Joe Biden repeated a whopper about inflation on Tuesday during an interview with Yahoo Finance, stating that the economic measure was “at nine percent when I came in, and now it’s down around three percent.”
Just a week prior, the president told CNN’s Erin Burnett that “it was nine percent when I came to office, nine percent” when asked about the ongoing inflation crisis crushing the middle class. Biden seems to have settled on telling this lie over and over for one reason or another, of which some of the possibilities I’ll explore.
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Joe Biden has now twice in one week claimed that inflation was at 9% when he took office.
It’s a particularly hilarious lie because inflation was 1.4% when he took office and hit a HIGH OF 9.1% in June 2022.
That was the largest increase over 12 months…
