No one ever accused Biden of being a paragon of truth. But this is just insulting.
And Joe Biden has nowhere to hide after being caught in one bald-faced lie.
During a rambling address in Milwaukee on Wednesday, President Biden confusedly asserted that the United States has the lowest inflation rate “in America” and wrongly claimed a participation in the civil rights struggle, which he even disputed himself.
Mr. Biden visited the largest city in the swing state of Wisconsin to announce $36 million in government assistance to fix a bridge that local officials say is inconvenient and dangerous for pedestrians, bikers, and others.
During his remarks, Mr. Biden boasted about his efforts to reduce inflation, which has decreased from record highs in 2022 but remains higher than when he began office in 2021.
However, the president seemed perplexed about where inflation is measured.
“Wages are rising faster than prices and now we have among the lowest inflation rates of any country in America,” he told the crowd.
Previously, he stated that the U.S. has the lowest rate among the world’s “leading” economies.
Mr. Biden also repeated his assertion that he rose through the ranks of the civil rights movement, despite his own admission that this is false.
“I was deeply involved initially in the civil rights movement that got me involved to run in the first place,” he told the cheering throng.
However, Mr. Biden admitted in 1987 that he was not involved in the civil rights movement and had never marched for equality.
“During the 1960s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement,” Mr. Biden said during a campaign speech for his 1988 presidential run.
“I was not an activist. I worked at an all-Black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, Delaware. I was involved in what they were thinking, in what they were feeling.”
“But I was not out marching. I was not down in Selma. I was not anywhere else,” he said. “I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans in my own city.”
Despite acknowledging that he was not an activist, he has made numerous assertions regarding his efforts to show sympathy with African Americans.
Last summer, during a ceremony to dedicate a national memorial to Emmett Till, whose murder in 1955 spurred the civil rights movement, Mr. Biden boasted about his civil rights heritage.
In September 2022, Mr. Biden stated that he was “very engaged” in the civil rights movement.
Mr. Biden has also consistently claimed that he was arrested at a civil rights march.
“I did not walk in the shoes of generations of students who walked these grounds, but I walked other grounds,” Mr. Biden stated during an address at Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, both historically Black institutions. “Because I’m so d*mn old, I was there as well.”
“You think I’m kidding? It seems like yesterday was the first time I got arrested,” Mr. Biden said.
PolitiFact rates this claim false, stating that there is no evidence that Mr. Biden was detained at a civil rights protest, despite his repeated claims.
The Washington Post rated him Four Pinocchios (their severe grade for false claims) for the story, stating that “too many elements do not add up.”
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