The Lies of Biden

I am going to list the lies, half-truths, insinuations, and plagiarisms of Joe Biden over the years that he has used to bolster himself and make him more relevant than what he actual is. Although I have only 41 listed here, these have compounded over the years and have been repeated by him on numerous occasions. But here are “the facts man”:

During the recent Presidential debate on June 26, 2024, hosted by CNN:

Joe Biden stated: “It’s $15 for an insulin shot, as opposed to $400.” People with diabetes who have Medicare or private insurance pay about $450 yearly prior to the law.

The fact is: Out-of-pocket insulin costs for older Americans on Medicare were capped at $35 not $15 in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act that President Joe Biden signed into law. People with diabetes who have Medicare or private insurance paid about $450 yearly and not $400 monthly prior to the law.
Joe Biden stated: “Trump told Americans to “inject bleach” into their arms to treat COVID-19.”

The fact is: Rather, Trump asked whether it would be possible to inject disinfectant into the lungs. “And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute,” he said at an April 2020 press conference. “And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful.”
Joe Biden stated: referring to Trump after the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017: “The one who said I think they’re fine people on both sides.”

The fact is: Trump did use those words to describe attendees of the deadly rally, which was planned by white nationalists. But as Trump supporters have pointed out, he also said that day that he wasn’t talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists in attendance. His words were, “You had some very bad people in that group,” Trump said during a news conference a few days after the rally, “But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.”

He then added that he wasn’t talking about “the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.” Instead, he said, the press had been unfair in its treatment of protesters who were there to innocently and legally protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Joe Biden stated: “The truth is, I’m the only president this century that doesn’t have any — this decade — any troops dying anywhere in the world like he did.”

The fact is: At least 16 service members have been killed in hostile action since Biden took office in January 2021. On Aug. 26, 2021, 13 died during a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, as U.S. troops withdrew from the country. An enemy drone killed three U.S. service members at a desert base in Jordan on January 28, 2024.
Joe Biden stated: “159, or 58, don’t know an exact number, presidential historians, they’ve had meetings, and they voted, who is the worst president in American history … They said he (Trump) was the worst in all American history. That’s a fact. That’s not conjecture.”

The fact is: The survey in question, a project from professors at the University of Houston and Coastal Carolina University, included 154 usable responses, from 525 respondents invited to participate.

In a 4-1/2 minute speech after the Supreme Court decision in Trump’s Presidential Immunity case, Joe Biden spouted at least five lies. (An average of about one per minute)

Joe Biden stated: not even the president, “is above the law,” but then asserted that “with today’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity—that fundamentally changed.” “For all…for all practical purposes, today’s decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do,”

The fact is: In the opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the president of the United States may not be prosecuted for duties he conducts under his constitutional authority but may be prosecuted for all other actions. The Supreme Court ruled that a former president is “presumptively” immune from prosecution for any “official” duties of the president of the United States, but he may be prosecuted for “unofficial” actions.
Joe Biden stated: “the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law, even including the Supreme Court of the United States. The only limits will be self-imposed by the president alone.” He later reiterated this claim, stating “the law would no longer” define “the limits of the presidency.”

The fact is: No passage in the 119-page document gives the president the authority to define “official” and “unofficial” actions to avoid prosecution and assign himself unlimited power. This has been left up to the courts based on facts of the situation.
Joe Biden stated: what he considers to be a trend of “attacks” on a “wide range of long-established legal principles in our nation, from gutting voting rights and civil rights, to taking away a woman’s right to choose, to today’s decision, that undermines the rule of law in this nation.”

The fact is: The Supreme Court has not “gutted” voting rights or civil rights of any kind. Every citizen of the United States retains equal voting rights at the age of eighteen, the most a U.S. citizen has ever enjoyed in U.S. history. There is no poll tax to vote, nor a sex or ethnicity requirement. Every citizen maintains sovereign franchise at the ballot box. As Chief Justice Roberts wrote in his opinion, the U.S. “has never before needed an answer” to the question of when a former president may “be prosecuted for official acts taken during his presidency.”
Joe Biden stated: accused Trump of sending “a violent mob to the U.S. Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power.”

The fact is: Two tweets on Jan. 6, 2021, counter this claim, showing Trump calling for protesters to remain “peaceful” and to “support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement.”

January 6, 2021, 19:38:58: Please support our Capital Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!

