That is the headline from the Washington Post. Cudo's to the Post in the better late than never category, they just called Joe Biden a liar.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ional-whopper/
Joe Biden’s CNN town hall: An occasional whopper
A Joe Biden town hall does not hit the Pinocchio meter as much as a Donald Trump town hall. Biden tends to stick close to the facts but occasionally gets carried away with some over-exuberance. Here are five claims that caught our attention during his CNN town hall in Moosic, Pa., moderated by Anderson Cooper.
“If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people — I’m not making this up. Just look at the data. Look at the data.”
Actually, Biden is making this up. There is no data to support this, even if the president had moved rapidly in January to deal with the coronavirus and been able to persuade the Chinese leadership to be more forthcoming about the situation. Even nations that have been praised for their handling of the pandemic, such as South Korea, New Zealand and Iceland, have suffered some deaths (377 in South Korea, 25 in New Zealand and 10 in Iceland).
In the United States, with 50 states run by governors, policies have varied greatly. Trump has been faulted for not articulating a national plan, but he would have had trouble persuading every governor to follow the exact same path.
(On the flip side, Trump routinely claims he saved millions of lives, a claim also not supported by evidence.)
OK, no evidence to support that he saved millions of lives but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that the actions he did take, did save lives.
“When, back in January, I wrote an article for USA Today saying, ‘We’ve got a pandemic. We’ve got a real problem.’”
Biden overstates what he said in January; he did not flatly say it was a pandemic.
Biden’s opinion piece was published on Jan. 27 and titled “Trump is worst possible leader to deal with coronavirus outbreak.” The op-ed appeared only days after the Chinese government shut down the city of Wuhan in an effort to stem the crisis, so Biden should be commended for focusing early on an issue that for most Americans was still a distant threat.The USA Today piece is more of an attack on Trump and a recollection of Obama administration steps taken against the 2014 Ebola outbreak than a detailed plan for action against a possible pandemic. But at the same time, Biden indicated that he took the threat seriously, even if he did not explicitly say a pandemic was on the way.
Yeah, so seriously that he criticized Trump for shutting down flights from China. I guess the Post just forgot about that.
Biden referred to the “possibility of a pandemic” and noted: “The outbreak of a new coronavirus, which has already infected more than 2,700 people and killed over 80 in China, will get worse before it gets better. Cases have been confirmed in a dozen countries, with at least five in the United States. There will likely be more.”
A few days later, on Jan. 31, Biden asserted: “We have, right now, a crisis with the coronavirus.”
That certainly stands in contrast to Trump, who repeatedly played down the possibility of a pandemic in the United States.“We should expect another 215,000 dead by January. But if we wore a mask, we’d save 100,000 of those lives, doing nothing but that.”
These numbers are on target. Deaths from the novel coronavirus are near 200,000 in the United States, and one influential group of researchers predicts the total will reach 415,000 by 2021.
OK, but we have already established that Governor's had more to do with mandating masks that Trump. As a matter of fact, Biden said one day this week that if President, he would order a federal mandate for wearing masks and added that "his people" had done the research and assured him that as President he would have the power to do this. The very next day he comes out and says as President, he would not have such a power. No shit Joe, I could have told you that.
The projection comes from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. The IHME model currently forecasts 415,090 U.S. deaths by Jan. 1, 2021.
Assuming public health mandates were relaxed, the IHME model predicts twice as many deaths before the end of the year: 400,000, for a total of nearly 612,000. But the increase could be cut by half with universal face masks, according to the model, which predicts an additional 100,000 deaths under that scenario.
I guess for the Post, you have to tell them a couple hundred times, "there can be no such thing as a "universal" mask mandate".
So there you have it Biden supports, your man lies just like every other politician but as I said once before, if you want to campaign on "our guy lies less often than your guy" you go right ahead with that and good luck.