{"id":35492,"date":"2024-03-18T13:02:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/?p=35492"},"modified":"2024-03-18T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:02:48","slug":"joe-biden-fact-checked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/joe-biden-fact-checked\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden repeats story that already got fact checked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1200px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-35492-1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Joe-Biden-is-at-it-again-get-the-fact-checkers-ready.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Joe-Biden-is-at-it-again-get-the-fact-checkers-ready.mp4\">https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Joe-Biden-is-at-it-again-get-the-fact-checkers-ready.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fact checkers are gonna love this video. President Joe Biden has once again repeated the same story that fact checkers already fact checked. Joe said once again: &#8220;I was with Xi Jinping in the Tibetan plateau. I traveled 17,000 miles with him&#8230;&#8221; Oh goodness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden was fact checked on this over three years ago. Even the Washington Post gave Joe Biden &#8216;three Pinocchio&#8217;s for how bad the story was. And what&#8217;s even worse about it is that Joe Biden said it multiple times before this one! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/02\/19\/bidens-repeated-claim-hes-traveled-17000-miles-with-xi-jinping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy point was that when I came back from meeting with him and traveling 17,000 miles with him when I was vice president and he was the vice president \u2014 that\u2019s how I got to know him so well.\u201d \u2014 President Biden, remarks during a town hall on CNN, Feb. 16, 2021<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had 24-25 hours of private meetings with him when I was vice president, traveled 17,000 miles with him. I know him pretty well.\u201d \u2014 Biden, in an interview with Norah O\u2019Donnell of CBS News, Feb. 7<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve spent more time with Xi Jinping, at least before we got out, than any world leader has. I traveled 17,000 miles with him, the president of China. \u2026 we traveled around the world together, in the United States and China.\u201d \u2014 Biden, at a campaign rally in Sparks High School, Nevada, Jan. 10, 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then WaPo&#8217;s reporter did the math and took a deeper dive into this, even talking to a White House official back then. Here&#8217;s what else the reporter discovered about Biden&#8217;s bizarre story and lie:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A White House official conceded that Biden\u2019s line of \u201ctraveling with\u201d Xi is not accurate. \u201cThis was a reference to the total travel back and forth \u2014 both internally in the U.S. and China, and as well as internationally \u2014 for meetings they held together,\u201d he said. \u201cSome travel was in parallel, some was separately to joint destinations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Try as we could, however, we still could not get the travel to add up to 17,000 miles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is weird, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Fact checkers are gonna love this video. President Joe Biden has once again repeated the same story that fact checkers already fact checked. Joe said once again: &#8220;I was with Xi Jinping in the Tibetan plateau. I traveled 17,000 miles with him&#8230;&#8221; Oh goodness&#8230; Joe Biden was fact checked on this over three years &#8230; <a title=\"Joe Biden repeats story that already got fact checked\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/joe-biden-fact-checked\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Joe Biden repeats story that already got fact checked\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}