I am asking for everyone at the Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!
Joe Biden stated: “I know I will respect the limits of the presidential powers as I have for the last three-and-a-half years, but any president—including Donald Trump—will now be free to ignore the law.”

The fact is: Biden has not respected the limits of presidential power, however, and the Supreme Court has called him out on it. When Biden sought to unilaterally “forgive” billions in student debt, the Supreme Court struck down his first attempt. He responded by issuing executive orders to dismiss even more debt.

A White House spokesman, Andrew Bates, said that Biden had “brought honesty and integrity back to the White House” and that he shared life experiences that had shaped his outlook. Here are some of his other tall tales:

Joe Biden stated: in a May commencement speech at the United States Military Academy, “In our last debate, when I was 29 years old, the first question he was asked at the debate was, ‘Do you have any regrets, Senator Boggs?’ And he said, ‘No.’ Then we came to the very end of the debate, where I spoke and then he was to conclude. He stood up, and he said, ‘You know, I was asked if I had any regrets. I said no, but I have one: Had Joe Biden gone to the Naval Academy when I appointed him, he’d still have seven months left on and wouldn’t be able to run.’”

The fact is: There are possibly three lies in this one statement.

a. In his 2007 autobiography, “Promises to Keep,” Biden wrote of only one debate, and did not include any reference to the nomination. In addition, newspaper articles detailing debates and events attended by Biden and Senator Boggs in September and October of that year did not mention any questions about regrets or the nomination.

b. The United States Military Academy does not have any records of Biden receiving a nomination or an appointment. Even in a 1972 speech, Biden stated that he had been “considered” for an appointment, but this is a far cry from being nominated or appointed.

c. Midshipmen at the Naval Academy attend for four years and serve for at least five years in the Navy or Marines after graduation. Had Biden attended the academy instead of the University of Delaware in 1961, he would have still been able to run against Senator Boggs in 1972. And not like he suggested that he would be ineligible to run for another seven months.
Joe Biden stated: Remarks at a Campaign Event in Detroit, Michigan May 19, 2024, “I’m the first in my family ever to go to college.”

The fact is: Biden described his maternal grandfather, Ambrose Finnegan Sr., as the “only person in the house with a college degree” in his 2007 autobiography. According to Mr. Finnegan’s 1957 obituary, he attended and played football for Santa Clara College in California. Mr. Biden has previously said that he was the first on the Biden side of the family to go to college. So, which is truth, and which is a lie?
Joe Biden stated: While running for president in 2020, Biden claimed he was “arrested” as a US senator as he tried to visit South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela while Mandela was imprisoned.

The fact is: There is no evidence that Biden was ever arrested in South Africa.
Joe Biden stated: “And, by the way, my Grandpop Biden, who died very young – he was – died in the hospital I was born in six days before I was there, I mean before I was born.”

The fact is: His paternal grandfather who had worked in the oil industry, Joseph Harry Biden, died in a hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, in September 1941; the president was born more than a year later, in November 1942 – and at a different hospital, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Biden’s maternal grandfather, Ambrose Joseph Finnegan, did die at the Scranton hospital where the president was born, but in 1957, when the president was 14 years old.
Joe Biden stated: Remarks at a Campaign Event in Florida on April 23, 2024, “I used to drive an 18-wheeler.”

The fact is: During law school Biden had a job driving a school bus and in the 1970’s he took a 500 mile trip as a senator on a cargo truck. This must be the only qualifications to become an 18-wheeler truck driver
Joe Biden stated: In a speech on 9/11/23 to service members and first responders on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President Joe Biden falsely claimed that he was at Ground Zero the day after the Twin Towers fell in Manhattan.

The fact is: Biden was not at Ground Zero the day after 9/11. He actually went to Ground Zero nine days after the attacks
Joe Biden stated: Remarks at a NAACP event in Michigan on May 19, 2024, “As a matter of fact, the first organization I ever joined was the N.A.A.C.P. Didn’t get to vote until you were 21 in those days, but I got involved in civil rights when I was 15.”

The fact is: Biden joined the N.A.A.C.P. during his first political race for New Castle County Council in 1970, when he was in his late 20s, according to a 2019 Washington Post article that included an interview with the former president of the Delaware N.A.A.C.P.
Joe Biden stated: During an interview with Howard Stern in April 2024, Biden relaying through his mother, “She said, ‘Remember when they were desegregating Lynnfield, the neighborhood? It was 70 homes built, suburbia. And I told you there was a Black family moving in, and people were down there protesting. I told you not to go down there. And you went down, remember that? And you got arrested, standing on the porch with a Black family.’”

