For the second time in a week, President Joe Biden made a false claim about inflation — and he did not get away with it as journalists and political rivals called him out on it.
Biden told Yahoo Finance in an interview on Tuesday that inflation was at 9% when he became president back in January 2021.
However, as fact-checkers pointed out when Biden made the same assertion during a CNN town hall last week, inflation actually was at 1.4% when he took office.
The latest gaffe by the president got posted to social media by the press and the Republican National Committee (RNC), who also noted the correct statistic
A week after fact-checkers corrected Biden’s claim to CNN that inflation was at 9% when he became president, the president repeats it to @YahooFinance
“It was at 9% when I came in”It was 1.4% https://t.co/jkvPGd2ZLx pic.twitter.com/XnMha9kuJu
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp)
