Despite receiving a flattering question from an interviewer, President Joe Biden still faceplanted in his response.
During a May 14 interview with Yahoo! Finance, Biden falsely claimed that inflation had been wildly higher under his predecessor. His interviewer, who had promoted Bidenomics in his question, did not correct Biden. “I think inflation has gone slightly up. This was at 9% when I came in and it’s now down about 3%,” Biden astonishingly said.
But it was not.
In fact, inflation in January 2021 stood at only 1.4% but skyrocketed under Biden’s watch, reaching an average of 5.5% from February 2021 to April 2024.
To make matters more absurd, Biden made this demonstrably false statement in response to a misleading question flattering his economic record.
The interviewer, Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi, entirely failed to…
