NYT Fact Checks Biden’s Wild Claims on Economic RecordWendell Husebø 21 Feb 2024
The New York Times‘ Angelo Fichera on Wednesday published several extraordinary fact checks on President Joe Biden’s slippery talking points about his economic record.
While Biden, 81, is an “elderly man with a poor memory,” according to the special counsel, his cogent staff likely carefully crafted the scripted talking points the Times fact-checked.
The fact check comes just days after a feud surfaced between the White House and the paper. Biden aides were “extremely upset” with the outlet for reporting analysis about the president’s age and memory.
The feud appeared to continue with the Times‘ issuing rare fact checks over Biden’s elaborate claims about his alleged economic success, coined by the White House as so-called “Bidenomics.”
Fact Check 1:CLAIM: “We now have a thousand billionaires in America. You know what their average tax rate is — federal tax? 8.2 percent,” Biden claimed in January.
VERDICT: The Times‘ ruled the comment as “misleading”:
Mr. Biden was referring to a White House study that sought to use a “more comprehensive measure of income” than the way income is currently assessed. In other words, it offered a hypothetical on what the rate would be if the law was different.
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