Rep. Mike Waltz blasted CNN’s “fact-checker” Daniel Dale live during an appearance on CNN during the Republican National Convention for claiming an easily proven statement of his was false.
"I think you're getting an opportunity to respond to it now. And as you know, Congressman, getting to the truth is a process. It's not as cut and dry as it may seem sometimes," the CNN interviewer said, adding "And just while we're talking that, I do want to talk, Daniel Dale, the CNN lead fact checker, who, I mean, directly got on air last night and spoke to my speech, right? I talked about Biden's military and his misguided priorities. Let's get to that. So there was a CNN fact check of your speech. You mentioned at one point, and I want to get this right, you said that Biden was focused on building electric tanks. Apparently that comes from this Army climate strategy that said that they wanted to make tactical vehicles electric.”
“Wrong” Rep. Waltz fired back.
Waltz: Let me fact check your fact checker. I have here Bloomberg reporting the U.S. Army putting its electric tanks on hold because they have to further invest in and develop the battery technology. I have testimony with the Secretary of the Army of this issue. I have the budget where they're investing in research and development on electric fighting vehicles, in addition to the non-tactical vehicles mentioned in that climate strategy.
So I would just suggest that Daniel Dale sit down with the chairman of the readiness committee who reviews and approves these budgets and has the testimony and has the actual facts before he questions someone's credibility on national television….. literally minutes after my speech, he's telling the world I'm misleading. There's no way he could review the Army's budget, the research and development, the testimony that I personally received under oath. Or how about just Google and get the facts?
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