President Biden obviously misspoke on Tuesday when he implied he went over Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge commuting by train or by bar. Because obviously, there were no train tracks over the Key Bridge. The facts mangled here are in Biden’s sentence.
But the unofficial Biden press secretaries at PolitiFact somehow pretended that Biden wasn’t in the wrong. He was wronged.
There was no “Truth-O-Meter” rating for anybody, which would suggest these Poynter Institute functionaries know they’re messing around. Their target is a Twitter account called @CensoredMen (which seems to be “pro-Palestinian,” as the media politely say). It was archived as shared on a Facebook group page titled Gavin Newsom Is a Douche. The tweet is factual:
#BREAKING: Joe Biden says he’s commuted over the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore many times via train.
The problem…
