I said before the debate that what was needed was a real-time fact check. Sadly, CNN didn’t do that.
But they did do one after-the-fact. This is what matters.
30 Lies.
- Some Democratic States allow abortions after birth (Nope. It only happens to save the life of the mother when the fetus is non-viable. Biden pointed this out.)
- Every legal scholar wanted Roe v Wade overturned (Nonsense)
- Everybody wanted abortion to go back to the states (Nope. 63% support Reproductive Rights)
- U.S. currently has the biggest budget deficit ever (it was larger under Trump, Biden has reduced the deficit by $1.4 Trillion — the greatest reduction in history)
- U.S. currently has a record trade deficit with China. (No, it’s gone down. Trump’s deficit was higher because of retaliatory tariffs)
- Biden gets a lot of money from China. (His son, Hunter and his brother James did — but Joe didn’t. Congress has copies of all their contracts, Hunter and James both testified to this.)
- Iran didn’t have any money to fund Hamas or Hezbolah during Trump’s term. (They did, And the $6 Billion that Iran that has been returned for releasing 5 hostages is being held in Qatar and can only be used for humanitarian purposes — not terrorism.)
- There were no terror attacks during Trump’s term (There were several. Biden also correctly pointed out that Trump did nothing when Iran attacked our Troops in Iraq.)
- Biden wants to quadruple people’s taxes (He wants to let Trump’s $2 Trillion tax cut expire, that alone would likely cut the deficit enough to bring us back into balance and the surplus we had under Clinton.)
- U.S. has provided more aid to Ukraine than Europe (No, it hasn’t.)
- U.S. has provided over $200 Billion to Ukraine. (Also wrong, it’s half that at $110 Billion plus most (67%) of what has been provided has been surplus weapons — we’ve been paying U.S. defense contractors to replace and replenish those supplies.)
- 18 or 19 Million people have crossed the border (Wrong, about 11 Million people have been apprehended and stopped by Border Patrol according to their stats. Of those about 7 Million were immediately expelled and tossed out of the country under Title 42 and Title 8 under Biden’s rules to only allow families and single children temporary entry to go through the asylum and deportation process)
- Many of these migrants are from prisons or asylums. (Wrong again, crime stats go down in every city that migrants are sent to)
- Nancy Pelosi turned down his offer of 10,000 National Guard. (Nancy had nothing to do with it and didn’t have the power to turn down Troops. Def Sec Chris Miller testified that he made a deal with Mayor Bowser to have Guardmen perform traffic duty which freed up more police, of which they had about 8,000. However, the permit for the rally specifically didn’t allow for a march — so the police were mostly around the White House near the rally. The Guard would have been there too — so when Trump called for an ILLEGAL march to the Capitol the police were left behind. The Capitol still would have been under-defended, the Guard would have been behind the crowd with the police.)
- Pelosi now acknowledges she turned down Guard troops. (In her daughter’s documentary Pelosi said that protecting the Capitol was “their responsibility" and they "didn't have any accountability.” She was talking about not having enough police in place, she wasn’t saying anything about the Guard.)
- Trump deployed the National Guard to Minneapolis. (That was the Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz, not Trump.)
- “Ridiculous Fraud” in the 2020 Election. (No Court, No Audit, and No recount has shown this. Rudy Giuliani lost a defamation case over these claims. Fox News lost a defamation case over these claims. Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro have been convicted for trying to overturn the election. Multiple other Fake electors and Coup Architect John Eastman are under indictment. “2000 Mules” has been pulled from distribution and has apologized to a man dropping off ballots who they wrongly claimed was “Mule.”)
- NATO was going out of business when he was in office. (They were not — and they’ve since added two more nations to the group under Biden)
- U.S. was paying 100% of NATO before he came along (Incorrect. We were paying for about 71% of NATO)
- Trump says he lowered insulin prices, not Biden. (He did lower prices for some seniors, Biden lowered them for everyone on Medicare, and is now allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices.)
- Biden Indicted him. (Biden has had no conversations with Merrick Garland about indicting Trump. And he hasn’t had any contact with Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James or Fani Willis. Biden denied this.)
- Europe takes no U.S. cars and won’t accept them. (Nope. Europe takes U.S. cars)
- Food Prices Quadrupled (They’ve gone up, but not that much)
- Biden has only created jobs for illegal immigrants. (He’s created 15 Million jobs, only about 2.5 million migrants have been allowed to temporarily stay pending their asylum and deportation hearings)
- Biden made up the idea he called dead soldiers “Suckers and Losers” (That was reported by the Atlantic then was confirmed by General John Kelly. Biden pointed this out, and that Kelly was fired.)
- Biden called black people “super-predators” for 10 years (No he didn’t, that as Hillary and she only did it a couple of times. Biden wrote the 90s crime bill which included the Violence Against Women Act and the Assault weapons ban. It was largely supported by Black people and leaders at the time.)
