This week, CNN host Abby D. Phillip tried to explain why the judges of the presidential debates only checked facts about former President Donald Trump and not Vice President Kamala Harris, even though Harris told many lies during the debates.
“Just so you know: when there is unequal lying, there will also be unequal fact checking,” Abby D. Phillip wrote on X.
People were upset that David Muir and Linsey Davis, two reporters on ABC News, were always checking facts about Trump while letting Harris get away with lies.
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Alana Mastrangelo of Breitbart News made a list of 21 lies Harris told during the discussion. Joel Pollak of Breitbart News says that moderators tried to fact-check Trump at least seven times, but not Harris once.
Daniel Dale of CNN said later that Trump lied at least 33 times while Harris only lied “at least one time.”