CNN Fact-Checks Trump’s Claims About Prices of Groceries and Gas: ‘No Truth to Any of Those Claims’

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DALE: “No truth to any of those claims, Jake. So, on the days the president was referring to there, last Wednesday and Thursday, there was not a single state that had its average gas price any lower than $2.70. So, nowhere near $1.98. Now, people might say, well, the president didn’t say average prices, he said prices. So maybe there were some gas stations in some states selling for $1.98. I asked the firm GasBuddy about this. GasBuddy tracks tens of thousands of stations across the country. They found zero stations, zero stations anywhere in the country, anywhere below $2.19. So that’s wrong too. Now, I’ll add that I asked the White House about this. They not only couldn’t corroborate the president’s claim, but they introduced another lie in sending me a response about the previous lie. They said that if big city reporters actually went out to middle America, they would see that gas prices there are at record lows. Well, I looked into that as well, Jake. Also not true. We’re nowhere near record lows anywhere in this country.”