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Fact-Checking 3 Claims in Biden’s Farewell Address
Daily Signal ^ | January 15, 2025 | Jarrett Stepman

Posted on 01/16/2025 11:40:03 AM PST by Red Badger

President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address to the nation on Wednesday night. In his speech, Biden touted his record on the economy and his support for “democracy.”

“The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France after our Civil War, like the very idea of America, it was built not by one person, but by many people, from every background, and from around the world,” Biden said.

The outgoing president blasted the “wealthy” and “oligarchs” who he said are corrupting politics. He also said that “social media is giving up on fact-checking,” and that Americans are being inundated with misinformation.

Here is a fact check of some of Biden’s factual claims in his speech.

Job Creation

Biden took credit for producing the greatest amount of job creation for any president in one term. He said that his administration created “nearly 17 million new jobs, more than any other single administration.”

However, that statistic is extremely misleading since most of the job creation happened after mass job losses during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Even Politico has noted that the “U.S. economy didn’t recover all the jobs lost during Covid until 2022.”

A smaller percentage of Americans are working today than there were working when Biden took office.

Heritage Foundation economic and labor policy analyst Rachel Greszler wrote in August that “the unemployment rate alone understates rising non-employment in the United States.”

“Over the past year, the employment-to-population ratio of people ages 16 and older fell from 60.4 to 60.0,” she wrote. “That’s equivalent to 934,000 fewer people working today than just a year ago. And compared to 2020, just prior to the pandemic, there are 2.9 million fewer people working.”

There have also been issues in the administration’s reporting of job growth numbers.

In September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics made a massive correction to its March jobs report and essentially admitted that 818,000 fewer jobs had been created than initially reported.

Violent Crime

After touting the passage of a gun control law under his administration, Biden said that he’s brought violent crime down to a 50-year low.

“I passed the most significant gun safety law in 30 years and brought violent crime to a 50-year low,” he said.

But violent crime surged under Biden and remains high despite some misleading statistics suggesting a crime decrease.

According to a September report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the “total instances of reported violent crimes increased from 5.6 per 1,000 individuals aged 12 and over in 2020, when [President Donald] Trump was still in office, to 8.7 per 1,000 in 2023.”

Additionally, the study found that there were “9.8 instances of violent crime per 1,000 people aged 12 and over in 2022, which marks the highest rate during the 2020-2023 era.

The New York Post reported in August that “between 2016 and 2020, violent crime fell by 17% under Trump — and soared by 43% under Biden between 2020 and 2022.

Additionally, there are now problems with the recording of crime statistics. Not only are many crimes going unreported, but many city police departments haven’t been reporting complete crime data to the FBI since the system changed in 2021.

Hostage Deal

“After eight months of nonstop negotiation by my administration, a ceasefire and a hostage deal has been reached by Israel and Hamas,” Biden said. He claimed that the deal struck between Israel and Hamas this week was conducted and developed by his “team.”

However, according to Arab officials, and even the Biden administration itself, this deal was largely hashed out by the incoming Trump administration. The New York Post reported that officials in the Biden administration gave credit to Trump in facilitating the deal between Israel and Hamas.

“Multiple insiders and officials in both Israel and the US told The Post that it was Trump’s impending inauguration — combined with the efforts of his Middle East special envoy, Steve Witkoff, that finally solved a problem that had proved intractable for President Biden and his team,” the New York Post reported.

According to Reuters, “Witkoff was able to pressure Netanyahu into accepting the deal and moving quickly. It’s that conversation that shifted everything into motion.”

Also, according to two Arab officials interviewed by the Times of Israel, Trump did more to sway Netanyahu to make a deal in one day than Biden had done all year.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: farewell; fjb; speech

1 posted on 01/16/2025 11:40:03 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
He also said he traveled the world schooling foreign leaders on the greatness of America when, in fact, he traveled the world apologizing to world leaders for America's very existence.

Scroo you, Joe. And the Trojan Horse you rode in on.

2 posted on 01/16/2025 11:48:43 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves, and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Red Badger
The outgoing president blasted the “wealthy” and “oligarchs” who he said are corrupting politics. He also said that “social media is giving up on fact-checking,” and that Americans are being inundated with misinformation.

You had 4 years to affect a change to both issues and did absolutely nothing to address either one. Indeed, agencies under your watch weaponized themselves to protect your ineptitude.

3 posted on 01/16/2025 11:53:20 AM PST by econjack
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To: Red Badger

“The outgoing president blasted the “wealthy” and “oligarchs” who he said are corrupting politics.”

BiXiden would certainly know from his personal involvement as a “made, wealthy” politician. And from anointing $0r0$.


4 posted on 01/16/2025 11:59:50 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: econjack

Americans are being inundated with misinformation by their loyal media and Biden’s ministry of disinformation.


5 posted on 01/16/2025 12:00:01 PM PST by Texas resident (AMF to BHO)
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To: Red Badger

Lyin Biden is such a disgrace.


6 posted on 01/16/2025 12:00:29 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Red Badger
In September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics made a massive correction to its March jobs report and essentially admitted that 818,000 fewer jobs had been created than initially reported.

Now let me see. Does that mean that the earlier, grossly inflated figure, put out by the Federal Government, was... misinformation? Or was it... disinformation?

Questions, Questions, Questions, flooding into the mind of the concerned young person today. Ah, but it's a great time to be alive, ladies and gentlemen. And that's the theme of our program for tonight...

7 posted on 01/16/2025 12:02:26 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Red Badger

Only 3?

Is this a 12-part series?


8 posted on 01/16/2025 12:03:15 PM PST by Ken Regis (I concur )
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To: Red Badger

Biden of all people speaks of corrupting politics he must have been looking in the mirror.

Where’s the money

Al Capone was a second hand furniture dealer too.


9 posted on 01/16/2025 12:03:52 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: econjack
He also said that “social media is giving up on fact-checking,” and that Americans are being inundated with misinformation.

Misinformation? You mean like the Steele Dossier and Hunter's laptop, J6, Keep your doctor, keep your plan, Mostly friendly protests, George Floyd was strangled by cops not an overdose 4 times the lethal limit for fentanyl, climate change, acid rain, global warming, Biden is as sharp as a tack, the border is secure, oceans are rising, polar ice caps gone in 5, 10, 15, 20 years.

10 posted on 01/16/2025 12:07:22 PM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Steely Tom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc6ymS4NGxg


11 posted on 01/16/2025 12:10:10 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: N. Theknow

Yep, those are some of them!


12 posted on 01/16/2025 12:12:08 PM PST by econjack
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To: Ken Regis

LOL!..................


13 posted on 01/16/2025 12:12:52 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Biden has little awareness, as he reads a prepared script. He has repeated other people’s work for 50 or 60 years. He will never change that tactic. He will never quit pretending he is something great.


14 posted on 01/16/2025 12:13:39 PM PST by FreedBird (p)
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To: Paladin2

Oh, like the 1.5 billion given to Kamala?


15 posted on 01/16/2025 12:16:07 PM PST by Fledermaus (4 DAYS TO SANITY!)
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To: Red Badger
The outgoing president blasted the “wealthy” and “oligarchs” who he said are corrupting politics.

He would know....

16 posted on 01/16/2025 12:24:08 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: metmom

This is like Al Capone warning us about drug smugglers.............


17 posted on 01/16/2025 12:31:06 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

i saw where someone said he plagarized Eisenhower.

Same old Joe.


18 posted on 01/16/2025 3:40:07 PM PST by gnickgnack2 (They’re pushing us because they want us to push back. Then comes martial law. They see it as a win-w)
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