This year brought huge political slip-ups, but according to an American newspaper, some of the statements of the current US president stand out among them, which are not even close to reality.
The Washington Post chooses the biggest Pinocchios of the year, i.e. politicians who have been caught in blatant lies.
This year, US President Joe Biden reached the top of the imaginary podium. Since the beginning of his presidency, Biden has said things that sometimes seem particularly hair-raising. He has, for example, "missed" the cause of his eldest son's death, he has confused Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, or he has speculated that the Russian president may lose the war - in Iraq.
These are largely due to the fact that the president often seems rather defocused. On the other hand, the situation is different with deliberate exaggeration, if appropriate, with eavesdropping.
In this regard, The Washington Post writes that many politicians like to tell stories, especially those in which they can connect their own lives with those of their audience and which show their human side. But throughout his long career, Biden has always had a tendency to slightly exaggerate or embellish certain stories, and that hasn't changed in his third year as president.
They recall that he repeatedly exaggerated the scale of the 2004 fire at his house, but often told a heartwarming — but highly improbable — story about the railroad conductor who congratulated him for traveling more by rail as vice president than in an Air Force plane.
"As a matter of fact, in my first two years in office, I reduced the deficit by a record amount of 1.7 trillion dollars," the president declared in April this year. According to the paper's collection
he boasted about reducing the budget deficit at least 60 times.
Biden arrived at the $1.7 trillion figure by comparing the 2020 budget deficit (about $3 trillion) to the 2022 budget deficit (about $1.3 trillion). The only problem is that in 2020, perhaps the most difficult year of the Covid epidemic, it grew almost naturally, and in addition, during his term of office, the national debt increased by about 850 billion dollars more than originally planned.
The image of the deficit has therefore worsened under Biden, despite this, he clings to a technical detail and tries to insinuate the opposite.
According to another resounding statement, his son,
Hunter Biden received absolutely no money from the Chinese, and any accusation of this nature is vile slander.
He said this for the first time in the 2020 presidential candidate debate with Trump, but he confirmed this again this year.
Biden's claims were refuted by his own son when he admitted in court this year that he had indeed been paid significant sums of money from China.
Hunter Biden recorded nearly $2.4 million in income in 2017 and $2.2 million in 2018, most of which came from Chinese or Ukrainian sources.
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