FactChecking Biden’s Town Hall
We spotted a few instances in President Joe Biden’s televised town hall when his answers didn’t square with the facts:
- Biden said that both he and his wife had “been” to the U.S-Mexico border. But the White House press secretary said he was referring to a brief drive by the border in October 2008, and Jill Biden went in December 2019 — not since becoming first lady.
- The president said the top marginal income tax rate was 35%, but it’s 37%.
- Biden said “community policing” caused a significant drop in violent crime in the late 1990s. Experts have said more police did help, but there were many potential reasons.
- Biden cited the large increase in vaccinations under his watch and credited buying “everything … in sight.” But while his administration did increase the government’s orders with vaccine manufacturers, the Trump administration had options in place to order more.
- He said “we’ve created more jobs in the first eight months of my administration than any president in American history.” That’s correct but doesn’t acknowledge the unique circumstances as the country continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic fallout.
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