The Washington Post kept a running list of Donald Trump’s alleged lies and/or misleading statements during his presidency. Glenn Kessler, the Post’s fact-checker, announced that the database was being shut down after Joe Biden was elected president. He said: “Maintaining Trump’s database over four year required about 400 additional 8-hour day over four years beyond our regular jobs of three people.” This seems to be a supply-chain issue at the Post.
The Post continues fact-checking Biden, but it has ended the Trump-era practice that ran the tote board. Biden isn’t Trump, and the Post expects Biden will be more truthful.
How does that work out?
Recently, Kessler, a Post fact-checker, wrote that President Biden is a self-described “gaffe machine”. This is no excuse for a president to make misleading or false statements. Readers requested fact checks on a variety Biden statements. However, none of them seemed large enough to warrant a separate fact check.
Biden’s decades-long history of falsely claiming that he was “raised in the black church,” as he claimed again during the 2020 campaign. As a teenager, Biden would meet on Sundays in Wilmington to plan how to “desegregate” restaurants and movie theaters in Delaware. The New York Times did not find any evidence of Biden’s desegregation activities and the black church members he supposedly attended didn’t recall Biden there.
Biden has claimed for decades that he and former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young were “arrested in apartheid South Africa” while trying to visit Nelson Mandela, who is currently in prison. Young claimed it never happened.
Biden falsely claimed that the truck driver who hit and killed his first wife, and his young daughter, was drunk on two occasions. The claims were false and caused much dismay for the driver and his family.
Biden claimed that no one had advised him against pulling out of Afghanistan. This claim was refuted by two top generals, who under oath said that they advised Biden against this move.
Biden claimed on at least two occasions that Beau, his son, had died in Iraq. Biden’s son Beau, a veteran of the military who served in Iraqi, died six years after he returned home from Iraq.
Biden stated in October that the most common gas price in America was $3.39. Two problems. Two problems. Biden stated the following day, “Since elections, we have been — we are taking gas prices down form where they were.” Does this mean that Biden’s back to back gas claims are a gaffe? Or a blatant lie, given the expectation of more lenient media from Biden than Trump?
Biden’s recent executive order describing his student debt forgiveness program as “passed” by the Congressional Budget Office, which is estimated to cost $400 billion. During an online conversation with NowThis News in late October, Biden stated that it had been passed. It was passed by a few votes, and it’s now in effect.” But he signed an executive directive, which is currently being challenged and blocked by a federal appeals judge. No Congress, no votes, it’s not in effect.
Democrats and the media raised concerns about Trump’s mental abilities after his election. The president took a cognitive test to determine this. Trump allowed the White House doctor answer questions from reporters for an hour. During that time, Trump received a “perfect” score. Biden did not appear to have taken the same cognitive test. Despite Biden’s confusion and frequent display of confusion, neither the Democrats or the media are concerned about Trump’s mental ability.
It is amazing what an administration can do for your organization.
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