{"id":461120,"date":"2021-04-28T21:20:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T01:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=461120"},"modified":"2021-04-28T21:20:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T01:20:33","slug":"biden-makes-controversial-statements-in-prepared-remarks-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-makes-controversial-statements-in-prepared-remarks-to-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Makes Controversial Statements In Prepared Remarks To Congress"},"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%2Fbiden-makes-controversial-statements-in-prepared-remarks-to-congress%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=461120&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\/04\/fb_image-3997.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Democrat President Joe Biden is set to deliver controversial remarks in his annual address to Congress on Wednesday evening ahead of his 100th day in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c100 days since I took the oath of office\u2014lifted my hand off our family Bible\u2014and inherited a nation in crisis,\u201d Biden claimed in prepared remarks. \u201cThe worst pandemic in a century. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow\u2014after just 100 days\u2014I can report to the nation: America is on the move again,\u201d Biden claimed. \u201cTurning peril into possibility. Crisis into opportunity. Setback into strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Analyzing Biden\u2019s remarks:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. That he inherited a nation dealing with \u201cthe worst pandemic in a century.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is true that the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in China, is the worst pandemic that the world has faced in more than 100 years. However, context is important in analyzing his remarks because Biden seeks to cast the situation that he inherited as being as dire as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has made false statements about the situation that they inherited, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/02\/17\/harriss-claim-biden-vaccine-plan-was-starting-scratch\/\">falsely<\/a> claiming that they were \u201cstarting from scratch.\u201d Former COVID testing czar Brett Giroir <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1372640932827389953\">slammed<\/a> Biden, saying that Biden was \u201ccompletely rewrit[ing] history,\u201d adding, \u201cwe had already given a pace of one million [vaccinations] per day by the time the inauguration hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post reported on January 22:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20\">\n<p><em>Even with vaccine shortages and bottlenecks in delivery, the pace needed to meet the new administration\u2019s goal \u2014 1 million doses administered per day \u2014 was already achieved Friday and four other daysof the previous eight, according to Washington Post data. The accelerating speedof the program undercuts assertions by some Biden advisers that they were\u00a0left no plan\u00a0by the Trump administration and suggests they need only to keep their feet on the pedal to clear the bar they set for themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To ensure success, top Biden aides have presented unflattering portraits of the state of the immunization campaign begun by their predecessors and promised to overhaul the use of the Defense Production Act, a Korean War-era law used to compel production of critical items.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But the Trump administration used the law 18 times in relation to vaccine production, according to current and former officials.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is also worth noting that by the time Biden took office, coronavirus infections had already <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_dailytrendscases\">peaked<\/a> at 312,024 cases on January 8 and had fallen to 188,391 on the day that Biden was sworn in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. That he inherited \u201cthe worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Had Biden stepped into office a year ago, then he could make this claim. However, the economy had already started to recover by the time that he took over.<\/p>\n<p>National Review reports that Biden\u2019s claim has \u201cno basis in reality,\u201d writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15.201376936317\">\n<p><em>It\u2019s true that last spring, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/data.bls.gov\/timeseries\/LNS14000000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unemployment rate<\/a>\u00a0had hit 13.3 percent. But in January 2021, it had been cut in half, and was 6.3 percent. You don\u2019t have to go back to the 1930s to find that kind of joblessness \u2014 the unemployment rate was higher than 6.3 percent for the first five years of the Obama-Biden administration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s true that the economy contracted severely in last year\u2019s second quarter. But in the third quarter of 2020, real GDP increased\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bea.gov\/news\/2021\/gross-domestic-product-4th-quarter-and-year-2020-advance-estimate#:~:text=Real%20gross%20domestic%20product%20(GDP,the%20Bureau%20of%20Economic%20Analysis.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">33.4 percent<\/a>. And in the fourth quarter \u2014 which concluded just before Biden took office \u2014 growth was 4 percent.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>3. That he inherited a nation that had suffered \u201cthe worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta highlighted on Twitter: \u201cBiden to refer to Jan 6 insurrection as \u2018the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War\u2019 in speech tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, in the portion of the remarks that were released, Biden does <em>not<\/em> specifically refer to the January 6 riot.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming, as Acosta did, that Biden was referring to the January 6 riot, gets Biden into trouble because there are several events that, by objective measures, were worse than the January 6 riot.<\/p>\n<p>Five people died during the January 6 riot, which experts have estimated caused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/24\/us\/politics\/capitol-riot-damage.html\">$30 million dollars<\/a> in damage.<\/p>\n<p>The riots that broke out in 2020 over the death of George Floyd were estimated to have caused up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=organic&#038;utm_content=1100\">$2 billion<\/a> in damage,and those are numbers that only span May 26-June 8, 2020. Those numbers do not include attacks on the federal courthouse in Portland or the violent riot that broke out in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenoshanews.com\/news\/local\/damage-due-to-rioting-unrest-in-kenosha-tops-50-million-2-000-guard-assisted-here\/article_26473ec9-c08a-5490-9d09-cc2b840b65f1.html\">Kenosha<\/a>, Wisconsin, in September 2020. The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/31\/americans-killed-protests-political-unrest-acled\">noted<\/a> last year that \u201cat least 11 Americans have been killed while participating in political demonstrations this year and another 14 have died in other incidents linked to political unrest.\u201d The Major Cities Chiefs Association <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/police-chief-officers-injured-riots?fbclid=IwAR0wFsq7Ndyhr7HyBQQnZ10Gn4WI_eJz4gH67vbg5ehPJ8u6WBGCKgF80H8\">said<\/a> that more than 2,000 law enforcement officers had been injured during the protests and riots.<\/p>\n<p>Others online quickly pointed out that the loss of life and damage caused during the 9\/11 Islamic terrorist attacks and the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 were both substantially higher than the January 6 riot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0434782608696\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden to refer to Jan 6 insurrection as \u201cthe worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War\u201d in speech tonight. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rW6L2ybDRQ\">pic.twitter.com\/rW6L2ybDRQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acosta\/status\/1387516729828548618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat President Joe Biden is set to deliver controversial remarks in his annual address to Congress on Wednesday evening ahead of his 100th day in office.\u201c100 days since I took &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276963,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3997.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Makes Controversial Statements In Prepared Remarks To Congress","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3997.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Makes Controversial Statements In Prepared Remarks To Congress","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461120","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}