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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Claims ‘More Than 200 Mass Shootings in 2023’

Facts And Fact Checking, Donald Trump, CNN Bias, 2020 Election, Joe Biden
Posted on AllSides May 11th, 2023
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CLAIM: During CNN’s Wednesday town hall with Donald Trump, moderator Kaitlan Collins claimed there have been “more than 200 mass shootings in 2023.”

VERDICT: False, as long as one adheres to the standard definition of a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more individuals were killed by one attacker in one incident.

On May 7, 2023, Breitbart News noted that President Joe Biden made the same claim as Collins, and on May 8, 2023, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeated it.

Such claims have become popular with the left because...

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