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Washington Post fact checks Biden and his lies: ‘bottomless Pinocchio’ of misleading claims
The Washington Post has its own “fact-checker” rating system using “Pinocchios.” During the Trump administration, the Post created a new rating, the “bottomless Pinocchio,” for claims given three Pinocchios.
Glenn Kessler writes that President Joe Biden has “earned his own Bottomless Pinocchio” for statements about Social Security, gas prices and the Second Amendment, among others.
The analysis also fact-checked the president’s claim that seniors were getting an increase in their Social Security checks for the first time in 10 years. The White House also included this claim in a tweet that was deleted.
“The reason Social Security payments are going up is because Social Security benefits, under a law passed in 1972, are adjusted every year to keep pace with inflation,” the Post’s analysis said.
The president also claimed recently that gas was over $5 a gallon when he took office.
“And because of the action we’ve taken, gas prices are declining. We’re down $1.25 since the peak this summer and they’ve been falling for the last three weeks as well, and adding up real savings for families today. The most common price of gas in America is $3.39, down from over $5 when I took office,” Biden said in October.
Washington Post gives Biden a 'bottomless Pinocchio' in fact-check of several misleading claims https://t.co/Rjn675Dje4
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The Washington Post’s Fact-Checker wrote that the White House has commonly referred to the “most common price” from GasBuddy because California’s high gas prices raise the price of the national average.
The president has also repeated a claim about the Second Amendment several times, which the Washington Post gave four Pinocchios for in 2021.
“The Second Amendment was never absolute,” Biden said in June, despite the claim being debunked. “You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons.”
In a clever reaction to President Joe Biden pardoning his son, Hunter, fact-checkers on Elon Musk’s X are flagging Biden’s old post stating “no one is above the law.” Biden’s old post, shared in May, was written as an attack on now-President-elect Donald Trump, but the tables have turned on Biden as he is being heavily criticized for his hypocrisy in placing his son “above the law.”
The New York Post reports:
“It now has a community warning readers: ‘President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for crimes covering nearly 11 years of ‘offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”
After that, Musk added his own proposed note calling out the president, writing: “By pardoning his son Hunter, not merely for a single crime, but for actual or potential crimes he may or may not have created over an eleven-year period, Joe Biden has made clear that some people are, in fact, above the law.”
According to the New York Post, “Hunter Biden, 54, pleaded guilty in September to nine counts tied to bilking Americans of $.1.4 million in taxes and was found guilty of three federal gun charges in June after he was charged with possession of a firearm while addicted to illegal drugs.”
Biden is not only being criticized for pardoning his Hunter, but for going back on his vow that he would not pardon his son. Biden argued in his defense that Hunter was “singled out only because he is my son,” The Post reports. Biden is hitting back saying that critics are only trying to break Hunter’s sobriety.
Musk shared a screenshot on X of his own fact-check with a statement saying “Community Notes slays.” Community Notes is a feature on X that allows users to flag false or misleading content, according to The Post, leaving the fact-checking up to its users rather than staffers.
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