by The Federalist
Updated April 24, 2024. Three hundred fifty-five and counting.
Three years into President Joe Biden’s White House tenure, his fabulism is on repeat. He’s told more lies than anyone could ever quantify, but we’ve done our best to document his serial falsehoods. Here is part four of The Federalist’s rigorous coverage designed to hold Biden and his administration accountable with substantive fact-checking throughout the rest of his presidency.
You can find part three of “The Full List Of Every Lie Joe Biden Has Told As President” here.
355. Biden Claims He Commuted Using the Francis Scott Key Bridge
Biden contended that he “commuted [to work] every day for 36 years” as a U.S. senator using the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland. But this statement doesn’t align with the president’s previous claims — nor the bridge’s features.
Biden once claimed, for example, that he “commuted every single day [to work], 263 miles a day, on Amtrak.” While it was available to cars and other automobiles, the Francis Scott Key Bridge did not have railways, and therefore, could not have been used by Amtrak or other train services.
354. Biden Claims He Cut the National Debt
During an April 24 speech before his supporters, Biden claimed: “I cut the national debt so far.” That statement is factually untrue. The U.S. national debt has increased nearly $7 trillion since Biden took office, according to the Treasury Department
353. Biden Claims Trump’s Tax Cuts ‘Overwhelmingly’ Benefited the Wealthy
Biden claimed in an April 23 tweet that tax cuts passed by Republicans and signed into law by former President Trump “overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy and biggest corporations and exploded the federal debt.”
That’s false. Data produced by the IRS has shown that “on average all income brackets benefited substantially from the Republicans’ tax reform law, with the biggest beneficiaries being working and middle-income filers, not the top 1 percent,” according to The Hill.
352. Biden Claims He Gave a Speech That Never Happened
Biden claimed during an April 23 event that earlier in the day he “spoke about — up in Washington” how the 2024 election is an “old-fashioned election.” There are no public speeches or remarks listed on the president’s public schedule for the morning of April 23 indicating he ever spoke about such matters.
351. Biden Claims He Drove an 18-Wheeler
While speaking with supporters in Florida, Biden claimed he “used to drive an 18-wheeler.” There is no evidence Biden has ever driven an 18-wheeler. Even the left-wing PolitiFact rates Biden’s truck-driving claim as “false.
350. Biden Claims He Got Involved in Politics Because of the Civil Rights Movement
Biden claimed he “got involved, when [he] was a kid, in electoral politics” because of the civil rights movement. This is untrue, as Biden has cited numerous unrelated reasons for why he got into politics. In March, for example, Biden claimed it was Cesar Chavez who got him interested in politics.
349. Biden Claims Making College ‘Free’ Won’t Cost Taxpayers
Biden claimed during an April 23 speech in Florida that if he “has [his] way in the next four years, [he’s] going to make community college free” and that “it won’t cost the taxpayers.” This is false; nothing is “free.” Enacting such a policy would shift the cost of college from students to taxpayers, including those who already paid their tuition and student loans or opted not to attend college in the first place.
348. Biden Fabricates Climate Data
Biden claimed, “Last year was Earth Day’s hottest day on record.” That statement is not true, as the White House tacitly admitted in an edited transcript of the president’s remarks.
347. Biden Repeats Baseless ‘Suckers and Losers’ Hoax
Biden regurgitated the baseless lie that former President Trump refused to visit a war memorial because he thought the U.S. veterans buried there were “losers and suckers.” The allegations — which were first pushed by anonymous sources in a 2020 Atlantic article — have been publicly refuted by numerous Trump administration officials.
Even left-wing “fact-checkers” such as Snopes have admitted, “[T]here appeared to be no evidence of an audio or video recording of the remarks in question, nor was there any documentation, such as transcripts or presidential notes, to independently confirm or deny the alleged quotes’ authenticity.”
346. Biden Exaggerates Details About Late Uncle
President Biden twice mentioned his “Uncle Bosie” during a visit to a war memorial in Pennsylvania on April 17, but the details he gave contradict the established record.
