WATCH: Even CNN is calling Biden a liar in brutal fact-check
Joe Biden’s speech at the DNC this week was so chock-full of lies that even CNN — one of the most left-leaning news outlets in existence — called him out.
Dave Rubin plays a clip of CNN’s Jake Tapper and Daniel Dale discussing the various lies and half-truths in the president’s speech.
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“What did you make of [Biden’s speech]?” Tapper asked Dale.
“There were certainly some false or misleading claims there, especially on the subject of the economy,” Dale responded, pointing to the moment in the speech when Biden said: “We used to import products and export jobs. Now we export American products and create American jobs — right here in America!”
“This claim is misleading,” Dale criticized, noting that while “U.S. exports of goods have increased under President Biden ... we are still importing a whole lot of stuff too.”
Further, another thing Biden “didn’t mention is that U.S. imports have increased during his presidency ... in fact increased by more than exports have increased, so therefore, the trade deficit in goods has increased under President Biden, not declined as this claim suggested.”
“It was over $1 trillion in each of his first three years in office; it had never hit that level before,” Dale elaborated before pointing to another misleading statement made by Biden during his speech.
“We have a thousand billionaires in America. You know what their average tax rate they pay [is]? 8.2%!” the president exclaimed in feigned outrage.
“An expert at the Nonpartisan Tax Policy Center has told me this number is quote ‘way too low,”’ Dale corrected.
While “the average federal tax rate for billionaires is 8.2%, what [Biden] doesn't explain is that that number is not an actual tax rate. What it is is an alternative calculation from economists in his own administration that factors in unrealized capital gains that are not actually treated as taxable income under current law.”
“Biden himself uses it like it's a tax rate under current law; it's not,” Dale told Tapper, adding that the tax rate billionaires actually pay is “not publicly known,” but “a study from two well-known economists estimated that the top 400 households paid an average effective tax rate of 23% in 2018 — much higher than the president's number.”
To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.
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Biden’s ‘Hail Mary’: Threatening to REFORM the ‘extreme’ Supreme Court
Joe Biden may have dropped out of the 2024 presidential race — but that doesn’t mean he won’t try to take the country down with him on his way out.
In a speech on Monday at the LBJ Presidential Library in Texas, Biden outlined his plan to get back at Trump and “reform” the Supreme Court, and he railed against the “extreme positions” he believes some of the justices hold.
“I’m calling for a constitutional amendment, called ‘No one is above the law amendment,’” Biden mumbled. “No immunity for crimes former president committed while in office.”
“That already exists. They can’t actually commit crimes on purpose,” Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” comments. “If the president, if he was about to go strangle one of the reporters there and kill them, he would be held responsible and accountable for that.”
Biden continued his barely intelligible speech, telling the audience that he believes “we should have term limits for Supreme Court Justices of the United States as well.”
“The United States is the only major constitutional democracy that gives lifetime seats in their high court. Term limits would help ensure that the court membership changes with some regularity,” Biden said, proposing an 18-year-term limit.
“That would help ensure the country would not have what it has now, an extreme court,” he continued, noting that those on the court have “an extreme agenda.”
“They’re always following the playbook of socialists and Nazis and fascists,” Gray says, after Keith Malinak notes that Cuban American congressmen and women said the first thing Nicholas Maduro did in Venezuela was change the Supreme Court.
However, Speaker Mike Johnson claims that the plan would be “dead on arrival.”
When reporters asked Biden about Johnson’s claim, Biden retorted with “he is,” as in Johnson is “dead on arrival.”
“Isn’t that violent rhetoric? Is that a threat?” Gray asks, shocked.
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