- Trump’s tax cut was the largest in history (Not true, but they have created the largest deficit in History)
- China and others stopped buying from Iran [after he canceled the Iran Nuclear deal] (They never stopped, only the US did.)
- He created the Veterans Choice Program (Barack Obama signed that bill in 2014, Trump merely made some adjustment sto it)
- Biden got rid of Veterans Choice. (No he didn’t — Biden signed the PACT Act to grant veterans better healthcare.
- Bonus Items.
- Trump said that migrants will destroy Medicare and Social Security (Dale didn't mention this one — but Biden responded to it. Migrants can’t take *any* Medicare or Social Security but they do also pay into these programs through payroll taxes)
- Migrants are “raping and killing Americans” (Another one Dale missed — there have been some isolated crimes, but generally Migrants commit only a fraction of the crime of U.S. Citizens)
- Trump claimed that NATO countries started spending only after he threatened to pull out. (NATO countries all came to an agreement to raise their defense spending to 2% of GDP after Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. That process was scheduled to be completed this year)
- Comparative Golf Game (Biden does have a handicap of 6.7 although he hasn’t played since 2018. Trump’s handicap is supposedly 2.8 — but then he cheats.)
- Everything was Great After Covid (No, the economy was in total chaos and freefall. Biden had to rebuild it while also coming up with a Vaccine distribution plan on his own after Trump tossed out the Pandemic Playbook)
- Biden only generated “recovery jobs" (During Covid Trump lost 8 Million jobs, after having built up 6 million in the year previously leaving him with a net negative of 2.5 Million jobs lost and the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover. Biden has recovered that 8 Million, plus another 7 Million on top of that.)
- The Ukraine-Russia War would be ended before he gets into office in January. (That's only possible if he gets Zelensky to surrender all the territory Russia has stolen.)
- He’d have WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich who Russia has arrested out and released before lunch time, and he’d give Russia nothing for him. (As if he hasn’t already given them plenty -- plus they’ve been holding people like Paul Whelan since 2018 and he did nothing.).
- Trump killed the “Biggest Terrorists” with Bagdaddi and Soleimani. (Biden took out the head of Al Qeada, Ayman al-Zawahiri.)
- Portland was destroyed. (No, it wasn’t. And having unidentified Federal officers in unmarked cars yanking people off the street didn’t solve the problem.)
- The Afghanistan pullout was the greatest disaster. (This only happened because Trump released 5000 Taliban prisoners after negotiating a surrender to them that didn’t include the Afghan government. Cutting them out of the deal led directly to their collapse and Biden having to pull everyone they could get out in an emergency airlift. Biden correctly mentioned that they got over 100,000 people including Americans out of the country)
- The j6 Select Committe “Destroyed all the evidence” (No, they didn’t. He’s talking about evidence that was supposedly held by Mark Meadows that he never provided to the Commitee.)
- Biden didn’t run for President because of Charlottesville. (Yes, he did.)
- Trump didn’t call Neo-Nazis “Fine people.” (This is an artful dodge. He said “I saw the tapes and you saw them too. I’m not talking about Nazis. There were some people — “who were very fine people” — who wanted to keep the statue. No, there were Nazis with Tiki Torches chanting “Jews will not replace us.” It was a NeoNazi rally., that’s who came. If there were *other* people who weren't NeoNazis (or so they think) who also supported keeping the Confederate Statute in place — they weren’t in any of the videos. Trump literally imagined that shit. Biden said “Yeah, they were Nazis.”)
- The 16 Nobel Prize-winning economist report is a hoax. (No, it’s not.)
- I didn’t have sex with a porn star. (She testified — under oath — that you did. Then you LOST THAT CASE. And if you didn’t, you could have taken a DNA test to prove it, but guess who chickened out?)
Trump has also said that Biden would “start World War II”, that Nikki Haley was responsible for security at the Capitol, that he defeated Barack Obama in 2016 and is running against Obama again. He’s said that Putin would never have attacked Ukraine if he'd been in office, even though he was in office while Russia was holding control of Crimea after they first invaded in 2014.
We really need to be talking about how fucking delusional this man is. These are not matters of opinion, it's not just a “certain point of view.” I know part of this is partisan spin and narrative — but honestly this is a person who truly doesn't comprehend how anything works, he’s not functioning in the same reality as the rest of us. He’s been saying this shit for years, it goes all the way back to the Exonerated Central Park 5. He grossly lied about them too. He can not process facts, he reimagines things into the shape he wants them to be. This guy is a chronic fabulator.
Biden had a cold, he needed a lozenge. Someone needed to get him a Ricola. He sounded fine when he showed up for the watch party. (This happened about 40 minutes after the debate)
All we need is for this guy. to show up next time.
Democrats in the field, who know the facts —- are totally still on Biden’s side.
There will be another date. There is still over 4 months to go. Usually the debates don’t happen until after the conventions, there is time to redirect the narrative. There is time to correct the ship.
What matters is that Trump. Can’t. Win.