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The false and misleading claims President Biden made during his first 100 days in office
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April 8 By Glenn Kessler, Adrian Blanco and Tyler Remmel Updated April 30 at 12:43 p.m.Originally published April 26, 2021
After four years of a presidency that swamped Americans with a gusher of false and misleading claims, the Joe Biden era has offered a return to a more typical pattern when it comes to a commander in chief and his relationship with the facts — one that features frequent spin and obfuscation or exaggeration, with the occasional canard.
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More typical for Biden, when he uttered a false statement, was some subtle truth-stretching.
He spun that if Congress passed his infrastructure plan, “the economy” would create 19 million additional jobs; only 2.7 million of those jobs could be attributed to the proposal itself. He asserted that as vice president he helped craft an $800 billion strategy to help Central America; it was $750 million.
Through April 29, his 100th day, Biden has made 78 false or misleading statements, according to a Washington Post Fact Checker analysis of every speech, interview, tweet or public statement made by the president. That compares to 511 such statements in Trump’s first 100 days.
Misleading claims in the first 100 days[IMAGE]
In compiling the database of Biden’s claims in his first 100 days, The Fact Checker used the same methodology as the Trump database that counted more than 30,000 claims .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/ .. over the course of Trump’s presidency. Any statement that would merit at least Two Pinocchios — essentially “half true” — was included. Any claim that was repeated was also included, though unlike Trump, Biden generally does not repeat his false claims if they have been fact-checked as false.
Biden’s relatively limited number of falsehoods is a function, at least in part, of the fact that his public appearances consist mostly of prepared texts vetted by his staff. He devotes little time to social media, in contrast to his Twitter-obsessed predecessor, and rarely faces reporters or speaks off the cuff.
His press secretary, Jen Psaki, holds lengthy daily briefings with the media, and Cabinet secretaries also speak on Biden’s behalf.
All told, through April 29, according to a count by Factba.se .. http://factba.se/ , Biden spoke about 30 percent fewer words than Trump and tweeted 65 percent fewer times. He gave only seven interviews, compared to 22 for Trump, and held only two news conferences, compared to nine for Trump.
Almost 100 of Trump’s claims came from tweets; only one of Biden’s tweets was deemed false or misleading. Trump made 56 suspect statements at campaign rallies; Biden held only one campaign rally — on his 100th day — where he made one suspect claim.
How Biden and Trump communicated publicly in the first 100 days- Source: Factba.se [IMAGE]
About one-eighth of Biden’s false or misleading claims on the list relate to the Georgia voting law, which Democrats charge is part of a GOP effort to seize on Trump’s bogus claims of election fraud to justify the disenfranchisement of minorities.
Biden’s claim that the measure shortened voting hours drew sharp criticism from Republicans, who accused Democrats of lying about the bill. In reality, Election Day hours were not changed and the opportunities to cast a ballot in early voting were expanded.
Biden aides never provided an explanation for why Biden made this statement — or why it was even repeated in an official statement issued by the White House.
Biden has also made some other exaggerated claims about the Georgia law, such as calling it “Jim Crow on steroids.” He was referring to a system that, before passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, systematically denied Black Americans their constitutional right to vote through “literacy tests,” poll taxes and other measures. But the law does not put up roadblocks to Black Americans registering to vote.
While Biden exaggerated at times, he often recalibrated his wording in response to news coverage. For instance, he claimed that reporters had said he was “crazy” when he announced a goal of 100 million vaccine shots in 100 days. That was a stretch, as reporters instead had written it was ambitious and potentially difficult. After fact checks appeared, Biden switched to simply saying reporters said the goal was “ambitious.”
VIDEO - 4:39 The Washington Post Fact Checker analyzed President Biden's speeches, interviews, tweets, and public statements made during his first 100 days in office. (Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)
Biden has said he ignores Trump, but the former president seems to be ever-present at times in Biden’s mind — and, on occasion, the current president will use exaggerated rhetoric to draw a contrast.
During a news conference, Biden claimed, without apparent evidence, that children “starved to death” in Mexico under Trump’s 2019 policy allowing border officers to return non-Mexican asylum seekers to locations in Mexico as their claims are adjudicated in immigration courts.
When Biden addressed the pandemic, he also pushed the envelope sometimes to favorably contrast himself with Trump. He said, “When I took office three weeks ago, America didn’t have a plan or enough supplies to vaccinate most of the country,” and that Trump had failed to order enough vaccine doses. In reality, the Trump administration had options in place to buy more vaccines. The Biden team had to fill in the blanks of the plan and it sped up the tempo, but it was wrong to say there was no plan .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/17/harriss-claim-biden-vaccine-plan-was-starting-scratch/ .
At another point, he said: “When I took office 50 days ago, only 8 percent of Americans after months, only 8 percent of those over the age of 65 had gotten their first vaccination. Today, that number is 65 percent.” When Biden took office, vaccinations had only been given for about a month, not “months.” Moreover, health-care workers, residents of long-term care facilities, front-line essential workers and people 75 and older were in line to be the first to be vaccinated, which is why a relatively small percentage of people over 65 had been vaccinated.
A number of Biden’s statements were flubs. For instance, he said Hispanics were the fastest-growing immigrant population, when their rate of growth has been overtaken by that of Asian Americans in the past decade.
Five times, Biden oddly claimed .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/23/bidens-messed-up-math-comparing-war-deaths-covid-deaths/ .. that more Americans had died from the coronavirus than from all of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined (sometimes he added in the Sept. 11 attacks as well). But the number of in-service deaths during World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined adds up to about 580,000 deaths, which was more than the covid-19 deaths at the time. The White House initially said the president intended to refer to combat deaths, but that made little sense because then he actually could have said more people have died of covid-19 than in combat during all of America’s wars against foreign enemies.
Perhaps the strangest claim .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/19/bidens-repeated-claim-hes-traveled-17000-miles-with-xi-jinping/ .. made by Biden — which he said twice as president — was that he had “traveled 17,000 miles with” Chinese President Xi Jinping when they were both vice presidents. Biden certainly met with him a lot — but the White House conceded that “traveled with” was not accurate. Moreover, no matter how generously the travel was measured, it never added up to 17,000 miles. How Biden made this calculation — which he also said at least once during the campaign — remains a mystery.
Explore all of Biden’s false or misleading claims[Two examples of very many cases of more analysis inside.]
Claims are included if they would receive two or more Pinocchios on the Fact Checker scale. Repeats of the same claim are included.
“All America wants to thank you, because here’s what we mean by delivering for the people. We created in the first hundred days. 1,300,000 new jobs — 1,300.000 jobs in one hundred days. That’s more new jobs in the first hundred days of any president in history.””
Analysis: This number probably understates how many jobs have been created in the first 100 days — the job figures for April have not been released — but Biden is giving too much credit to his administration, especially when he compares himself to the first 100 days of other presidents. The economy was already rebounding from the pandemic, and left unsaid was that the economy still has almost 7 million fewer jobs than when the pandemic struck. At The Fact Checker, we are dubious about the practice of measuring job growth by presidential term. Presidents do not create jobs; companies and consumers do.
“That’s the reason why it’s recovering, because we are investing. Look how rapidly it’s recovered since we passed the last piece of legislation. And that legislation was $1.9 trillion.”
Analysis: Biden gives too much credit for recent economic growth the his coronavirus relief pacakge that passed in March. Trump signed a big bill in December as well, providing $600 checks to Americans, which is reflected in the strong economic numbers of the first quarter. The full impact of Biden's bill will not be felt until later this year.
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