Daniel Dale


Daniel Dale is a Canadian journalist who served as the Toronto Stars Washington bureau chief from 2015 to 2019. Dale was hired in June 2019 as a CNN reporter based in Washington.

Biography

Dale was born the son of Ronald Dale and Jennie Dale. His siblings are Andrew, Brittany, and Ryan. He was raised in Thornhill, Ontario. He earned a B.B.A. from York University's Schulich School of Business. After graduating, he worked for the Toronto Star as their Toronto City Hall reporter and bureau chief covering the administration of Mayor Rob Ford.
In 2013, then Toronto Mayor Rob Ford made disparaging remarks about Dale as part of "meddling media", and accused Dale of taking pictures on Ford's property. Ford later retracted the accusations, "there was absolutely no basis for the statement I made about Mr. Dale taking pictures", in response to Dale launching a lawsuit against him. After a lengthy apology from Mayor Ford, Dale canceled the lawsuit. After four years, Dale moved to the United States where he is focusing on the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Dale arrived in Washington, DC, to serve as the Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star in 2015.
In June 2019, Dale left the Toronto Star and joined CNN. According to CNN, "Daniel Dale is a reporter in CNN's Washington Bureau, where he fact-checks President Trump, 2020 presidential candidates, and others."

Awards and honors

Dale's awards and honors include:
Dale has written about his fact-checking of Donald Trump's statements in the Washington Post on November 16, 2018, in the Toronto Star, in Politico Magazine in October 2016, and in an interview by Toronto Life Other journalists quote a list of questionable and untrue statements and tweets from President Trump that Dale has been maintaining. On October 23, 2018, Dale told Judy Woodruff, of the PBS Newshour, that he had found that Trump's rate of dishonesty was increasing. Maggie Seroza, writing in Spin magazine extensively quoted from Dale, in an article that repeated Dale's notes when Trump showed he didn't know the name of the Democratic Party, suggesting that the Democrats should rename their party the Democratic Party, when that is, in fact, the party's name, as did Mehdi Hasan in Deconstructed Daniel W. Drezner, writing in the Washington Post extensively quoted from Dale in an article on Trump's claims on Medicare Dale now writes a regular "Facts First" column in CNN Politics.

Dale's fact-checking of other politicians

"Joe Biden was wrong about his record on private prisons. Kamala Harris was at least slightly misleading about how responsible she was for pushing a for-profit college out of business"
Dale fact-checked both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential candidate debates.
"Kamala Harris makes false claim about Trump and auto jobs"
"Biden makes misleading comments on his past positions on Iraq, Afghanistan wars."
"Biden again dishonestly suggests he opposed the Iraq War from the beginning".
"Bloomberg falsely claims NYPD only entered mosques when invited in."
"We fact-checked an entire Bernie Sanders speech. Here's what we found."
"Bernie Sanders ad featuring praise from Obama leaves out important context. The new Sanders ad has Obama saying "Feel the Bern" after praising Sanders' character...but the praise is from a 2006 speech and the 'Feel the Bern' is from a 2016 speech in which Obama was trying to get Sanders supporters to vote for Hillary Clinton."