Washington Post fact-check blasts Biden with 'Bottomless Pinocchio' rating - New York Post

WASHINGTON — The Washington Post crowned President Biden Monday with its Trump-era “bottomless Pinocchio” standing aft helium told aggregate untruths and committed respective gaffes up of Tuesday’s midterm elections.

It’s the archetypal clip the paper has “awarded” Biden the not-so-coveted rating, which it defines arsenic a connection repeated astatine slightest 20 times that is truthful mendacious that it has received either “three Pinocchios” oregon “four Pinocchios” connected anterior occasions.

The connection successful question is Biden’s oft-repeated assertion that helium has spent “more clip with [Chinese President] Xi Jinping than immoderate different caput of state,” traveling “17,000 miles with him.” The connection has been proven false, with the White House successful February 2021 telling the paper it was “a notation to the full question backmost and distant — some internally successful the US and China, and arsenic good arsenic internationally — for meetings they held together.”

But adjacent that assertion proved to beryllium inaccurate.

“There is nary grounds Biden traveled that overmuch with Xi, the president of China — and adjacent if we added up the miles Biden flew to spot Xi, it inactive did not full 17,000 miles,” Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler wrote Monday.

Biden made the remark for the 20th and 21st times during governmental events successful California and New Mexico past week.

The paper created the “bottomless” standing during the Trump medication to picture “false oregon misleading statements repeated truthful often that they became a signifier of propaganda.” Trump earned 56 specified ratings by the clip helium near bureau successful January 2021.

Kessler besides called retired the president for claiming that “the astir communal terms of state successful America is $3.39 — down from implicit $5 erstwhile I took office,” which helium said Oct. 27.

Biden repeated the assertion connected Twitter Sunday, noting that the “most communal terms astatine state stations crossed the state is $3.19.”

The contented is with Biden’s usage of the word “most common” — which does not adjacent the “average.” The mean terms astatine the pump erstwhile helium took bureau was astir $2.48, according to the Energy Information Administration.

President Biden’s oft-repeated assertion that helium has spent “more clip with [Chinese President] Xi Jinping than immoderate different caput of state” has been proven false.Getty Images

President Biden was called retired for claiming that “the astir communal terms of state successful America is $3.39 — down from implicit $5 erstwhile I took office.”Getty Images

While it’s existent that the astir communal terms for state — oregon the mathematical “mode” of each prices — was astir $3.19, according to the GasBuddy App, the mean terms of state was astir $3.80 per gallon arsenic of Monday, according to AAA.

By referring to the most-often-seen price, Biden sidestepped having to incorporated immoderate of the highest prices seen successful the US successful his tally.

The Washington Post besides criticized the White House for touting some successful nationalist remarks and a since-deleted Nov. 1 tweet that seniors were “getting the biggest summation successful their Social Security successful 10 years done President Biden’s leadership.”

While the remark is technically true, it’s not due to the fact that of immoderate tremendous feat by the administration. The crushed for the hike is soaring inflation: A 1972 instrumentality holds that Social Security indispensable beryllium adjusted each twelvemonth to support up with ostentation rates.

Thus, seniors implicit 65 and different eligible recipients adjacent twelvemonth volition spot astir an 8.7% summation successful benefits, according to the Social Security Administration, which volition outgo taxpayers astir $100 billion.