{"id":1735131,"date":"2022-11-11T08:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735131"},"modified":"2022-11-11T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:02:52","slug":"presidential-fact-checking-biden-vs-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/presidential-fact-checking-biden-vs-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Fact Checking: Biden vs. Trump"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fpresidential-fact-checking-biden-vs-trump%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=1735131&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Joe20Biden3.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>During Donald Trump\u2019s presidency, <em>The Washington Post <\/em>kept a running tally of his alleged lies and\/or misleading statements. But, when Joe Biden became president, the <em>Post <\/em>fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, announced an end to the database operation, saying: \u201cMaintaining the Trump database over four years required about 400 additional 8-hour days over four years beyond our regular jobs for three people.\u201d Looks like supply-chain issues at the <em>Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So, while the <em>Post<\/em> continues to fact-check Biden, it discontinued the Trump-era practice of running the tote board because, after all, Biden is not Trump, and the <em>Post<\/em> undoubtedly expects Biden to be more truthful.<\/p>\n<p>How\u2019s that working out?<\/p>\n<p>Recently <em>Post<\/em> fact-checker Kessler wrote: \u201cPresident Biden is a self-described \u2018gaffe machine.\u2019 That\u2019s no excuse, of course, for a president making false or misleading statements. Readers have asked for fact checks of a variety of recent Biden statements, but none of them seemed big enough for a stand-alone fact check.\u201d Really?<\/p>\n<p>Set aside Biden\u2019s decades of falsely claiming, as he did again during the 2020 campaign, that he \u201cwas raised in the black church\u201d where, as a teenager, he would meet on Sundays to strategize how to \u201cdesegregate movie theaters and restaurants\u201d in Wilmington, Delaware. The New York Times found no evidence of any Biden desegregation activity and congregants of the black church he supposedly attended did not recall seeing Biden there.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is Biden\u2019s decadeslong claim that he and former United Nations Ambassador and Rep. Andrew Young were \u201carrested\u201d in apartheid South Africa while attempting to visit the imprisoned Nelson Mandela. Young said it never happened.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, on two occasions, publicly and falsely claimed the truck driver who struck and killed his first wife and young daughter was drunk at the time. But he wasn\u2019t, and the claims brought much dismay to the driver and his family.<\/p>\n<p>As to the precipitous and disastrous pullout from Afghanistan, Biden claimed that no one advised him against it, a claim refuted by two top generals who insisted, under oath, that they advised Biden against the move.<\/p>\n<p>On at least two occasions Biden claimed that his son, Beau, died in Iraq. Biden\u2019s son, a military veteran who served in Iraq, died of brain cancer six years after returning home.<\/p>\n<p>In late October, Biden said: \u201cThe most common price of gas in America is $3.39. Down from over $5 when I took office.\u201d Two problems. When Biden took office the average price of gas was $2.39, and AAA says the average price on the day he made that statement was $3.76, 37 cents more than asserted by Biden. For good measure, the following day Biden said, \u201cSince the elections, we\u2019ve been &#8212; we\u2019re taking gas prices down from where they were.\u201d Given the importance of gas prices, a concern that many voters put at the top of their list, do Biden\u2019s back-to-back gas claims amount to a gaffe or a blatant lie based on the expectation of more lenient media by Biden compared to Trump?<\/p>\n<p>What of Biden\u2019s recent characterization of his student debt forgiveness program, via executive order, that the Congressional Budget Office estimates will cost $400 billion? Biden, during an online discussion with progressive organization NowThis News, also in late October, said: \u201cIt\u2019s passed. I got it passed by a vote or two, and it\u2019s in effect.\u201d Except he signed an executive order, currently under challenge and blocked by a federal appeals court. No Congress, no votes, and not in effect.<\/p>\n<p>After Trump\u2019s election, Democrats and the media raised such concerns about Trump\u2019s mental capacity, that the president undertook a cognitive test. Trump then allowed the White House doctor to answer questions from reporters for a full hour, during which the doctor said Trump registered a \u201cperfect\u201d score. It does not appear that Biden undertook the same cognitive test. But despite Biden\u2019s frequent displays of confusion, neither the Democrats nor the media care much about the mental acuity of a Commander-in-Chief not named Trump.<\/p>\n<p>What a difference an administration makes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Larry Elder is a best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an \u201cElderado,\u201d visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on Twitter @larryelder. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Donald Trump\u2019s presidency, The Washington Post kept a running tally of his alleged lies and\/or misleading statements. 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