White House comes up empty when asked to prove Trump's 'sick' campaign lie

President Donald Trump has revived a debunked 2024 campaign claim that schools are secretly sending children off for gender surgery, and when CNN asked the White House for proof, it couldn’t produce a single example.At a Georgia rally Friday, Trump claimed there are “five states where your child goes off to school as Tim and comes back as Tammy, three or four days later," wrote CNN's Daniel Dale.“And you say, ‘Where’s my son? My son is in the hospital.’ Can you imagine?” Trump added. “They don’t even need approval. It’s sick. You’ll have five – I think Minnesota and some others – I think it’s five or six states.”CNN’s fact check called the claim “nonsense.” No state allows schools to send a child to a hospital for elective surgery without parental approval, and experts in gender identity care said they know of no case in which a U.S. school secretly...