{"id":2021820,"date":"2023-09-04T23:43:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T03:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-deceptively-says-us-was-losing-jobs-under-trump-before-he-came-to-office\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T23:44:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T03:44:46","slug":"biden-deceptively-says-us-was-losing-jobs-under-trump-before-he-came-to-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-deceptively-says-us-was-losing-jobs-under-trump-before-he-came-to-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden falsely claims US lost jobs under Trump prior to his presidency."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fbiden-deceptively-says-us-was-losing-jobs-under-trump-before-he-came-to-office%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=2021820&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--><h2>If President Joe Biden is known for anything, it\u2019s stretching \u2062the truth \u200c(even more than that) on a \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cancel-culture-is-ideological-not-generational\/\" title=\"Cancel Culture Is Ideological, Not Generational\">fairly regular basis<\/a>, and he was at it\u2064 again on Monday in Philadelphia.<\/h2>\n<p>During\u2062 a speech commemorating Labor\u2064 Day, \u200dBiden said, \u201cIt\u2063 wasn\u2019t that long ago we were losing jobs in this country. In fact, the guy who held this \u200djob before me was just one of two presidents in history \u2026 one of two presidents in history that left office with fewer jobs in \u200bAmerica than when he got elected office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the way, do you\u2062 know who the other one was?\u200b Herbert Hoover. Isn\u2019t that kind of coincidental?\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, but\u200d we\u2019re turning things around because \u2062of you,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>So his message was, \u200b\u201cThe economy, and particularly the jobs market, was\u2063 bad\u2064 under Donald Trump,\u2062 but I turned it \u200caround.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>False!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Biden: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that \u2063long ago we were losing jobs in this country. In fact, the guy who held this job before\u2064 me \u200dwas just one of two presidents in history [\u2026] that left office with fewer \u200cjobs in America\u2063 than when he got elected office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Biden \u2064on Monday\u2026 \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YJHPRlrGT4\">pic.twitter.com\/YJHPRlrGT4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u200dThe \u200cHill (@thehill) \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1698765805784068324?\">September \u20634, \u20632023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Biden\u2062 and the Democrats love to throw around the silly statistic\u2064 about the\u2064 nation losing jobs overall under Trump, but that, of \u200ccourse, ignores \u200bthe impact of \u2062the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns, the most severe of which tended to be in Democrat-led states.<\/h3>\n<p>The truth is that the economy was \u200cwell on its way to recovery when Trump left office in January 2021. The unemployment rate\u2064 had dropped from a pandemic high of 14.7 percent in April 2020 to\u2062 6.3 percent in January \u20642021. It\u2019s at 3.8 percent now.<\/p>\n<p>During Trump\u2019s first\u200b three years in office, employers added 6.7 million new jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to a\u200d 50-year low of 3.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Biden \u200bclaimed Monday that during his administration, twice as many\u200d jobs \u2064were created.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LABORDAY?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LABORDAY<\/a>: During his \u200dLabor Day speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, \u2062President Biden touted \u201cBidenomics\u201d to union\u200c members, stating, \u2064\u201cIn my\u2062 first two years,\u200c I\u2019ve \u200ccreated nearly \u206213.5 \u200dmillion jobs, \u200cmore jobs in two years than any\u200c president has created in a four-year \u2063term.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hOhLMlAOFd\">pic.twitter.com\/hOhLMlAOFd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200b Forbes (@Forbes) \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Forbes\/status\/1698734032098615782?\">September \u20634, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That statistic has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-deceptively-says-us-was-losing-jobs-under-trump-before-he-came-to-office\/\" title=\"Biden falsely claims US lost jobs under Trump prior to his presidency.\">fact-checked multiple times<\/a> and judged false.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the jobs Biden brags about don\u2019t really represent new ones. It took until September 2022 for the number of jobs in\u2062 the U.S. to reach the pre-pandemic level under Trump, according to FactCheck.org.<\/p>\n<p>About 10 million of the \u206413.5 million\u2062 jobs he cited were needed to\u2064 get\u200c the workforce back to where it was\u200c in February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Frick with Navy Federal Credit Union told Marketplace \u200clast\u2063 summer there is still much\u2063 ground\u2063 to be made up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah,\u200b we\u2019re back to the \u200bpre-pandemic level,\u201d he said. \u201cBut if you look to the pre-pandemic\u2063 trend, we\u2019re 4 or 5 million jobs below that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The labor participation rate \u2014 those of working \u2064age\u200d who have\u2063 jobs \u2014 as of August was \u206462.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Under Trump, it was 63.3\u2062 percent in February 2020, the highest it had\u2063 been\u200c since August 2013 under then-President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s further \u200bproof the economy was recovering, not ailing, when Biden took over: During Trump\u2019s last full quarter in office in 2020, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-q2-gdp-growth-slows-to-0-8-q-q-raises-stimulus-expectations\/\" title=\"China's Q2 GDP growth decelerates to 0.8% q\/q, heightening stimulus hopes.\">gross domestic\u200b product grew<\/a> at\u200d a healthy 4.3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In the first quarter of 2021, before any\u2064 of Biden\u2019s policies would have had a chance to take effect \u2014\u2063 like the inflationary $1.9 trillion American \u200bRescue Plan \u2014 the\u200b economy grew at 6.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, \u200din the quarter that ended in July, the growth rate was 2.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The GDP rate\u2064 fell during the first and second quarters last year, indicating \u200cthe economy\u200d was in a recession.<\/p>\n<p>With Trump\u2019s tax policies still largely in \u2064place and\u200b a Republican House now in charge, businesses \u200bhave \u200dthe assurance Biden\u2019s far-left \u2062high deficit spending, inflationary agenda is stymied for a two-year period and\u200b maybe more.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-deceptively-says-us-losing-jobs-trump-came-office\/\">Biden Deceptively\u2062 Says US\u2062 Was Losing Jobs Under Trump Before He Came to Office<\/a> \u2062appeared \u200cfirst on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If President Joe Biden is known for anything, it&#8217;s his frequent habit of stretching the truth. On Monday in Philadelphia, during a Labor Day speech, Biden claimed, &#8220;Not too long ago, we were losing jobs in this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":2021821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}