{"id":2260670,"date":"2024-06-05T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blatant-lie-biden-team-tries-to-slam-dunk-fox-news-gets-dunked-on-instead\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T21:02:49","slug":"blatant-lie-biden-team-tries-to-slam-dunk-fox-news-gets-dunked-on-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blatant-lie-biden-team-tries-to-slam-dunk-fox-news-gets-dunked-on-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Team&#8217;s Failed Attempt to Criticize Fox News Backfires"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fblatant-lie-biden-team-tries-to-slam-dunk-fox-news-gets-dunked-on-instead%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=2260670&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--><p>President \u200bJoe Biden&#8217;s \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-hes-open-to-pardoning-trump\/\" title=\"DeSantis open to pardoning Trump, says reports.\">campaign \u200cteam<\/a> tried to fact-check\u2062 Fox News \u2062host John Roberts but faced criticism. \u2063Roberts mentioned Trump\u2064 capping insulin costs \u200dfor seniors, supported by archives.\u200d @BidenHQ countered,\u2064 accusing Fox of spreading lies. Critics denounced @BidenHQ for misinformation. Savannah Lynn presented evidence that Trump reduced\u2063 insulin costs \u200dbefore Biden\u200b froze the policy \u2064upon\u200b taking office and later \u2064reintroduced it as his own.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> campaign surrogates attempted to fact-check \u2014 and dunk on \u2014 Fox News host John Roberts, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-confronted-on-why-biden-still-wears-masks-indoors-around-vaccinated-people\/\" title=\"White House confronted on why Biden still wears masks indoors around vaccinated people\">critics quickly pointed<\/a> out that their attack had landed wide of the mark.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange began with Roberts, who said to cohost Sandra Smith during their show \u201cAmerica Reports\u201d that he remembered President Donald Trump capping insulin costs for Medicare seniors at $35 monthly. Roberts\u2019 statement is backed up by the Trump White House archives from May 26, 2020, eight months prior to Biden\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s campaign account, @BidenHQ \u2014 where the bio reads \u201cJust the facts, Jack\u201d \u2014 offered an alternative history with alternative facts to go with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFox host tries to claim Trump, not President Biden, capped insulin at $35\/month FACT CHECK: This is a blatant lie. Trump did not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-on-congress-to-expand-medicare-make-obamacare-permanent\/\" title=\"Biden Calls on Congress to Expand Medicare, Make ObamaCare Permanent\">cap insulin costs<\/a>, President Biden did for seniors through the Inflation Reduction Act. Trump\u2019s Project 2025 wants to repeal it, which would raise insulin costs for over a million Americans,\u201d the account posted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fox host tries to claim Trump, not President Biden, capped insulin at $35\/month<\/p>\n<p>FACT CHECK: This is a blatant lie. Trump did not cap insulin costs, President Biden did for seniors through the Inflation Reduction Act. Trump\u2019s Project 2025 wants to repeal it, which would raise\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iDrrBKEIhf\">pic.twitter.com\/iDrrBKEIhf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BidenHQ\/status\/1797725488145715598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis account is becoming a regular source of disinformation,\u201d Mark Hemingway said of @BidenHQ.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This account is becoming a regular source of disinformation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qP2JOgmBvI\">https:\/\/t.co\/qP2JOgmBvI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kZQbFSgfBg\">https:\/\/t.co\/kZQbFSgfBg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Heminator\/status\/1797817830748086627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFACT CHECK The internet is forever. Unlike you I have receipts,\u201d Savannah Lynn posted, sharing articles showing that Trump had, in fact, reduced insulin costs to cap copays at $35 per month for seniors. She also showed that Biden, upon taking office, had actually frozen Trump\u2019s insulin price-reduction while he was systematically reversing all of the Trump policies he could \u2014 and had then reintroduced the price cap as though it was his own idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FACT CHECK<br \/> The internet is forever. Unlike you I have receipts.<\/p>\n<p>Here ya go 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Zpz8PMjVl\">https:\/\/t.co\/9Zpz8PMjVl<\/a><br \/>  Article 2<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UlsEVSQqDr\">https:\/\/t.co\/UlsEVSQqDr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden froze Trumps policy day 1 and released it a few years later.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d3iLSx77PO\">https:\/\/t.co\/d3iLSx77PO<\/a><br \/>  Article 2<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WQ0FhzoAXP\">https:\/\/t.co\/WQ0FhzoAXP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OkBsS1wfF9\">https:\/\/t.co\/OkBsS1wfF9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Savannah Lynn (@thesavvytruth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesavvytruth\/status\/1797757721594486872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFact check: Biden froze Trump\u2019s order and made seniors pay the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-blocks-bidens-deportation-freeze\/\" title=\"Judge Blocks Biden\u2019s Deportation Freeze\">extra costs<\/a> for years so he could steal the idea as his,\u201d another posted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fact check: Biden froze Trump\u2019s order and made seniors pay the extra costs for years so he could steal the idea as his. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TPFn71LRxS\">https:\/\/t.co\/TPFn71LRxS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CXOP4oNaWO\">pic.twitter.com\/CXOP4oNaWO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 democrat no more (@WalkFromDems) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalkFromDems\/status\/1797763863045341237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere are receipts to dispute the Biden campaign\u2019s claim about what I said,\u201d Roberts responded later.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cAs it turns out, the Biden campaign \u2014 not Roberts \u2014 is guilty of spreading falsehoods.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Roberts responded to the Biden campaign\u2019s accusation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are receipts to dispute the Biden campaign\u2019s claim about what I said,\u201d Roberts pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>First, Roberts cited a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5QKuBdPHRW\">https:\/\/t.co\/5QKuBdPHRW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donna (@IAmTheStorm__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAmTheStorm__\/status\/1798426492835188961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s surrogates tried to fact-check Fox News host John Roberts but missed the mark. Roberts recalled Trump capping his border wall project on a show. 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