In this week’s fact-checking video, CNN’s Jake Tapper examines efforts by Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue to discredit Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin’s account of President Trump using profanity to disparage African countries at an immigration meeting in the Oval Office.
Person: Tom Cotton
Durbin’s ‘History’ of Misrepresentations
What Did Trump Say at Immigration Meeting?
Cotton’s False Insurance Assurance
Kerry, Cotton Spar Over Iran
FlackCheck.org Video: Immigration Claims
Cotton’s Porous Border Story
2014 Campaign Whoppers
Student Loan Stretching
A ‘Whopper’ in Arkansas Debate?
At an Oct. 13 Arkansas Senate debate, Rep. Tom Cotton claimed that Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor “voted for every one of Barack Obama’s tax increases.” Pryor called this a “whopper,” and countered that he “voted against every budget that President Obama has offered.” We find that both are not telling the whole story.