Joe Biden is upset with the mainstream media because they refuse to accept his radical leftist privilege, which allows him to tell bold-faced lies no matter how outrageous and not report on them. No doubt, Nancy Pelosi will claim they are racists and Nazis. Isn’t it funny that Democrats call Republicans Nazis but somehow dismiss the same claim for those who call for the death of all Jews? Come to think of it, it is not funny at all.
At least six establishment media outlets fact checked Biden’s lie of the century that he inherited an inflation rate of 9%. It was actually 1.4%. Yet, even after mainstream media outlets debunked that lie, Biden continues to lie about it. KJP, the White House spokesperson, tried to blame it on COVID. As Maury Povich would say, “The lie detector determines that was a lie.” The COVID pandemic began in January 2020.
That means that during the entire year, this county was suffering through the pandemic, and inflation remained low. So, how could inflation be tied to COVID?
Breitbart News reported:
Biden’s inflation peaked in June 2022 at a year-over-year rate of 9.0 percent, nearly one and a half years after he took office. Inflation remains sticky and recently rose again. In March, inflation increased to 3.5 percent.
The average Wisconsin family lost $21,981 due to the increased cost of living under Biden, the Republican National Committee estimated in May.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELA McDonald’s Big Mac burger, a medium beverage, and a medium fries meal costs $18 in some locations, up $10 from 2018 when Donald Trump was president.
Associated Press (AP) assessed Biden’s repeated claim as false:
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Inflation was at 1.4% in 2021 as Biden assumed the presidency, having risen from a low of 0.1% in May 2020, two months into the COVID-19 pandemic. It continued to increase steadily in the first 17 months of Biden’s presidency, reaching a peak of 9.1% in June 2022. Data released today shows that as of last month, it had fallen to 3.4%.
THE FACTS: Biden has twice cited this number, which is drawn from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index, in the past week, first in a CNN interview on May 8 and again during an interview with Yahoo Finance on Wednesday.
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Biden repeated the claim about the inflation rate, albeit in slightly vaguer form, in a Tuesday interview with Yahoo Finance. This time, he said: “I think inflation has gone slightly up. It was at 9% when I came in, and it’s now down around 3%.”
A White House official said in a Tuesday email to CNN: “The President was making the point that the factors that caused inflation were in place when he took office. The pandemic caused inflation around the world by disrupting our economy and breaking our supply chains.”
Washignton Post gave Biden four Pinocchios:
Biden has tried to explain that inflation was largely the fault of the pandemic, not his policies, and that his administration has made strides in reducing it. But in doing so, he has been sloppy in his phrasing. Twice in just the past week, he flatly has said inflation was 9 percent when he became president — when inflation was 1.4 percent when he took office.
White House officials say that Biden means to say that the factors for 9 percent inflation in mid-2022 were already in place when he assumed the presidency. In other words, higher prices for goods and services would have happened no matter who was elected president in 2020.
National Review ripped Biden for the false claim:
One possibility is that Biden knows this is false, and this is a deliberate effort to mislead the public and get people to associate high inflation with Donald Trump’s presidency and not his own.
Another possibility is that Biden misremembers the inflation rate when he took office, he was informed that his claim was false, and he has since forgotten the correct numbers. Special counsel Robert Hur, among others, contended that Biden’s memory is poor.
Forbes wrote:
Biden told Yahoo Finance inflation was “at 9% when I came in,” repeating a claim he made in a CNN interview earlier this month (inflation was at 1.4% year-over-year when Biden took office in January 2021, according to the Consumer Price Index).
The Daily Mail reported:
Biden made a false claim about soaring inflation during his time in office in an interview with Yahoo Finance.
‘I think inflation has gone slightly up,’ Biden said in the interview. He claimed it was at ‘nine percent when I came in, and it’s now down around 3 percent.’
While inflation hit more than 9 percent during his presidency as the U.S. came out of the pandemic, it was less than two percent – 1.4 percent year-over-year in January 2021 – when he started his presidency.
