CNN's fact-checking unit reached out last week to The Heritage Foundation for analysis of President Donald Trump's recent comments about the U.S. military's munitions stockpile at the time he took office.
Bewilderingly, the fact-checker for the cable news pioneer then ignored those facts.
Some 24 hours and multiple emails after the initial request, CNN published its “fact check,” claiming Trump severely exaggerated the sad state of the munitions stockpile when he became president, and also his impact on the rebuild since.
Just one problem: CNN completely omitted the wealth of data provided by a Heritage Foundation defense analyst demonstrating exactly the opposite to be true.
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