Daniel Dale

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

Dale was born to a Jewish family, the son of Ronald Dale and Jennifer 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 cancelled 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."

Dale's awards and honors include:

• National Newspaper Award: Norman Webster Award for International Reporting (2019)
• National Newspaper Award: Short Feature (2011)
• Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prize (2011)
• Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prize (2010)
• The National Newspaper Award: Short Feature (2011); the Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prize (2011 and 2010).

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 LifeOther 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 DeconstructedDaniel W. Drezner, writing in the Washington Post extensively quoted from Dale in an article on Trump's claims on MedicareDale now writes a regular "Facts First" column in CNN Politics.

"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"

"Trump was wrong when he tweeted this morning that Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff had claimed to be reading the "exact" transcript of his call with Ukraine, then didn't. But Schiff's rendition was pretty confusing: he mixed together near-quotes from Trump, his own analysis of what Trump said, and stuff that just wasn't there, which he later described as "parody."