During Poppy Harlow’s Wednesday show, CNN Newsroom, the anchor took the time to fact check some of President Trump’s tweets from that morning. However, Harlow stopped the buck halfway on one of the tweets, choosing to ignore a valid comparison to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.

Trump made the claim that violating campaign finance law is not a crime. Which is, in fact, false. He then continued to draw a comparison to a $375,000 settlement between the FEC and the Obama campaign. The settlement that was paid in 2013 was penance for concealing donors during the 2008 presidential election. Instead of doing their due diligence and fact checking the entire Trump tweet, CNN moved on quickly to continue pushing the story about former Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen:

“And then the president wrongly claimed this -- quote -- "Michael Cohen pled guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime." They are a crime. This one day Cohen pleaded guilty to eight felony counts, including campaign violations, saying then-candidate Trump, just before the election directed him to pay off a porn star and a former playboy playmate to influence the election. The White House strategy this morning -- paint Cohen as a liar.”

The settlement Obama had to pay in 2013 was a massive fine. Jason Torchinsky, an election lawyer for the Republicans, said: “it may [be] one of their top five- or ten- largest fines.” In fact, the $375,000 fine is larger than the two alleged settlements Trump may have paid to two separate women. CNN is selectively checking facts on Trump in order to further their Cohen narrative against the president.

Read a transcript from the August 22 intro below: