J Anthony wrote:
Maybe so, but is it any better to believe anything Trump says? I think not.
President Joe Biden’s endless stream of lies
Last week, President Biden gave a speech on the state of the American economy. He evidently kept the fact-checkers at CNN busy.
Among the examples singled out by CNN’s Daniel Dale was President Biden’s claim that “Last year, we funded 700,000 major construction projects — 700,000 all across America. From highways to airports to bridges to tunnels to broadband.”
Calling this claim “wildly inaccurate,” Dale notes the president added two extra zeros to the correct number.
Biden also touted a $2,000 annual cap on prescription drugs for Medicare recipients, “now in effect,” recipients that won’t come into effect for another two years.
Biden also took a shot at President Donald Trump by falsely asserting that only 3.5 million Americans “even had their first [COVID] vaccination, because the other guy and the other team didn’t think it mattered a whole lot.”
In fact, by the time Trump left office in January 2021, 19 million Americans had received their first vaccine.
As a sidebar, it’s particularly ironic that President Biden would take shots at President Trump over the COVID vaccine given that both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris contributed to vaccine skepticism.
In September 2020, the Washington Post reported that then-candidate Biden, “expressed reservations about whether a coronavirus vaccine approved by the Trump administration would be safe, raising doubts about the president’s ability to put the health of Americans before politics.”
Back to the speech last Thursday, Biden also falsely asserted that America’s billionaires “pay virtually only 3% of their income now – 3%, they pay” in taxes.
Afterward, the White House revised the figure to 8%, though that, too, is misleadingly citing a figure counting unrealized capital gains.
Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, is quoted by CNN as saying the figures are “way too low,” citing a 2019 paper by UC Berkeley economists indicating that the top 400 households in the country paid an effective tax rate of 23%.
With the president now under the microscope for his hypocritical mishandling of classified documents, it is essential that the American people scrutinize his words. No politician, regardless of party or who their political opponents are, should go without that sort of scrutiny.
https://www.dailynews.com/2023/02/01/president-joe-bidens-endless-stream-of-lies/Washington Post fact-check blasts Biden with ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’ rating
https://nypost.com/2022/11/07/washington-post-rates-biden-with-bottomless-pinocchio/It's time for Biden to 'get honest' after being awarded 'bottomless' Pinocchios
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/stuart-varney-its-time-for-biden-to-get-honest-after-being-awarded-bottomless-pinocchioWhy Biden Lies
Joe Biden’s tale last week about being at Ground Zero the day after September 11 put an understandable focus on his endless false and exaggerated stories about himself.
The president even got an extensive, excoriating fact-check from CNN, not usually known for humiliating Democratic politicians.
The best piece I’ve seen on Biden’s lies is this excellent Noah Rothman piece on how to know Biden is lying.
But I wanted to take a different tack.
I was on Megyn Kelly’s podcast the other day, and we discussed briefly the question of why Joe Biden lies so much, which got me considering the question more carefully.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/09/why-biden-lies/