CNN host Jake Tapper Jacob (Jake) Paul TapperThe media's misleading use of COVID-19 data Julia Louis-Dreyfus: 'We can't spend much time grieving' Ginsburg Pence aide dismisses concerns rushed vote on Trump nominee will hurt vulnerable senators MORE on Wednesday fact-checked what he called "lies" and "flat-out misleading" statistics displayed on a sign President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE used to complement his criticism of Democrats and special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE's investigation.

"We’re going to fact-check the sign he brought to today’s Rose Garden rant," Tapper said on his daily CNN program before diving into Trump's talking points about Mueller's probe into Russian interference.

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Tapper began by calling out the statistic that the special counsel's team spent more than $35 million throughout the course of the 22-month investigation. The host noted that it's not clear where Trump gathered that figure, but that the Justice Department said that Mueller's expenses were around $12 million by September 2018.

"The final price tag will no doubt be higher than that, but the data's not public. Where he got $35 million, no idea," Tapper said.

He then targeted the claim that the investigation was led by "18 angry Democrats," noting that Mueller hired 19 lawyers and that Mueller himself is a "well-known Republican," as well as former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Rod RosensteinDOJ kept investigators from completing probe of Trump ties to Russia: report Five takeaways from final Senate Intel Russia report FBI officials hid copies of Russia probe documents fearing Trump interference: book MORE. Rosenstein appointed Mueller and oversaw the investigation.

Tapper acknowledges that Trump is correct about length of the investigation, the amount of subpoenas issued and the number of witnesses involved.

But he takes issue with the poster's inclusion of the statements, "No Collusion" and "No Obstruction." Tapper notes that while Mueller did not find sufficient evidence to conclude a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Moscow took place, it did identify numerous links between the two.

"Mueller specifically said that collusion was not a legal term and the report was not going to address it all," Tapper said, going on to note that Mueller made no conclusive determination regarding obstruction of justice.

"And if you read the report, Mueller in detail describes at least 10 instances which may have constituted obstruction. And Mueller clearly leaves it up to Congress to proceed," he said.

"There was a time in the Trump administration when his people would try to either explain his falsehoods as somehow in the neighborhood of something possibly accurate, or they would just change the subject," Tapper continues.

"But there has been a long slow slide into just taking his lies and asserting them to you. You are paying for those lies."

Trump has continually railed against Mueller's probe, and on Wednesday used a placard describing facts from it to complement his criticism. The placard stood in front of Trump as he threatened to block infrastructure talks until Democrats' investigations into him finished.