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Fact checking President Joe Biden’s State of the Union
CNN ^ | 03/08/2024 | CNN Staff

Posted on 03/08/2024 6:33:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

CNN — President Joe Biden delivered his annual State of the Union address on Thursday. His statements were mostly accurate, a CNN fact check found, but he also made a smattering of claims that were false, misleading or lacking key context.

Biden repeated his familiar misleading boast about how he had supposedly reduced the federal budget deficit, failing to explain that the decline overwhelmingly occurred because emergency pandemic spending from President Donald Trump’s tenure expired as schedule. He falsely claimed that “not anymore” would big companies be able to pay no federal income tax, overstating the impact of the 15% corporate minimum tax he signed into law.

He misleadingly cited an alternative calculation from economists in his administration as if it was an actual federal tax rate paid by billionaires. And he left out context in discussing Covid-19 deaths, suggesting that far more deaths occurred during the Trump era than actually did.

Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama made few specific assertions of fact during her official Republican response to Biden’s address. But Britt did falsely say, in present tense, that inflation is at a 40-year low; it no longer is.

Here is a fact check of these claims and others.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: biden; california; clintonnonnews; cnn; factchecking; nancypelosi; president; stateoftheunion
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To: CatOwner

No- he made ,odds of false claims about what Trump did and wants to do as well as loads of lies about what he, obiden, has and is doing.

It was a typical liberal lie‐fest with lots of yelling, then whispering, then yelling again, all at the speed of sound as he did his little speed reading teleprompter marathon of lies.


41 posted on 03/08/2024 7:42:07 AM PST by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Robert Hur got fact checked. The laughing hyena CNN anchors should keep in mind that Hur said Biden would present to jury as an elderly ( true), well-meaning ( false , should be “mean’ rather than well-meaning) who has trouble with his memory( when he wants to ?).Hur was the umpire that got sand kicked in s eyes. The focus politically should be on his lying , going back to Neil Kinnock, standing on stage at debate in 2020 “ character is on the ballot, the only guy that made money on China is this guy (Trump).” The gold star families continually told his son was killed in Iraq, etc., etc.”


42 posted on 03/08/2024 7:53:26 AM PST by sopo
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To: wiseprince

[[He didnt look feeble and I think that was the goal]]

Yes that absolutely was the goal- while he is truly feeble, he can still read a teleprompter, and that is what his handlers counted on- he was very likely pumped full of some kind of uppers (my guess is meth), or as one person,suggested, given a remotely controlled Pic line of a drug.

The proof seems to have been that he would start to fade, then all of a,sudden he would speed read again, while yelling, and act8ng angry and “tough”, then he would fade again, then another burst of energy- over,and over.

His speed reading was typical of someone hopped up on uppers of some kind, stimulants

The objective was to make it seem like he was “full, of energy, and able to go any length of time needed” and “to look tough, a d not physically compromised” like he has for 3 years now- it was,to assure the left that he is still capable and ease their fears that were caused by watching him deteriorate over the 3 years.

I su8spect that he will get a boost in ratings over this, as the xheeple will have had their fears calmed a bit- but the reality is that it very likely was drugs that propped him up for the hour- and he still can’t deliver off the cuff responses without a teleprompter. Everyone knows the left in power are hiding the reality of his condition from the public- I jusy hope the independent and some democrat public are smart enough to,realize that.


43 posted on 03/08/2024 7:55:26 AM PST by Bob434
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To: wiseprince

I wonder what meds/dope he was on... he was speeding and not his normal self.

A urine test would have been interesting and would make Hunter jealous.


44 posted on 03/08/2024 7:58:51 AM PST by DOC44 ( )
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To: DOC44

Hunter: I’ll have what he’s having!


45 posted on 03/08/2024 8:13:07 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I think Biden provided the PERFECT campaign ad -- for the Republicans.

The scene opens with two children sitting on a bench by a playground on a sunny day.

The first kid quietly says to the other "The sky is pink."

The second kid looks at the blue sky and laughs. "The sky's not pink. It's blue."

The first kid gets in the second kid's face and screams "THE SKY IS PINK!!"

Then show clips of Biden at the SOTU screaming about how inflation is down, and he created a trillion jobs, and Trump left office with a horrible economy.

46 posted on 03/08/2024 8:14:22 AM PST by HandBasketHell
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How do you Fact Check fiction?


47 posted on 03/08/2024 8:15:20 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“everything he said was bullsh**” Victoria Sparks representative from Indiana


48 posted on 03/08/2024 8:16:07 AM PST by cableguymn
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To: CatOwner

I suffered through it with the help of Louder With Crowders humor.

He was fuller than his depends.


49 posted on 03/08/2024 8:17:08 AM PST by cableguymn
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Coming from CNN this analysis is scathing rebuke of Biden’s SOTU speech. I am shocked that CNN actually looked at facts for a change and committed a small act of actual journalism


50 posted on 03/08/2024 8:17:47 AM PST by The Great RJ ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

... t’was easier to count the truths than the lies.

So much bull-shiite in 67 minutes.


51 posted on 03/08/2024 8:47:03 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: butlerweave

Nope. that is his nickname.


52 posted on 03/08/2024 9:28:47 AM PST by cableguymn
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To: ChicagoConservative27

5 words:

WRONG FROM FRONT TO BACK


53 posted on 03/08/2024 10:40:38 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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