The fact is: For many years, Biden has suggested that he played a greater role in the civil rights movement than he actually did. Local newspapers reported that in spring 1959, when Biden was 16 not 15 or 13 as he sometimes says, a Black family moved into an all-white neighborhood in Wilmington, prompting residents to protest against integration. Police officers described the demonstrators as a mob, some armed with firebombs, and arrested seven people, including four teenagers for possessing fireworks. So, if there were only four teenagers arrested and he says he was arrested during that time, was he in possession of fireworks and on which side of the protest was he on?
Joe Biden stated: Remarks at a Campaign Event in Florida on April 16, 2024, “Under my plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 will pay an additional penny. I hope you’re all able to make $400,000. I never did.”

The fact is: According to Mr. Biden’s tax returns, he and his wife, Jill, earned less than $400,000 almost every year from 1998 to 2016. But they earned more than $400,000 in 2013 and in every year since 2017, ranging from $408,733 in 2013 to more than $11 million in 2017. (The president’s yearly salary, under federal law, is $400,000.)
Joe Biden stated: In remarks to reporters on April 17, 2024, “Ambrose Finnegan — we called him Uncle Bosie — he was shot down. He was Army Air Corps before there was an Air Force. He flew single engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it. He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time.”

The fact is: Biden’s suggestion that Mr. Finnegan was shot down and cannibalized in New Guinea is not supported by military records or anthropologists. According to the agency of the Pentagon that accounts for the missing or those taken prisoner during war, Mr. Finnegan, a second lieutenant, was a passenger on an aircraft that crashed into the ocean on the north coast of New Guinea in May 1944 after its engines failed. Three men, including Mr. Biden’s uncle, were lost in the crash while a fourth was rescued by a passing barge. There are no indications that the plane was shot down or that Mr. Finnegan was flying the plane.

Mr. Finnegan would have been an unlikely victim of cannibalism in New Guinea, anthropologists and locals told PolitiFact and The Guardian. Studies of cannibalism in the country have noted that victims tended to be enemies from warring tribes as an act of revenge or deceased relatives as part of a mourning ritual.
Joe Biden stated: in an interview with CNN on May 8, 2024, “No president’s had the run we’ve had in terms of creating jobs and bringing down inflation. It was 9% percent when I came to office, 9%.”

The fact is: Biden’s claim that the inflation rate was 9% when he became president is not close to true. The year-over-year inflation rate in January 2021, the month of his inauguration, was about 1.4%. The Biden-era inflation rate did peak at about 9.1% – but that peak occurred in June 2022, after Biden had been president for more than 16 months.
Joe Biden stated: how his Delaware house caught fire, almost killing his wife, dog, and cat, and melting his Corvette.

The fact is: Fox and the Associated Press reported that it was just a small kitchen fire.
Joe Biden stated: And then there is his million miles flown story told to Amtrak conductor Angelo Negri. Biden claims that Negri congratulated him during a train trip to visit his dying mother

The fact is: CNN tore that story apart, writing, “Biden’s story is false in two ways. First, he could not possibly have had this exchange with Negri: He did not reach the million-miles-flown mark as vice president until September 2015, according to his own past comments, but Negri had died more than a year earlier, in May 2014. Second, Biden’s mother was not dying at the time he reached the million-miles-flown mark. In fact, she had died more than five years prior.”
Joe Biden stated: in 2008, a helicopter he was riding in was “forced down” near Osama bin Laden’s lair in Afghanistan insinuating that he was in some type of warfare situation.

The fact is: Actually, the helicopter was just waiting out a sandstorm, wrote former Washington Examiner reporter Alana Goodman.
Joe Biden stated: “ancestors … worked the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours.”

The fact is: He could produce no such ancestors upon request.
Joe Biden stated: In 2007, ” inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at.”

The fact is: The truth is that he was in the green zone when a mortar landed several hundred yards away.
Joe Biden stated: In his 2007 memoir, “Promises to Keep,” Biden recounted the story of how, as a US senator, he dramatically confronted Milosevic at a 1993 meeting, allegedly telling him: “I think you’re a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.”

The fact is: Three out of four aides in the meeting wouldn’t corroborate.
Joe Biden stated: in September 1983: “When I was 17 years old, I participated in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in my state.”

The fact is: There is no evidence that Biden had any involvement in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, beyond being a spectator as he went to college.
Joe Biden stated: Biden said he criticized former President George W. Bush in several long, private meetings in the Oval Office.

