A dialogue on Wednesday’s CNN NewsNight took a flip so outrageous that even CNN’s personal fact-checkers would object. Throughout the dialogue, political commentator Ana Navarro accused President Trump of “making up tales about transgender mice” regardless of CNN’s personal web site saying in any other case.
Navarro’s remark got here on a panel which was lamenting the interior chaos plaguing the Democratic Social gathering since their defeat within the election of the earlier November. Because the temper turned nostalgic for the Obama years, Navarro fumed:
(…) Barack Obama resides his finest life, and…the power from the Democrats has received to return from the individuals. As a result of… the one factor that the speaking heads and the elected officers do, is assault one another. At this time, as an alternative of attacking Trump’s lies, and yesterday’s state of the union- attacking the truth that Trump was making up tales about transgender mice- I assume he thinks the mice are all turning into little Emilia Perezes. We’re speaking in regards to the Democrats and the way they’re infighting once more.
CNN had certainly been circulating the allegation that Trump had lied when he acknowledged that his new Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), had caught the federal government spending “$ 8 million for making mice transgender.”
Nonetheless, they have been quickly compelled to confess that they had been just a little quick and free with the accusation, and there was, in truth, extra to the story. In a fact-check on their web site, CNN admitted that the morning after the speech the White Home had produced documentary proof of federal grants of $8.3 million for “well being research that contain mice receiving remedies that can be utilized in gender-affirming well being care” for the aim of “figur[ing] out how these remedies would possibly have an effect on the well being of people who take them, not for the aim of constructing mice transgender.”
A correction from Deidre McPhillips learn, “An earlier model of this merchandise incorrectly characterised as false Trump’s declare about federal cash being spent for “making mice transgender.” The article has been up to date with context in regards to the spending, which was for analysis research on the potential human well being impacts of remedies utilized in gender-affirming care.”
As CNN was nonetheless keen to emphasise, the data indicated that the aim of utilizing these hormones on lab mice was to check their results on people receiving gender remedy, however whether or not or not the endgame of subjecting mice to such procedures was to make the mice themselves “little Emilia Perezes,” that was in truth what was being completed. Subsequently, Trump’s assertion was not “ma[de] up,” and Navarro had falsely accused the president of mendacity.
On this event, CNN had so flagrantly been caught useless of their tracks, even they needed to backpedal a bit on their silly drivel. Nonetheless, their on-air personalities didn’t appear to get the memo.
To learn the complete transcript is under:
CNN Newsnight
03/05/2025
10:23 PM[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: LOST DEMS FACE INTERNAL STRIFE OVER STRATEGY, BEHAVIOR]
ANA NAVARRO: (…) Barack Obama resides his finest life, and it is going- the met- the power from the Democrats has received to return from the individuals.
As a result of the- all- the one factor that the speaking heads and the elected officers do, is assault one another.
At this time, as an alternative of attacking Trump’s lies, and yesterday’s state of the union- attacking the truth that Trump was making up tales about transgender mice- I assume he thinks the mice are all turning into little Emilia Perezes- We’re speaking in regards to the Democrats and the way they’re infighting once more.
