At least six mainstream media outlets independently verified President Joe Biden’s repeated false claim that inflation was 9 % when he” came into office.”
As initially , fact checked in early May by Breitbart News and other media outlets, the Consumer Price Index ( CPI ) inflation for January 2021, the latest reading when Biden assumed office, was  , 1.4 , percent.
According to Breitbart News, prices increased under Biden to historic highs not seen since the early 1980s.
Biden’s prices peaked in June 2022 , at a yr- over- time price of 9.0 pct, roughly one and a half years after he took office. The inflation rate has lately increased and is still high. In March, prices increased to 3.5 percent.
The common Wisconsin family , lost ,$ 21, 981 due to the increased cost of living under Biden, the Republican National Committee estimated in May.
A McDonald’s Big Mac burgers, a moderate tea, and a moderate potatoes meal , costs ,$ 18 in some places, up$ 10 from 2018 when Donald Trump was leader.
On Tuesday, Biden, whom Special Counsel Robert Hur described as” an old man with a poor recollection”, defied the truth investigations and repeated the false claim suddenly, drawing a multitude of point investigations from , establishment media outlets.
Associated Press ( AP )  ,  , assessed Biden’s repeated claim as false:
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.  , Prices was at , 1.4 % in 2021 as Biden assumed the presidency, having risen from a low of 0.1 % in May 2020, two decades into the COVID- 19 crisis. It continued to increase rapidly in the first 17 times of Biden’s president, reaching a top of 9.1 % in June 2022.  , Data released today , shows that as of last month, it had fallen to 3.4 %.
THE FACTS: Biden has half cited this variety, which is drawn from the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ‘ Consumer Price Index, in the past month, first in a , CNN interview , on May 8 and repeatedly during an exam with , Yahoo Finance , on Wednesday.
CNN wrote:
Biden repeated the state about the prices level, albeit in somewhat broader kind, in a , Tuesday meeting with Yahoo Finance. This time, he said:” I think inflation has gone slightly up. It was at 9 % when I came in, and it’s now down around 3 %”.
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In a Tuesday email to CNN, a White House national stated that the leader was arguing that the factors that led to inflation were present when he took office. By causing disruption to our business and breaking our supply chains, the epidemic caused prices all over the world.
Washignton Post gave Biden four Pinocchios:
Biden has attempted to explain that his administration has made leaps in reducing it and that the pandemic was mostly at the fault of his plans. But in doing so, he has been clumsy in his wording. He has consistently stated inflation was 9 pct when he became president, compared to prices of 1.4 percent when he took office, half in the just prior year.
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Trump claims that he intended to claim that the factors that contributed to 9 % prices when he took office were now present when he became president. In other words, regardless of who won the 2020 presidential election, higher rates would have been expected for goods and services.
Biden was ripped for making the bogus claim by National Review:
One possibility is that Biden is aware that this is fake and that it was done to deceive the public and to make people believe that Donald Trump was elected president rather than his.
Another chance is that Biden misunderstood the inflation level when he first took office, was informed that his state was false, and has since forgotten the proper figures. Specific counsel Robert Hur, among people, contended that Biden’s memory is bad.
Forbes wrote:
Biden , told Yahoo Finance , inflation was “at 9 % when I came in”, repeating a claim he made in a , CNN interview , earlier this month ( inflation was at 1.4 % year- over- time when Biden took office in January 2021, according to the Consumer Price Index ).
The Daily Mail reported:
In an appointment with Yahoo Finance, Biden made a false claim about the soaring prices rate during his tenure in office.
‘ I think prices has gone significantly upward,’ Biden said in the interview.  , He claimed it was at ‘ nine percent when I came in, and it’s now over around 3 cent.’
While prices hit more than 9 percentage during his administration as the U. S. came out of the epidemic, it was less than two percent – 1.4 percent yr- over- time in January 2021– when he started his president.
Fact Check: Joe Biden Falsely Claims Inflation Was 9 % When He Took Office https ://t.co/q3XFjxURah via @BreitbartNews
— John Carney ( read Tim’s book: Family Unfriendly ) ( @carney ) May 9, 2024
Wendell Husebo is a former GOP War Room Analyst and a political reporter for Breitbart News. He is the author of , Politics of Slave Morality.  , Follow Wendell on ,” X” , @Wendell Husebø or on , Truth Social , @Wendell Husebo.
