President Joe Biden took to the stage in Chicago, Illinois, to thunderous applause from the audience at the Democratic National Convention, but his speech was filled with misleading statements and outright lies.
Here are four of the biggest whoppers.
Banning abortion nationwide
Biden went on the attack to support abortion rights, but he exaggerated the position of his opponent to make him appear more extreme.
“Trump will do everything to ban abortion nationwide. Oh, he will,” said the president.
This has become a common refrain among Democrats trying to radicalize their voters in order to persuade them to run panicked to the poll booths, but it does not reflect reality. In fact, Trump has said many times that he prefers the issue to be determined at the state level and has denied wanting a national ban on abortion.
How much billionaires pay in taxes
“We have a thousand billionaires in America. You know what the average tax rate they pay? 8.2%,” Biden said during his speech.
While Biden has used the statistic before, he does not put it in context as an alternative stat instead of a definitive one.
“Biden’s numbers are way too low,” said Howard Gleckman, senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, to CNN in 2023.
Gleckman cited one analysis that found the top 400 households paid an effective tax rate of about 23%. Later in 2024, the Tax Policy Center found that the top 0.1% of households paid an effective tax rate of about 30.3% in 2020. Both of these figures are far more than Biden’s claim.
How many charging stations has Biden built?
“Creating hundreds of thousands of jobs in clean energy for American workers, including the IBEW installing 500,000 charging stations all across America. And in the process, reducing carbon emissions,” Biden said of his efforts.
The president mocked Trump for declaring every week “Infrastructure Week” during his first term, but he then went on to falsely claim victory in building charging stations. The truth falls far short of the promise.
As of May, the program Biden touted had only built eight charging stations out of the half a million he promised.
The trade deficit under Biden
The president explicitly claimed that he had worked to reverse the trade deficit, but a CNN fact-check found the opposite.
“We used to import products and export jobs. Now we export American products and create American jobs right here in America,” said Biden.
Whether the populist policy is economically beneficial for the U.S. in the long term is debatable, but the fact is that the trade deficit has widened under Biden’s term. CNN reported that the trade deficit was $901 billion in 2020 and increased to over $1 trillion in Biden’s first year. And it stayed above that number every year afterward.
The Democratic National Convention will close on Thursday when Vice President Kamala Harris will receive the presidential nomination.
Banning abortion nationwide is the “BIGGEST” joke @ this DNC w/ a 18 foot IUD float “PROMOTING”~ sterilization and murder w/ the PLANNED PARENTHOOD” mobile unit offering “FREE” vasectomies and abortions.
How well did that work for Kamala & other democrats for this years democratic convention as a “SELLING” point to this rally???
~OR~ how Mike got on the stage & talking about “HOPE” for a “NEW AGE” America (NOT THOSE EXACT WORDS, BUT THE POINT WAS MADE THAT HARRIS/WALTZ ARE THE WINNING TICKET FOR AMERICA)
How about ~”WALLS” BEING ERECTED BUT YET AMERICA HAS ‘OPEN BORDERS” BECAUSE THE “BORDER CZAR” HASN’T FOUND THE “ROOT” CAUSE
How about~ THE “BORDER CZAR’ BECOMING THE “GUN CZAR” (ACCORDING TO BIDEN THIS WAS HARRIS’S NEW ROLE) & SHE “PROMOTES” THE AMERICAN CITIZEN “BUY-BACK” GUN PROGRAM (GUNS ARE MEANT TO “PROTECT” ME & “NOT” WE THE PEOPLE
How about~12,000 CHCAGO POLICEMEN & NUMEROUS SS WHILST @ THIS DNC CONVENTION W/”SUPPOSEDLY 100,000 “PROTESTORS “PROMOTING” DEFUND THE POLICE” & WHERE THE PROTECTION @ ON THE “ATTEMPTED” ASSASSINATION OF TRUMP~ @ THE “RALLY” WHERE JILL BIDEN WAS SPEAKING SMH
DO YOU FEEL SAFE NOW AMERICA W/WELL OVER 20+ MILLION “ILLEGAL ALIENS” ALONG W/ “EVERYTHING & ANYTHING” THAT GOES AGAINST THE FABRIC OF WHAT AMERICA IS & STANDS FOR “ALL” UNDER THE “PROTECTION” OF HARRIS/WALTZ AFTERALL HER COMPETITION IS AN “FORMER”OLD MAN W/34 FELONOUS CONVICTIONS THAT ACHIEVED ALOT THROUGH THE “WITCH-HUNTS” FROM THE DEMOCRAT PARTY & “HAD” AMERICALOOKING GOOD TO THE POINT “WE” THE PEOPLE AREN’T FACING “WARS” ON ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD W/THE THREAT OF ANNIHILATION / OUR ALLIES HAVING TO DEFEND THEMSELVES BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENT FELT THEY NEEDED TO GIVE AID TO KNOWN “TERRORIST” WHILST “BURNING” THE AMERICAN FLAG & CHANTING “DEATH TO AMERICA”, 32% PERCENT INCREASES IN FOODS, EMPTYING OUT OUR ACCTS TO MAKE ENDS MEET DUE TO THE INCREASES IN “ANYTHING & EVERYTHING” TO SURVIVE. THE LIST IS ENDLESS, BUT CAN YOU “SURVIVE” ANOTHER 4 MORE YRS. W/HARRIS/WALTZ & YOUR “FUTURE” IS @ STAKE…
RESEARCH RESEARCH & ‘DO NOT” GO BY YOUR FEELINGS LIKE THOSE 81,000 DID WHEN THEY CHOSE BIDEN~ AGAIN THIS IS “YOUR” FUTURE ALONG W/ YOUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE @ RISK!!!
VOTE FOR AMERICA VOTE FOR YOUR FUTURE AMERICA CAN’T AFFORD ANOTHER 4 MORE YRS. UNDER THIS REGIME!!!!
in the words of the useless vp just imagine how week this country is going to look with a woman president Iraq, afghanistan, China, etc… have zero respect for women and we send Cackles in to deal with them the world is watching and laughing at us now so just Imagine….
Concerned: Deeply
High Ho Hitler Harris wins we are all DEAD AS IS AMERICA
Has always been a liar why would he change? Where is that kids diary?
Hey Joe Biden you can go FiretrUCK yourself and take all the rest of the Lying Bastards with you !
Everything Biden says is a lie! He denies his faith when he promotes abortions and the majority of taxes don’t come from billionaires, they come from everyday taxpayers, not billionaires. His push for electric cars hasn’t changed the environment and it never will. He has done more damage to the American economy than any previous administration, he has weaponized the government against citizens, and his open border policies have produced record crimes and lawlessness.