think we need to set the record straight on. First of all, Donald Trump just told us that DOJ made these remarkable sort of shocking concessions. I don’t think so. I think DOJ was consistent in their position, which is a former president can be indicted for something that he did that falls outside the scope of the presidency.

I don’t think they actually gave away anything. I think to the contrary, was a little bit surprising to hear Donald Trump’s lawyers go in there and concede that under certain circumstances, a former president can be prosecuted.

We do have to address this point, this constant refrain that this is somehow Joe Biden going after Donald Trump. I mean, just so people understand, you have the president who nominates the attorney general, who is then confirmed by the Senate.

The attorney general, Merrick Garland, then put one more layer in and put Jack Smith in office as special counsel. And to be clear, there’s no evidence of any communication between any of those folks, particularly Joe Biden.

KAITLAN COLLINS: And Bill Barr has agreed that he does not believe the indictment in Washington. He believes that it’s a sound legal argument. He does not believe that it’s a politically motivated. That’s Trump’s attorney general.

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