Posted on 11/14/2022 7:29:17 AM PST by SJackson
During Donald Trump’s presidency, The Washington Post kept a running tally of his alleged lies and/or misleading statements. But, when Joe Biden became president, the Post fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, announced an end to the database operation, saying: “Maintaining the Trump database over four years required about 400 additional 8-hour days over four years beyond our regular jobs for three people.” Looks like supply-chain issues at the Post.
So, while the Post continues to fact-check Biden, it discontinued the Trump-era practice of running the tote board because, after all, Biden is not Trump, and the Post undoubtedly expects Biden to be more truthful.
How’s that working out?
Recently Post fact-checker Kessler wrote: “President Biden is a self-described ‘gaffe machine.’ That’s no excuse, of course, for a president making false or misleading statements. Readers have asked for fact checks of a variety of recent Biden statements, but none of them seemed big enough for a stand-alone fact check.” Really?
Set aside Biden’s decades of falsely claiming, as he did again during the 2020 campaign, that he “was raised in the black church” where, as a teenager, he would meet on Sundays to strategize how to “desegregate movie theaters and restaurants” in Wilmington, Delaware. The New York Times found no evidence of any Biden desegregation activity and congregants of the black church he supposedly attended did not recall seeing Biden there.
Then there is Biden’s decadeslong claim that he and former United Nations Ambassador and Rep. Andrew Young were “arrested” in apartheid South Africa while attempting to visit the imprisoned Nelson Mandela. Young said it never happened.
Biden, on two occasions, publicly and falsely claimed the truck driver who struck and killed his first wife and young daughter was drunk at the time. But he wasn’t, and the claims brought much dismay to the driver and his family.
As to the precipitous and disastrous pullout from Afghanistan, Biden claimed that no one advised him against it, a claim refuted by two top generals who insisted, under oath, that they advised Biden against the move.
On at least two occasions Biden claimed that his son, Beau, died in Iraq. Biden’s son, a military veteran who served in Iraq, died of brain cancer six years after returning home.
In late October, Biden said: “The most common price of gas in America is $3.39. Down from over $5 when I took office.” Two problems. When Biden took office the average price of gas was $2.39, and AAA says the average price on the day he made that statement was $3.76, 37 cents more than asserted by Biden. For good measure, the following day Biden said, “Since the elections, we’ve been — we’re taking gas prices down from where they were.” Given the importance of gas prices, a concern that many voters put at the top of their list, do Biden’s back-to-back gas claims amount to a gaffe or a blatant lie based on the expectation of more lenient media by Biden compared to Trump?
What of Biden’s recent characterization of his student debt forgiveness program, via executive order, that the Congressional Budget Office estimates will cost $400 billion? Biden, during an online discussion with progressive organization NowThis News, also in late October, said: “It’s passed. I got it passed by a vote or two, and it’s in effect.” Except he signed an executive order, currently under challenge and blocked by a federal appeals court. No Congress, no votes, and not in effect.
After Trump’s election, Democrats and the media raised such concerns about Trump’s mental capacity, that the president undertook a cognitive test. Trump then allowed the White House doctor to answer questions from reporters for a full hour, during which the doctor said Trump registered a “perfect” score. It does not appear that Biden undertook the same cognitive test. But despite Biden’s frequent displays of confusion, neither the Democrats nor the media care much about the mental acuity of a Commander-in-Chief not named Trump.
What a difference an administration makes.
Biden’s got a case on himself.......loves the sound of his own voice
....never more gaffe-happy than when he’s holding a microphone.
Trump EXAGGERATES, the FJB lies...
But Biden thinks his lies work great. He just took a bow for the midterm outcome.
Biden claimed in a televised debate that 150,000,000 Americans died from guns since the expiration of the ‘Assault-Weapons’ ban in 2004. No one ‘fact checked’ him on this obvious lie.
“So, while the Post continues to fact-check Biden, it discontinued the Trump-era practice of running the tote board”
Typical.
When Bush was in office, the left had their tote boards as to how many troops we lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. When Obama got in office, those tote boards came down even though we lost more troops in obamas first 4 years in office than we did in all 8 years under Bush.
Under Trump during the covid pandemic, some leftist put up a tote board in New Yorks time Square that kept count of how many people had died of covid. When Biden got in office, the tote board was brought down.
Re: 7 - There was a professor at a college nearby that kept a running total of the dead in his exterior window. He took it down once President Obama was elected. He got roasted by quite a few students (and faculty/staff!) in the student newspaper for using military deaths as a prop in his dislike of President Bush.
Who’s son made shady deals with China and many other countries and millions passed hands.
The FIB has records of it that set in a closet some place Joe’s income increased by at least 13 million after becoming V.P.
What a difference an administration makes.
That’s only about HALF of us!
Under Trump during the covid pandemic, some leftist put up a tote board in New Yorks time Square that kept count of how many people had died of covid.
That’s only about HALF of us!
1. Paul (The Swamp) Ryan backs DeSantis.
2. Ken Griffin is in negotiations with DeSantis. DeSantis will be owned, unlike Trump.
3. Look at what Trump accomplished:
Gas price per gallon was about $2.30;
Inflation about 1.4%, mortgage rates were half of what they are now;
Unemployment was low before Covid and before Blue Governors shut everything
down and we were in the midst of a V-shape recovery until January 22, 2021;
Tax decrease; tax laws promoted small businesses as well as large;
US enjoyed energy independence - No Green Agenda, no war on energy, No Paris Treaty;
No war in Ukraine, no threat of nuclear war, NATO paid its way;
Little Rocket Man stopped playing with his toys;
China was quiet and we were winning the trade war;
Last 18 mos. In Afghanistan, not one Trooper was lost and the Taliban behaved;
ISIS was defeated.
US companies were bringing home the jobs due to well executed tax treatments;
Peace in the Middle East aka Abraham Accords; US Embassy moved to Jerusalem; and Iran was isolated.
Got three non-left “I don't know what a woman is” Supreme Court Justices on the bench allowing Roe vs Wade to be overturned.
Who the heck can accomplish the above in four years while being impeached twice and investigated by Obama's Weaponized Agencies?
When he said this
“we have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics”
it was the truth
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