Joe Biden

“I’ve seen the headlines since the report was released about my willful retention of documents. This assertion is not only misleading, they’re just plain wrong.”

Washington Post says: The executive summary says that -- but the detailed report has many caveats

“On classified documents in his possession, “none of it was high classified.”

PolitiFact says: The special counsel said President Joe Biden had 18 documents with "top secret" markings on them. That’s the highest of the three levels.

“La evidencia, él dijo, [apunta que] yo no retuve deliberadamente estos documentos”.”

“The last guy had the worst jobs record since the Great Depression. Our record is a little different," including a chart that showed a monthly average loss of 57,000 jobs under Donald Trump and an average gain of 409,000 under Biden.”

FactCheck.org says: Employment under Trump was positive until the economy lost 20.5 million jobs in April 2020, as efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus led to business closures and layoffs.

“The special counsel “did not say” that Biden had shared secret information with the ghostwriter of his book.”

FactCheck.org says: The report did say that.

“Inflation has been at the pre-pandemic level of 2% over the last half year.”

PolitiFact says: Using two main inflation metrics, the U.S. inflation rate has ranged from 2.6% to 3% over the past six months. The White House said it’s referring to a different calculation that's less familiar to the public.

“On Jan. 6, 2021, former President Donald Trump "watched the cops being killed.”

FactCheck.org says: About 140 law enforcement officers were injured during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to multiple reports. But no officers were “killed” that day.

“Tens of thousands of auto jobs were lost nationwide during Trump's presidency,” but during Biden’s presidency, “we've created more than 250,000 auto jobs.”

PolitiFact says: Biden's right if you count both auto manufacturing jobs and positions with auto and parts dealers. Counting only manufacturing jobs, his claim falls short.

“There are a thousand billionaires now and you know what their average tax rate is? 8%.”

“Trump propuso que haya “castigo para las mujeres que ejerzan su libertad reproductiva”.”

“Look, folks, you know how many billionaires we have in America today? One thousand. You know what their average federal tax rate is? Federal tax rate is 8.5 percent.”

Washington Post says: The math mostly adds up but Biden is assuming income not currently counted for tax purposes

“The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years.”

PolitiFact says: By one measure, the white-Black wealth ratio, it's true that the racial wealth gap modestly reduced to the smallest it’s been in 20 years. By a different measure, the dollar amount difference in wealth, the gap widened.

“We’ve created close to 800,000 manufacturing jobs since I’ve taken office.”

PolitiFact says: The number is right, and comparing historical patterns 45 months out from a recession’s onset reveals Biden-era manufacturing employment to be the strongest in 72 years.

“Record low unemployment — 21 straight months of unemployment below 4%.”

FactCheck.org says: The rate was below 4% for 27 straight months from late 1967 to early 1970, and for 35 straight months from 1951 to 1953.

“There are 40 million people in America today who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. His [Donald Trump's] plan is to throw every one of them off that — that legislation.”

FactCheck.org says: That worst-case-scenario figure is based on Trump not replacing the ACA with anything. He says he would replace it with something — though he has given no details on what that would be.

“Republicans’ “plan would cut Social Security benefits. … Average benefit cut would be 13%.”

PolitiFact says: A House Republican proposal supports cuts to beneficiaries by setting a higher retirement age and changing benefit formula. But the proposal is vague, and Biden ignored that his status quo approach could also force cuts.

“Hamas has already said publicly that they plan on attacking Israel again, like they did before, to where they were cutting babies’ heads off to burning women and children alive.”

Washington Post says: Caution is still warranted, especially at the presidential level, about statements that babies were beheaded. The available evidence does not need exaggeration.

“Over the past four decades, we’ve lost over 400,000 farms in America (and) over 140 million acres of farmland. And that’s an area roughly equal to the size of Minnesota, North and South Dakota combined.”

PolitiFact says: Biden is right about the decline in the number of U.S. farms and is close on the acreage lost, which is roughly equal to the land area of the three states he cited. The reason: Higher productivity.

“Republicans in Congress are “trying to wipe out federal funding to end the HIV epidemic.”

PolitiFact says: Spending cuts proposed by a Republican-led House subcommittee would cut millions from HIV-related spending, but not entirely eliminate federal HIV spending, just certain programs.

“I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war. … I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.”

Washington Post says: Biden's remarks are remarkably uninformed by history and precedent