'Lying spree': CNN fact-checker shocked by flood of Trump falsehoods uttered in single day

Former President Donald Trump unleashed a "lying spree" when he spoke at a pair of campaign rallies this week, CNN's fact-checker Daniel Dale argued.

"The Republican presidential nominee has made false claim after false claim on a dizzying variety of subjects" at his rallies in Scranton and Reading, wrote Dale.

"He has both come up with new falsehoods on pressing issues ... and repeated old favorites about subjects he has been railing about since his 2016 presidential campaign."

Among the highlighted false claims were several about the response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the devastating hurricanes that have battered the Southeast. Trump claimed FEMA has "no money" because it all went to migrants, and that they don't even have a workforce.

Trump has been on a steady drumbeat of false claims about FEMA, which has prompted government officials to beg him to stop, saying they're scaring people impacted by disasters into thinking no one is coming to help them.

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Other lies Trump pushed, many of which are also repeats from previous rallies, are that schools are performing gender surgeries on children without parental consent, that Vice President Kamala Harris was the first candidate to drop out in 2020 presidential primaries, that Harris wants to add 25 more justices to the Supreme Court, that wind power means you “can’t watch” television if “there’s no wind tonight," that Venezuela is dumping prisoners and gang members to the United States, and that the global prison population is down because countries are sending all their prisoners to America.

The former president also continued to push his ongoing claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.

“They are cheatin’ dogs, I will tell you that,” Trump said of Democrats. “Their first meeting is: ‘How do we cheat?’”

All told, Dale wrote, "We went through the speeches Trump made at his two Wednesday campaign rallies in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania ... In those two addresses alone, he uttered at least 40 separate false claims."