President Biden has faced criticism following a CNN interview that featured a plethora of false statements. Reports indicate that Biden touted 15 falsehoods during the interview, which didn’t even last 20 minutes, meaning the president roughly told a lie every minute.
The litany of fact-checks occurred after Biden recently sat down with CNN’s Erin Burnett, where he made false claims about everything from the economy to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. “While the chairman would know that during his 17-minute interview on CNN fact-checkers say the President Biden told 15 lies. That’s one lie every 68 seconds, a pace that might even give Geppetto pause,” Fox News’s Trace Gallagher commented on the interview.
Many of Biden’s dubious and false claims were centered around the economy, where his campaign is battling pessimistic sentiment from the American public. For example, Biden suggested to Burnett that he had created 15 million jobs since he took office. Reports indicate that his claim has been heavily fact-checked, but Biden insists on repeating it.
Furthermore, Burnett confronted Biden with troubling statistics for American consumers, showing the American Dream is becoming unattainable. She explained that the cost of purchasing a home has nearly doubled and “real income when you account for inflation is actually down since you took office.” Biden’s response was outright denial.
Many have criticized CNN for not pushing back on Biden’s claims, seemingly allowing him to make these misleading statements to the network’s audience without consequence. Gallagher called out a number of allegedly false narratives that the left-leaning network has propagated over the years, insinuating CNN is no stranger to falsehood.
The Fox News host said, “But then again, isn’t CNN the network that prides itself on the truth? Isn’t CNN the network that won’t carry a speech live by former President Trump because of his quote, misleading claims misleading? CNN relishes misleading? Russian collusion? Bounty gate Brett Kavanaugh Covington Catholic kids laptops replete with Russian disinformation.”
One of the most egregious lies Biden told during the interview pertained to his claims about Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation readings when he came into office. According to the president, inflation was 9% when he began his term. This is blatantly false, as CPI didn’t peak at over 9% until well into his presidency in June 2022. The reading was actually at 1.4% when Trump handed the White House to Biden.
“Common sense his favorite fib. Is Biden saying that when he came into office inflation was at 9%. It was actually 1.4% but who’s counting,” Gallagher commented during his segment. Former President Donald Trump also called out the Biden claim, blasting its inauthenticity.
Trump stated, “So I just want to mention right here, Biden made a claim that inflation under Trump was 9% and what it was it was a tiny fraction was 1.4%. And actually going down, we had essentially almost no inflation, but we had a 9% inflation and that’s a fake number because not everything was included with that. If you add it all up, I think it’s a 50% inflation tax. I call it the Biden inflation test. So he lies and he lies about everything including his golf game, because he can’t hit a ball. He can’t hit 100 yards, lies about everything but he came out and I saw that this last couple of days. He was talking about the Trump inflation was no no, his inflation was 9%.”
Watch the fact-checking clip here:
Gallagher concluded his commentary on the Biden interview, suggesting the creator of Pinocchio would have been more honest during the conversation with CNN. “Common Sense thinks even Geppetto would have created a more honest model.
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