{"id":5053,"date":"2021-04-27T16:08:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T16:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2021-04-27T16:08:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T16:08:51","slug":"how-many-false-claims-did-biden-make-in-his-first-100-days-compared-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5053","title":{"rendered":"How Many False Claims Did Biden Make In His First 100 Days Compared To Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Biden made 67 false and misleading statements in his first 100 days in office, according to a report Monday from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/interactive\/2021\/biden-fact-checker-100-days\/?itid=sf_fact-checker\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post\u2019s fact checker<\/a>. That compares to 511 such comments from his predecessor Donald Trump in his first 100 days.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Two of Biden\u2019s falsehoods have earned the Post\u2019s \u201cFour Pinocchio\u201d rating, designated for \u201cwhoppers.\u201d He claimed several times that Georgia\u2019s GOP-led election law will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/03\/30\/biden-falsely-claims-new-georgia-law-ends-voting-hours-early\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">end voting hours early<\/a>. It won\u2019t. The other is Biden\u2019s claim that federal government contracts awarded to foreign companies went up by 30% under Trump, when in fact it was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/27\/bidens-jab-that-foreign-company-contracts-went-up-30-under-trump\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">likely much less<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact-checking analysts noted that when Biden made exaggerated claims, he would often amend his wording in subsequent addresses in apparent response to news coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s tally grew at a dramatically faster rate as his presidency progressed. Toward the end of his term, he was making around twice as many false claims a month as he did in his entire first year in office. On Nov. 2, the day before the election, Trump\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-lies-washington-post-number-november-2020_n_5ff44826c5b61817a5398564\" target=\"_blank\">made 504 false claims in a day<\/a>, nearly the same amount he made in his first 100 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/huffpost\/joe-biden-false-claims-first-100-days-003937144.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/huffpost\/joe-biden-false-claims-first-100-days-003937144.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Biden made 67 false and misleading statements in his first 100 days in office, according to a report Monday from The Washington Post\u2019s fact checker. That compares to 511 such comments from his predecessor Donald Trump in his first 100 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two of Biden\u2019s falsehoods have earned the Post\u2019s \u201cFour Pinocchio\u201d rating, designated for \u201cwhoppers.\u201d He claimed several times that Georgia\u2019s GOP-led election law will end voting hours early. It won\u2019t. The other is Biden\u2019s claim that federal government contracts awarded to foreign companies went up by 30% under Trump, when in fact it was likely much less.<br \/>\nThe fact-checking analysts noted that when Biden made exaggerated claims, he would often amend his wording in subsequent addresses in apparent response to news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s tally grew at a dramatically faster rate as his presidency progressed. Toward the end of his term, he was making around twice as many false claims a month as he did in his entire first year in office. On Nov. 2, the day before the election, Trump made 504 false claims in a day, nearly the same amount he made in his first 100 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,135,780,132,323],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-falsehoods","tag-joe-biden","tag-lies","tag-misleading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5054,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions\/5054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}