Ed Lavandera

@CNN Senior National Correspondent
Instagram: @edlavacnn

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

It’s a pattern: MAGA media outlets will take a Trump claim really seriously even if it’s silly or spurious; then, when the claim is disproven, MAGA media will barely touch it. Trump devotees are left with incomplete (at best) info. The newest example >>> https://t.co/PikGStQYo9

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Fact check on some of President Trump's comments at his Cabinet meeting:

- On the cyberattacks against local water systems, there’s absolutely zero basis for Trump’s bizarre assertion that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was “behind it.” Trump made no mention of the governors of the six other states the FBI says have been targeted this week. CNN reports that US and state officials consider Iran a suspect in the attacks.

- Trump said Iran still has “some” missiles and “some” drones but then said a bit later, again, that “everything is all gone,” which he had implicitly fact-checked himself with his acknowledgment that not everything is all gone...

- Trump said he’s “ended eight wars.” He simply hasn’t; his list is wildly inflated; see my previous tweet.

- Trump said, “We're building more factories and plants in this country than we've ever built before.” The White House could not identify any source for this claim when I inquired this week. Federal figures show that spending on manufacturing construction has declined month after month this Trump term after a spike that occurred during most of the Biden presidency.

- Trump said, "When we took office, we inherited a total catastrophe. The last administration created the worst inflation in 48 years.” The inflation rate did hit a 40-year (not 48-year) high under Biden, 9.1%…but that was in June 2022, two-and-a-half years before Trump returned to office, when he inherited a rate of 3.0%, which was lower than the 3.5% rate of this June.

- Trump said, "This month, it was announced that inflation is dropping at the fastest rate in more than six years.” *Did* drop last month, true, but not “is dropping” now; the steep decline of June was largely because gas prices fell sharply amid the ceasefire with Iran. In July, gas prices have jumped back up.

- Trump said, as usual, that Biden let in “25 million” migrants, a massive exaggeration even wilder than the previous “21 million” figure he has further inflated without explanation; he also said, as usual, that Biden let in 11,888 murderers, a gross distortion of federal data on people who entered over the course of decades including Trump’s own first administration.

Details: https://t.co/mrIwoP10Gv

[CNN @CNN]

The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://t.co/yWzkTG76wo

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

A man who was inside the van where an ICE agent fatally shot Houston father Lorenzo Salgado Araujo speaks out for the first time exclusively to @edlavaCNN. He says the DHS’ story is “a lie.”

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Russia is attacking Kyiv with ballistic missiles, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko and the Ukrainian Air Force. https://t.co/3phESWKEkv

[Ed Lavandera @edlavaCNN]

JUST IN: major development in the shooting death of #LorenzoSalgado. https://t.co/kBURd05gsd

[Zach Despart @zachdespart]

The Texas secretary of state is required by law to promptly refer complaints of election crimes if there's reason to believe they're true. More than a week after receiving a complaint about AG Ken Paxton, the SoS hasn't answered our questions about it.
https://t.co/U2HyD0Uhbz

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Trump has approved a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia that could lead to the kingdom enriching its own fuel for civilian reactors, US official says.
https://t.co/XhCrg0xY34

[Ed Lavandera @edlavaCNN]

Wild story...

[CNN @CNN]

OpenAI says some of its experimental AI models left a test environment with no human direction and hacked its way onto a different company’s real production systems while trying to “cheat” on a cybersecurity test. https://t.co/zRnsEmUaKj

[Ed Lavandera @edlavaCNN]

Great reporting on government agencies fighting transparency.

[Fort Worth Star-Telegram @startelegram]

Keller ISD, GCISD among 151 Texas agencies suing to keep public records secret https://t.co/IVwmawiVCg

[Ed Lavandera @edlavaCNN]

¡Viva España! To the #Worldcup Final

[Ed Lavandera @edlavaCNN]

I will live forever

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Adults whose spicy food intake averaged six or seven days a week had a 14 percent lower relative risk of dying than those whose intake averaged less than once a week.

Here’s what else we know about how spicy foods affect our health: https://t.co/gEpjgVxjf1

[Ed Lavandera @edlavaCNN]

Brutal times in Cuba…

[Patrick Oppmann CNN @CNN_Oppmann]

Once again Cuba’s national power grid collapsed on Tuesday…

[Ed Lavandera @edlavaCNN]

New details…

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

ICE agents have been directed to largely suspend vehicle stops until further notice following recent deadly shootings in Maine and Texas, source says. Follow live updates. https://t.co/r7krsmn5aA

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Lindsey Graham, the longtime Republican senator from South Carolina, has died age 71 after a "brief and sudden illness," his office said https://t.co/Q6XMb6qsPy

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Four settlers were arrested after an attack on CNN and other journalists in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, according to Israeli Police. https://t.co/k7z9WnMn9J

[Jessica Huseman @JessicaHuseman]

Story: https://t.co/ObBsoiloSh

[Nick Miroff @NickMiroff]

NEW @TheAtlantic Trump is using tens of millions in taxpayer money meant for national parks to fund his desired projects, including White House paving stones he had promised to pay for, documents obtained by @michaelscherer show 🔽

[Ed Lavandera @edlavaCNN]

DEVELOPING: Major vote happening in Texas this morning...
Texas is poised to require Biblical stories be taught in the state's social studies curriculum.
https://t.co/QXJNrkOmPK

[Ed Lavandera @edlavaCNN]

Thank you Dr Hotez!
I’m grateful for your kind words!
Here’s the link to the story.

https://t.co/juA1bkFftq

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

On @OutFrontCNN this evening, I thought @edlavaCNN did an excellent and very thorough/comprehensive report on the emergence of New World screwworm in South Texas. He’s always good on reporting from Texas, but this segment was especially strong. Maybe @JeffStorobinsky can find it or @cnn