The fact is: A Bush aid stated, "The president would never sit through two hours of Joe Biden. I don't ever remember Biden being in the Oval. He was such a blowhard on all that stuff - there wasn't a reason to bring him in." The only meetings between Bush and Biden also included other lawmakers.
Joe Biden stated: In an August 2023 speech, “A lot of you were with me when I was in Pittsburgh. And, by the way, the – Pittsburgh is the ‘City of Bridges.’ More bridges in Pittsburgh than any other city in America. I watched that bridge collapse. I got there and saw it collapse. With over 200 feet off the ground, going over a valley, and it collapsed.”

The fact is: It’s not true that Biden “got there and saw it collapse.” The collapse occurred before 7 a.m. on January 28, 2022, more than six hours prior to Biden landing in the Pittsburgh area for a scheduled visit that included a speech about the economy and infrastructure. He visited the site of the collapse after 1 p.m. that day.
Joe Biden stated: In an August 2023 speech, “And unlike the last president, in my first two years in office, even with all we’ve done – I’m the first one to cut the federal debt by $1 trillion $700 billion.”

The fact is: Biden has not reduced the national debt (the accumulation of federal borrowing plus interest owed); in fact, the national debt has increased from about $27.8 trillion on Biden’s first day in office in 2021 to about $32.7 trillion today.

To address Biden’s lies that are in writing or also known as plagiarism.

Going all the way back to 1965, when he was a Syracuse University College of Law student, Biden lifted five pages of a law review for a 15 page legal report. “I was wrong, but I was not malevolent in any way,” he said when caught.
In 1987, he was forced out of the presidential race when he was caught stealing lines of British politician Neil Kinnock’s speeches. Maybe worse, he also mimicked some of Kinnock’s mannerisms in a style a reporter at the time called “creepy.” Political author Richard Ben Cramer said Biden knew what he was doing and even had a video of Kinnock to study.
Biden also stole lines from Robert F. Kennedy during his 1987 presidential race. During his presidential run in 1968, RFK said, “It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. and it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.” Nearly 20 years later, Biden said, “That bottom line can tell us everything about our lives, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America, except that which makes us proud to be Americans.”
Also in 1987, Biden plagiarized from President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address when he fashioned a line off JFK’s famous phrase “Each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.” Biden said, “Each generation of Americans has been summoned.”
Biden in 1987 also pulled a phrase from then-Sen. Hubert Humphrey. At the Democratic National Convention in 1976, Senator Humphrey from Minnesota, declared: “The ultimate moral test of any government is the manner in which it treats three groups of its citizens: first, those who are in the dawn of life, our children; second, those who are in the shadows of life, our sick, our needy, our handicapped, and those, third, in the twilight of life, our elderly.” Senator Biden’s version offered “a nation noble enough to treat those at the dawn of life with love, those at the dusk of life with care and those who live in the shadow of life with compassion.”
In 2000, Biden was caught pulling lines from a federal judge’s opinion for an article in the Harvard Journal on Legislation about his Violence Against Women Act.
During his 2020 campaign, Biden pulled policy platforms and wording from several groups, including a word-for-word proposal from the XQ Institute.
Biden also used whole sections of Bernie Sanders campaign plans in their joint unity task force paper.
For his 2020 “Build Back Better” theme, Biden adopted the slogan from former President Bill Clinton’s “Building Back Better.”
And finally, Joe Biden claimed: “he created over 15 million new jobs during his presidency”

The fact is: In February 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S., 152.3 million people were employed. Two months later, that number had dropped by 21.9 million, to 130.4 million. By the time Trump left office, more than half of those jobs had been recovered.

It took 17 more months, until June 2022, for the U.S. economy to recover the remaining 9 million jobs lost during the pandemic. From that perspective, the actual net gain during the Biden administration was 6.2 million jobs as of February 2024, not 15.6 million. However 6.2 million jobs is still a higher average than what former President Barack Obama achieved during his two terms (a total of 11.6 million jobs, so about 5.8 million jobs per term), with more than six months left in Biden's term.

But my concern is not how many new jobs are created but how much of our workforce is actually working. So, I took a look at the Biden Administration’s Bureau of Labor’s data, and this is what I found.

Although the number of employed individuals is increasing since Biden took office, the unemployment rate is also increasing as well as the participation rate and employment population ratio. This tells me that not enough jobs are being created or that persons are taking the jobs not in our labor force.