(New York Post) The White House rarely allows President Biden to sit down for interviews, and Wednesday’s chat with CNN’s Erin Burnett shows why.
In a brief 17 minutes, Biden told 15 lies — nearly a lie a minute.
From whoppers about the economy to prevarications on Israel, Biden spun a Fantasyland of a presidency that voters know is false.
Here’s a rundown:
LIE 1: “I’ve created over 15 million jobs since I’ve been president.”
Biden’s favorite falsehood, told over and over and over again no matter how many fact-checks call him out.
He took office at the tail end of a pandemic that blew a hole in the economy, when lockdown policies wholeheartedly endorsed by Democrats took people out of the office and onto COVID stimulus checks.
He “created” nothing — after the introduction of the vaccine, people returned to the workforce.
If anything, Biden’s policies slowed the recovery — it took until July 2022 for the US economy to regain all the jobs lost due to the pandemic.
LIE 2: “Other than Herbert Hoover, [Donald Trump] is the only president who has lost more jobs than he created.”
The corollary lie.
Trump didn’t “lose” jobs; he was president during a global pandemic.
And liberals were thrilled to put people on government checks and shut down the world during COVID.
They cannot argue that the job market would have been any different in 2020 under a Democrat.
LIE 3: “Look at what he says he’s going to do if he gets elected. Says he’s going to do away with what I’ve done on Medicare, reducing the price of Medicare.”
There’s no basis for this, as Trump has said he “will never do anything that will hurt or jeopardize Social Security or Medicare.”
Further, Trump pursued the exact same executive orders to lower prescription drug prices as did Biden.
LIE 4: “You know we have 1,000 billionaires in America. Know what their average federal tax is? 8.3%.”
Factcheck.org notes that, “The top 0.1% of earners, with more than $4.4 million in expanded cash income, pay an average rate of 25.1% in federal income and payroll taxes.”
LIE 5: “We’ve already turned it around [on the economy].”
Burnett quoted some tough figures on the economy, noting that the cost of buying a home had doubled, and “Real income when you account for inflation is actually down since you took office.”
Biden’s response?
Denial.
LIE 6: “The polling data has been wrong all along.”
Every survey that says people are upset about the economy?
Every poll that puts Biden’s approval rating at historic lows?
They are all of them, from dozens of different sources, wrong?
LIE 7: “There’s corporate greed going out there. And it’s got to be dealt with.”
Labor costs increased 4.2% between 2023 and 2024.
They increased 5.1% from 2021 to 2022.
The cost of everything, from supplies, to shipping, to rent, to taxes, have gone up.
Why?
Because of the huge amount of government money injected into the system, minimum-wage increases by California and other states, and pent-up demand by consumers.
How is Biden going to “deal with it?”
Tell companies they can’t raise prices to avoid losing money?
