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Fact check: Biden makes false and misleading claims during Pennsylvania campaign swing
CNN ^ | 04/19/2024 | Daniel Dale

Posted on 04/19/2024 6:50:54 PM PDT by sopo

President Joe Biden spent three days this week campaigning in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. He littered his remarks with false and misleading claims on subjects ranging from his annual earnings to his cap on seniors’ prescription drug spending to the demographics of China to the frequency of his past travel to Iraq and Afghanistan.

And in Biden’s most eyebrow-raising remarks of the campaign swing, he told and then retold a story in which he strongly suggested his late uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, was eaten by cannibals after his plane was shot down while he fought in World War II. Biden’s dramatic details don’t match the Defense Department’s official account of the plane crash.

Here is a fact check of eight of Biden’s Pennsylvania remarks.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: biden; lies
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CNN probably just squeezed this out of the tube as it emerged the 12 "fair" jurors get their news from CNN-- "See we are fair and balanced." Friday night, too.
1 posted on 04/19/2024 6:50:54 PM PDT by sopo
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FTA——In the same Tuesday speech in Scranton, Biden repeated his usual promise that nobody making less than $400,000 per year will pay even a cent more in taxes under his proposals. He then added, “I hope you’re all able to make $400,000. I never did.”


Facts First: Biden’s “I never did” claim is false.

In fact, his presidential salary is $400,000 per year; the joint tax filings of President Biden and first lady Jill Biden showed $619,976 in income last year, $579,514 in 2022 and $610,702 in 2021.

In addition, Biden earned millions in 2017 and 2018, when, during his time as a private citizen following his vice presidency, he and Jill Biden signed a lucrative book deal and he delivered paid speeches. The Bidens’ joint tax filings showed a total of about $11 million in 2017 income and about $4.6 million in 2018 income.

Biden, who was a US senator for 36 years prior to his vice presidency, did regularly earn less than $400,000 per year before 2017. As PolitiFact has previously noted, the Bidens’ joint filings reported less than $400,000 in income in each year from 1998 through 2016 except for 2013, when they were just over $407,000.


2 posted on 04/19/2024 6:55:43 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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3 posted on 04/19/2024 6:58:03 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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I hate that this arsehole is wandering around in my state.


4 posted on 04/19/2024 6:58:06 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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Brandon spread misinformation ?


5 posted on 04/19/2024 6:59:12 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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CNN - just like the broken clock or the blind squirrel…must be a ploy to increase their audience share from zero!


6 posted on 04/19/2024 7:00:02 PM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: Liz

AS Joe dared to say on stage at the 2020 debate, “character is on the ballot” —character lost.


7 posted on 04/19/2024 7:04:11 PM PDT by sopo
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To: Liz

But they say nothing about Biden’s nonsense and lies.


8 posted on 04/19/2024 7:27:12 PM PDT by californian by choice
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This is probably the kind of stuff that gets accepted at face value by his most ardent supporters. Have you ever seen some of their memes on social media? This one made the rounds during the Trump administration. Apparently, if a quadruple-exposure of the rotation of the Big Dipper around Polaris is made at each equinox and solstice, it forms a swastika. I guess that might be where the ancient symbol comes from, but the people who posted it (including an acquaintance of mine) devoutly believed it to be a sign from the heavens of what a big Nazi Trump is.


9 posted on 04/19/2024 7:31:10 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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He’s, Trump, he’s Trump, he’s Trump, he’s in there heads.


10 posted on 04/19/2024 7:34:57 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: sopo

CNN speaking truth is what’s ‘news’ here.


11 posted on 04/19/2024 7:35:19 PM PDT by GOPJ (Two items Biden finds at 'Ice Cream Shoppes'? A: Ice cream cones and 7 year old girls to look at...)
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CNN’s content squeezes out alright. Just not from the tube.
🧻🚽


12 posted on 04/19/2024 7:43:18 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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Even though it’s been doing the same for thousands of years, even during both Obama administratrations and now Biden? They are the science party , aren’t they? “It’s the science.”


13 posted on 04/19/2024 7:45:21 PM PDT by sopo
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A regular bunch of Einsteins.


14 posted on 04/19/2024 7:55:41 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: sopo

Today’s Biden Blatherings.


15 posted on 04/19/2024 8:00:53 PM PDT by lee martell
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Teetered up to the lectern, lied his ass off, and led away by handlers.


16 posted on 04/19/2024 8:04:56 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

17 posted on 04/19/2024 8:08:44 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Biden is a demented sociopathic liar at this point he beleives even lies about his family are true.


18 posted on 04/19/2024 8:09:39 PM PDT by coalminersson (since )
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So that means Biden is a liar, right? When will they start keeping a list like they did for Trump then?


19 posted on 04/19/2024 8:09:56 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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20 posted on 04/19/2024 11:19:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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