{"id":1438077,"date":"2022-04-14T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438077"},"modified":"2022-04-14T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:31:00","slug":"five-fibs-president-biden-cant-stop-telling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-fibs-president-biden-cant-stop-telling\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Fibs President Biden Can\u2019t Stop Telling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffive-fibs-president-biden-cant-stop-telling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438077&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Untitled-design-22-copy-2-5.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden has generated a growing list of \u201cfibs\u201d during his first term in the Oval Office, including some tall tales so far-fetched that even the most liberal fact-checking investigations have flagged his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Among the president\u2019s remarks are at least five fibs that Biden can\u2019t stop telling.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cOur policies are working\u2026 Record job creation.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>One of the president\u2019s most recent fibs came across as an April Fool\u2019s Day joke, especially as it was delivered during remarks given on April 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur policies are working. And we\u2019re getting results for the American people \u2014 which is what it\u2019s all about, to state the obvious,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/04\/01\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-march-jobs-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecord job creation. Record unemployment declines. Record wage gains,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post was quick to push back on Biden\u2019s April Fool\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing could be further from the truth,\u201d the Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/01\/biden-wants-you-to-believe-hes-creating-jobs-despite-whats-happened\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNominal wage gains since Biden took office have been wiped out by\u00a0sky-high inflation,\u00a0now around 8%. All jobs now come with a built-in pay cut that\u2019s only going to get worse unless the prez changes course. Worse, employment will crater if he\u00a0gets the tax hikes he proposes,\u201d it continued. \u201cAnd he and his administration have not\u00a0<em>created<\/em> a single job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nation had 152.5 million non-farm jobs in February 2020 (pre-Covid). The latest number is 150.9 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In other words, the number of jobs is still below the level of the non-farm labor force prior to the pandemic, though it is admittedly higher than during the nation\u2019s lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The words sounded positive, but Biden\u2019s economy fibs are among his most common \u2014 and most inaccurate.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cI\u2019ve been in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan 40 times.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Biden has also repeatedly fibbed about his travels, especially his time in Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>During his first State of the Union Address, for example, the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/03\/02\/remarks-by-president-biden-in-state-of-the-union-address\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019ve been in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan over 40 times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2019 as a presidential candidate, Biden said he had been to the two nations \u201cover 30 times.\u201d The Washington Post later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/as-he-campaigns-for-president-joe-biden-tells-a-moving-but-false-war-story\/2019\/08\/29\/b5159676-c9aa-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> his campaign clarified the correct number was 21, which mostly occurred when he was a senator between 1973 and 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has not been to either nation in several years.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cI got arrested protesting for civil rights.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Biden has also claimed he was arrested for protesting for civil rights. Mentioned on multiple occasions, Biden most recently made the remark during a speech in Georgia as he addressed voting rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not walk in the shoes of generations of students who walked these grounds,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/01\/11\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-protecting-the-right-to-vote\/\">he said<\/a>. \u201cBut I walked other grounds. Because I\u2019m so damn old, I was there as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The joke received laughter from his audience, with Biden adding, \u201cYou think I\u2019m kidding, man. It seems like yesterday the first time I got arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Fact-checking organization Politifact investigated the remarks and concluded that no evidence existed of Biden being arrested over civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe reached out to the White House to clarify what arrest he was referring to, and they pointed to excerpts from three speeches Biden has made in recent years. They addressed an incident in Delaware in the 1950s in which people gathered to protest the sale of a home to a Black couple,\u201d Politifact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2022\/jan\/13\/joe-biden\/evidence-scant-joe-biden-was-arrested-protesting-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice were called to the home as hundreds of people protested outside. There were a few arrests, but no evidence that Biden was among them,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cI\u2019ve been against the war in Afghanistan from the very beginning.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Afghanistan has served as one of Biden\u2019s biggest weaknesses during his term as president. In December, the president claimed that he had been against the war in Afghanistan \u201cfrom the very beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been against that war in Afghanistan from the very beginning,\u201d Biden told Rita Braver during a CBS\u2019 \u201cSunday Morning\u201d interview in December. \u201cWe\u2019re spending $300 million a week in Afghanistan over 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The facts tell a different story. In 2001, Biden voted with every other voting senator to support the Authorization for Use of Military Force bill after the attacks of 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>As vice president under then-President Barack Obama in 2009, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/06\/world\/asia\/06reconstruct.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">additional troops<\/a> were sent to Afghanistan. Though there was some reported discussion against increased troops, Biden remained on board with America\u2019s military presence in Iraq during his time serving under Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Politifact\u2019s investigation of the claim noted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?ref=watch_permalink&#038;v=546806782841484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earliest claim<\/a> it could cite of Biden speaking against a military presence in Afghanistan was in 2019.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cI used to drive a tractor-trailer.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>A fifth fib repeated by Biden is his claim to be a former truck driver.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the president traveled to Dakota County Technical College in Minnesota to emphasize his $1.2 trillion infrastructure package.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to drive a tractor-trailer, so I know a little bit about driving big trucks,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/grabien.com\/getmedia.php?id=1394519&#038;key=15b7f2c67c0e6489052b6e69ed94950a&#038;userid=17087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2021, Biden also said, \u201cI used to drive an 18-wheeler.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Last July while visiting the Mack Truck manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania, Biden claimed \u201cI used to drive an 18-wheeler\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s staff later admitted that he had only ever been photographed in one <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PVr3xQnKhI\">pic.twitter.com\/PVr3xQnKhI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1511048834645958662?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this month, Biden again repeated the tall tale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to drive a truck. It\u2019s a long story.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden repeats false claim he used to be a truck driver <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8V95O265IW\">pic.twitter.com\/8V95O265IW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1511047578049298440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If Biden did drive an 18-wheeler, we\u2019d love to see the video footage or a picture. Fact-checkers have sought the evidence, but so far the claim remains at the four-Pinnochio level.<\/p>\n<p>There are more, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/in-the-know\/543616-biden-defends-his-dog-major-did-not-bite-someone-and-penetrate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">such as<\/a>, \u201cMajor [the First Dog] did not bite someone and penetrate the skin,\u201d as the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/13\/secret-service-agents-outraged-by-white-house-spin-over-first-dog-bites-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigated<\/a>, or on a more humorous note, \u201cYou couldn\u2019t buy a cannon, when, in fact, the Second Amendment was passed,\u201d (federal gun laws came much later). These five fibs, however, show Biden\u2019s habit of telling tall tales has served as a regular part of his rhetoric as president.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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