{"id":185404,"date":"2021-03-01T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=185404"},"modified":"2021-03-01T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:00:26","slug":"who-was-president-a-month-ago-washpost-fact-checker-swings-at-trump-misses-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-was-president-a-month-ago-washpost-fact-checker-swings-at-trump-misses-badly\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Who Was President A Month Ago?\u2019 WashPost Fact-Checker Swings At Trump, Misses Badly"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fwho-was-president-a-month-ago-washpost-fact-checker-swings-at-trump-misses-badly%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=185404&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\/2021\/03\/biden-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Talk about striking out.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Kessler, who works at The Washington Post as a political fact-checker, took a swipe on Sunday at former President Donald Trump, who had just delivered a stem-winder of a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida. In his hour-plus address, Trump at one point blasted President Joe Biden for continued school closings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump complaining about kids not back in schools yet. Who was president a month ago?\u201d Kessler wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump complaining about kids not back in schools yet. Who was president a month ago?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennKesslerWP\/status\/1366149696687857667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post was retweeted more than 4,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>But, uh, Biden was president a month ago. In fact, he had been president for 40 days when Kessler posted his tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Twitterers teed off, pointing out that a month before Trump\u2019s speech was January 28, eight days after Biden took office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFact check: today is Feb. 28th. a month ago was Jan. 28th. Joe Biden was sworn in to office on Jan. 20th. So, Joe Biden was president a month ago,\u201d wrote one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fact check: today is Feb. 28th. a month ago was Jan. 28th. Joe Biden was sworn in to office on Jan. 20th. So, Joe Biden was president a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u270d\ud83c\udffcnominated\u270d\ud83c\udffcfor\u270d\ud83c\udffcthe\u270d\ud83c\udffcList\u270d\ud83c\udffc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RSKMCzBnCZ\">pic.twitter.com\/RSKMCzBnCZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Siraj Hashmi in Gitmo (@SirajAHashmi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SirajAHashmi\/status\/1366156120088326149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mVespa1\/status\/1366174048410095621\">Wrote<\/a> another: \u201cThat would be Joe Biden, Glenn. Need ice for that boomerang hit?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho will fact-check the fact checkers in post-America when there\u2019s only the Official Narrative on social media and everywhere else?\u201d wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhweingarten\/status\/1366178880164409346\">another<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Others hit Biden over the COVID-19 vaccine. \u201cHe is also taking credit for the vaccines which were able to hurry up based on 20 years of research into a new way of producing them. It fell in his lap and then he developed no plan to get the vaccine out there to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He is also taking credit for the vaccines which were able to hurry up based on 20 years of research into a new way of producing them. It fell in his lap and then he developed no plan to get the vaccine out there to people<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael McAleer (@Michael83695414) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Michael83695414\/status\/1366151093500186627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another said Biden was president a month ago, but \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">rather than focus on America\u2019s children he decided to bomb Syria\u2019s children instead!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Said still <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejtlewis\/status\/1366197143720067073\">another<\/a>: \u201cThe best part about this tweet is this guy is literally a professional \u2018fact checker,&#8217;\u201d adding a face with tears of joy emoji.<\/p>\n<p>Since last summer, Trump has been calling for schools to reopen. At CPAC, the former president blasted Biden for failing to pressure powerful teachers unions, whose members contribute millions of dollars to, and regularly vote for, Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden has shamefully betrayed America\u2019s youth and he is cruelly keeping our children locked in their homes, no reason for it whatsoever,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that elderly people and those with other health issues are far more vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus than children, and CDC guidelines state that schools can safely reopen without vaccinated teachers, but the Biden administration has so far not demanded their reopening.<\/p>\n<p>Kessler kept track throughout Trump\u2019s term of everything his team deemed \u201cfalse and misleading statements, arriving at a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/politics\/trump-claims-database\/\">30,573<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But according to a new report, the Post team won\u2019t be keeping score on Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s departure also equals an end to having a false claims project for the current president, as The Post said it does \u2018not have plans to launch a Biden database at this time,\u2019\u201d the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/20\/washington-post-fact-checkers-end-donald-trump-project-no-plans-joe-biden-false-claims\/\">Daily Caller<\/a> wrote four days after Biden took office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe database of Trump claims was started a month after Trump became president as a way to not overwhelm our fact-checking enterprise, where the core mission is to explain complex policy issues,\u201d director of communications Shani George told the Caller. \u201cWhile we do not have plans to launch a Biden database at this time, we will continue to dig into the accuracy of statements by political figures of all party affiliations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/washington-post-fact-checkers-wont-count-false-biden-claims-assume-hell-be-like-obama\">Washington Post \u2018Fact Checkers\u2019 Won\u2019t Count False Biden Claims; \u2018Assume\u2019 He\u2019ll Be Like\u00a0Obama<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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