President Joe Biden kicked off his re-election campaign with two speeches filled with his usual fact-challenged bombast. But since checking that might sound like “normalizing” bombastic Donald Trump, the “independent fact checkers” have filed nothing after his speech near Valley Forge on January 5 and his speech in Charleston on January 8.
But USA Today leaped to Biden’s defense on January 7, censoring Facebook posts that claimed Biden didn’t condemn political violence after the race riots in the summer of 2020. In Charleston, Biden glorified “the historic movement for justice” at that time, which is whitewashing some history.
Let’s review a few “checkable” misstatements by Biden, starting with the Valley Forge speech:
1. Trump is “willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power.” If we can be literal – as fact-checkers…
