Seeking to assuage concerns among Democrats that he’s mentally incapable of taking on Donald Trump this November, Joe Biden held a “big boy” press conference during Thursday’s NATO summit — and did it not disappoint.
Not content to just step on his own tongue more than once, the president spewed some of the most outrageous mistruths of his presidency (so far). From claiming Trump is his vice president to rewriting history on Afghanistan, the lies were almost nonstop.
1. Rising Prices
Biden claimed that “overall prices fell last month.”
That statement is false. According to PBS News, “Wholesale prices in the United States rose by a larger-than-expected 2.6 percent last month from a year earlier.”
2. ‘Vice President Trump’
Biden falsely claimed that he picked Donald Trump as his vice president.
“I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president [if I didn’t] think she was not qualified to be president,” the Delaware Democrat said.
Biden picked Kamala Harris, not Trump, to be his vice president.
3. Zelensky or Putin?
When confronted by a reporter on a moment from earlier in the day when he mistakenly referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy as Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Biden claimed, “I said, ‘No, I’m sorry, Zelensky.’ And then I added five other names.”
Even anti-truth CNN admitted this did not occur.
4. Debate Performance
Biden blamed his travel schedule as the cause for his poor debate performance against Trump.
“The next debate, I’m not going to be traveling 15 time zones a week before. Anyway.
