![]() Trump has been unafraid of making arguments that are inaccurate, at times making claims that are 180 degrees from the truth. Some of the arguments amount to little more than catchphrases: Witch hunt! No collusion! Fake news! Others are complicated conspiracy theories involving obscure figures like a couple of FBI agents. His team claimed it had no foreign contacts then that only low-level volunteers had contacts with Russia then that Trump Jr., campaign head Paul Manafort and son-in-law Jared Kushner just had a meeting about adoptions then that even though they were promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton ahead of the meeting they didn’t get any and, finally, that there would be nothing wrong with meeting with Russians to get dirt on an opponent. Trump has argued that Russians didn’t meddle in the election, that it may have meddled but so did other countries and that the real scandal is that Barack Obama didn’t stop Russian meddling. Some of the arguments contradict each other. The president has also used a favorite rhetorical technique, whataboutism, to change the subject to what he argues are the real scandals: what the hacked emails revealed about the Clinton campaign, that Democrats had contact with Ukraine, that Hillary Clinton lied to the FBI ( not true), that Comey leaked classified information ( not true), and on and on. He’s also attacked his opponents: Comey is an “incompetent,” “shady,” “slippery,” “corrupt,” “sanctimonious,” “showboating” and “grandstanding” “slimeball,” who is “either very sick or very dumb.” And he’s branded Comey and others as “liars.” Americans have made clear that the status quo in Washington is unacceptable.Even so, he’s kept his distance, noting that Flynn got his security clearance under Obama, Manafort was only with the campaign for a short time and Cohen did only a fraction of his legal work. In fact, the Federal Reserve of Dallas expects health care inflation to get even worse in 2023.īottom Line: The American people are right to worry the economy will not deliver for them. Even Medicare premiums have increased 14 percent since President Biden took office. ![]() Health insurance premiums have increased 55 percent from 2013-2022, and more than doubled for Obamacare plans in that same period. READ: Congressional Scorekeeper Confirms Democrats’ Reconciliation Bill Raises Drug PricesĬlaim: Health care has become more affordable.įact: Health care affordability is getting worse under Democrats’ health care policies, including under President Biden’s watch. READ: Smith: Congress Must Confront Joe Biden’s Inflation MessĬlaim: Democrats’ drug price controls have lowered the price of drugs.įact: As President Biden brags about killing cures with Washington price controls that will not be in effect for another three years, studies show his plan will put cures out of reach for most American patients, except the wealthiest. READ: The White House Can Delete a Tweet, But It Can’t Delete the Inflation Biden CausedĬlaim: Take-home pay has gone up under President Biden.įact: Real wages have decreased 3.5 percent since he took office. Medicare premiums have risen for seniors since 2020, while Biden’s ongoing inflation crisis has pushed Social Security further towards insolvency. Biden has also been making Medicare and Social Security worse off - not protecting them. ![]() READ: Smith: With Economy Slowing Down, Dark Clouds AheadĬlaim: Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare.įact: President Biden has been making inaccurate accusations about Republicans and fearmongering to scare seniors when Republicans have been clear we are not going to touch their retirement security. ![]() He has missed forecasts for seven of the last eight GDP reports, and the GDP report for the 4 th Quarter of 2022 – which still fell short of expectations – showed that half of the economic growth was due to inventories, while investment was flagging. Here are some of President Biden’s latest misleading claims.Ĭlaim: The economy keeps growing more and more.įact: President Biden’s economic record continually falls short of expectations, and for 2022, economic growth was no exception. Read: Chairman Smith on GDP report: With Economy Slowing Down, Dark Clouds Ahead And even more trouble lies ahead, according to the latest Leading Economic Index report. In fact, the entirety of 2022 was worse for economic growth than expected. While Biden claimed the economy is growing strong, the latest report on economic growth reveals that the economy under his Administration’s policies has fallen short of expectations on seven out of the last eight economic growth reports. – President Biden did not let the facts get in the way of his speech Thursday in Springfield, VA. ![]()
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