CNN fact-check: Trump’s South Korea tale is not true in any part

CNN’s fact-check finds every element of Trump’s South Korea story false: South Korea has long paid toward the U.S. military presence under cost-sharing deals dating back to 1991, and Trump did not secure $3 billion per year or two subsequent increases. Post‑2019 talks stalled; Biden’s administration later signed new bilateral agreements in 2021 and 2024 that raised Seoul’s contributions. The claim that the 2020 election was rigged is false, and Biden did not rescind any Trump cost-sharing order. Pentagon figures show about 26,589 U.S. troops in South Korea, not 39,000.