Biden claimed Second Lieutenant Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr. was “shot down” in 1944 during a reconnaissance flight over a “war zone” in New Guinea where “a lot of cannibals” dwelled.
“They never recovered his body but the government went back when I went down there and they checked and found parts of the plane and the like,” Biden said.
Biden just told this story again for the second time today: He claimed his uncle was a pilot, was shot down over Guinea and eaten by cannibals.
Ambrose Finnegan was a passenger on a plane that was ditched due to engine failure and he drowned in the ocean. https://t.co/zpeRDGVD6g pic.twitter.com/ilCuxjsakq
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 17, 2024
A personnel file published by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency indicates Bosie was a passenger on a courier flight that “for unknown” but noncombative reasons was “forced to ditch in the ocean off the north coast of New Guinea.”
“Both engines failed at low altitude, and the aircraft’s nose hit the water hard. Three men failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and were lost in the crash,” the profile states.
Biden also claimed “Bosie” enlisted with his brothers after D-Day, but records show the aircraft carrying him went down a few weeks before American troops stormed the beaches at Normandy. To this day, Bosie’s remains are “still unaccounted for.”
345. Biden Repeats ‘Losers and Suckers’ Lie
After a winding tale about his “Uncle Bosie,” a second lieutenant whose remains are still unaccounted for after the aircraft he was on crashed near New Guinea in 1944, Biden repeated one of his favorite hoaxes about his top political opponent.
“What I was thinking about when I was standing there was when [Donald] Trump refused to go up to the memorial for veterans in Paris and he said they were a bunch of suckers and losers,” Biden said in Scranton, Pennsylvania on April 17.
Biden tells a story about his grandfather being "shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals" before recounting the debunked "suckers and losers" hoax for the second time in less than a day pic.twitter.com/KufaTlmCz1
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 17, 2024
The lie, published by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, was debunked by nearly two dozen Trump White House officials.
344. Biden Says He Taught Second Amendment Law
President Biden fabricated his resume again during an interview with Univision. In an exclusive sit-down with the Spanish-language broadcaster, Biden spoke about his alleged experience as a constitutional law professor.
“I used to teach the Second Amendment in law school,” Biden said, adding that when the Bill of Rights was adopted, “you couldn’t own a cannon.”
Except Biden has never been a constitutional law professor. Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi broke down the second lie last year:
The founders wanted the citizenry to own ‘weapons of war,’ because they believed an armed population was a bulwark against those who would strip them of inalienable liberties. So, for instance, you could definitely own a cannon. You still can. There are numerous accounts of the American military buying cannons from private citizens. Then there are the privateers, which as the name suggests were private citizens. And they had lots of cannons. Americans were never barred from purchasing or constructing any type of weapon they desired without any hassle until the 20th century.
BIDEN: "I used teach the Second Amendment in law school … From the very beginning, there were limitations. You couldn't own a cannon!"
(Not true) pic.twitter.com/EhJ4XVLQM1
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 10, 2024
343. Biden Claims He Ran for Office to Prevent War in Vietnam
During a Univision interview, Biden claimed one of the reasons he ran for president was to “reduce the prospect of war because of Vietnam.” There is no legitimate prospect currently of war between the United States and Vietnam. Throughout his political career, Biden has regularly claimed myriad issues inspired him to run for office, none of which included Vietnam.
342. Biden Claims It’s Unclear Whether He Has the Power to Shut the Border
Biden claimed his administration is “examining” whether he has the power to shut down the southern border and falsely asserted it’s uncertain whether he “has the power all by himself without legislation” to stop illegal immigrants attempting to infringe upon America’s sovereignty.
Contrary to his jumbled remarks, Biden has the authority to fix the ongoing crisis. In fact, he has taken dozens of executive actions since taking office to dismantle the security of the U.S.-Mexico border and America’s immigration system.
