The Democratic National Convention was an interesting show, with the party bosses replacing a man who couldn’t articulate a coherent sentence, with a woman who can’t articulate a coherent sentence. Still, amidst the chanted slogans and platitudes, the DNC was a cornucopia of misinformation—so much so, it was difficult to limit our pick of the lies. Still, here’s a few of our favorites:
“Both Sides”
The Lie: In his speech of August 19, Joe Biden claimed that President Donald Trump spoke favorably of Neo-Nazis following the Charlottesville riot: “When the president was asked what he thought had happened Donald Trump said, and I quote, ‘There are very fine people on both sides.’ My God, that is what he said and what he meant. That’s when I realized… I couldn’t stay on the sidelines. So I ran.”
The Truth: At the time of the Charlottesville riot, President Trump explicitly condemned “white nationalists” and neo-Nazis. This is known to anyone who bothered to listen to the entire interview, rather just the edits played by the mainstream media. The claim that he spoke favorably of neo-Nazis has been debunked by mainstream sites, such as Yahoo!News and by left-leaning sites like Snopes.
However, we find a certain poetic symmetry to Joe Biden ending his presidency with the very same lie with which he began it.
What Afghanistan Withdrawal?
The Lie: At no time during her acceptance speech at the DNC did Kamala Harris mention the withdrawal from Afghanistan, or the 13 American troops whom the Taliban killed. This is a lie by omission—acting and talking as if that catastrophe had never occurred, that those soldiers and Marines had never died.
The Truth: One of the most moving events during July’s Republican National Convention was when the Gold Star families of the 13 slain soldiers and Marines spoke of their loss. They spoke the names of each of the 13 dead: something that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have never done.
Insulin Caps: Year or Month, Who Cares?
The Lie: Joe Biden claimed that seniors’ costs of insulin have gone from “$400 per month” to $35 per month.
The Truth: Insulin for Medicare recipients was capped in 2022 at $35 per month. However, one government report reported the average cost of insulin to be $452 per year, not per month. That averages to $37 per month, not the $400 that Biden claimed. Capping the price at $35 per month comes to an average monthly savings of $2. That, plus a couple of bucks, may just cover a latte at Starbucks, but it’s hardly an economic triumph. And it does nothing for insulin users who aren’t on Medicare.
Climate: Cutting Carbon Emissions in Half?
The Lie: Joe Biden claimed that the U.S. will be “cutting carbon emissions in half by 2030.”
The Truth: The goal of reduction by 50% by 2030 was mandated by the Paris Climate Agreement; but simply asserting something will happen doesn’t mean that it will. Even leftist sources like NBC News acknowledge that the goal will not be reached. This is due in part to difficulties raised by technology and the regulatory environment, and in part due to skyrocketing demand, such as from AI computation centers.
The Biden-Harris climate policy is on a collision course with itself: mandating that our economy be totally electrified, while at the same time mandating that electricity be generated by sources (wind and solar) that are inherently unreliable.
Inflation: Way Down?
The Lie: Joe Biden claimed that inflation is “down, way down.”
The Truth: This claim reminds us of the old joke about the man who murders his parents, then pleads for mercy on the grounds that he’s an orphan. Inflation rose sharply after passage of the Biden-Harris administration’s “American Rescue Plan” and its grotesquely misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act.” While inflation has declined from its peak of 9% in mid-2022, it remains considerably higher than it was under the Trump administration.
The cumulative effect has been that the total cost of goods and services during the Biden-Harris years increased 18.9%, while wages have not increased nearly as much. The Biden-Harris economic policies have made average Americans poorer now than they were four years ago.
The Border: No Politics?
The Lie: In her acceptance speech, Kamala Harris declared, “I refuse to play politics with our security.”
The Truth: In 2021, the Biden-Harris administration played up to its leftist supporters by rolling back the policies of the Trump administration that had restrained illegal immigration into the US. Their playing politics led immediately to a massive surge in illegal immigration—a surge that was both predictable, and for which the Biden-Harris administration was completely unprepared. A Harris-Walz administration will continue to play politics with our security on the southern border.
Jobs: 60 Million New Jobs?
The Lie: In his speech, Joe Biden claimed that the Biden-Harris administration created “60 million new jobs”.
The Truth: An increase of 60 million jobs would have increased the US workforce by nearly 40%, clearly a huge exaggeration. The number that Biden and Harris usually tout is an increase of 15.6 million. However, this ignores the huge dip in the number of jobs that occurred during the pandemic.
Between March and April 2020, the number of jobs fell from 152.3 million to 130.4 million—a loss of 21.9 million jobs. However, when President Trump left office, the recovery was well under way, with 11.9 million jobs having been recovered in the 11 months between May 2020 and January 2021.
When the Biden-Harris administration took office, the pace of job recovery slowed: it needed the 15 months from January 2021 to March 2022 to recover the remaining 9 million jobs.
Of the 15.6 million jobs that the Biden-Harris administration claims to have created, the actual net number of new jobs was 6.6 million. This does not take into account the recent downward revision of jobs numbers: On August 20, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised its estimated number of jobs added in the 12 months between March 2023 and March 2024 from 2.9 million to 2.1 million – a decrease of 818,000 jobs. This is not a loss of jobs; rather, this reflects a mis-counting of jobs—jobs that the Biden-Harris administration boasts of having created, but which in fact never existed.
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