Posted on 10/22/2021 9:26:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
All it would take is one look at any of the recent presidential approval polls to let you know that not a lot is getting done in Washington these days, and the headlines from around the rest of the country don’t look much better. But that won’t stop Joe Biden from trying to take credit for what little good news there is to be seen. That’s something that cropped up during his recent town hall on CNN, and now the Associated Press fact-checkers have been forced to bestir themselves and gently chide Biden for trying to claim credit for something he had almost nothing to do with.
The claim in question arose when Biden was asked about the pace of COVID vaccinations around the country. The President was quick to try to take credit for the progress made thus far, stretching back to events that happened before he was even in office. He said, “When I first was elected, there were only 2 million people who had COVID shots in the United States of America — and the vaccine. Now we got 190 million, because I went out and bought everything I could do and buy in sight and it worked.”
As the fact-checkers were quick to point out, virtually nothing he said in that statement was true. And the bits that might arguably be described as “partially true” are a significant stretch.
THE FACTS: No, that’s not how the vaccine rollout in the U.S. happened. Biden is overstating his part.First, it’s not true that 2 million people had shots when he was elected in November. The COVID-19 vaccines were still awaiting emergency authorization then. The first shots were administered to the public in mid-December.
Nearly 16 million doses had been administered by Jan. 20, the day Biden took office.
Partially true because he “made vaccinations happen” in people whom he bullied and threatened into violating their conscience.
Didn’t happen to me.
Biden just happened to be President when the Trump covid-19 vaccine got fully deployed. We have the covid-19 vaccine because of Trump. Biden did nothing.
April 2021
“I’m all in favor of the vaccine,” Trump said Thursday. “It’s one of the great achievements, a true miracle, and not only for the United States. We’re saving tens of millions of lives throughout the world. We’re saving entire countries.”
July 2021
The variants arise
Biden tries to mislead the world into thinking his son was a war hero killed in combat.
Beau Biden was a JAG officer who worked a desk job, a paper pusher. Yes he was a vet, and that should be good enough for anyone. Not everyone who serves is a Rambo. But it dishonors Biden's son to lie about him and embellish his accomplishments.
Taking credit for all the DEATHS is he
I only listen to short clips of Biden so I can laugh. The one of him clutching his fists while speaking to A. Cooper is priceless. He is trying really hard to hold onto his last bit of ability to form sentences.
The purpose of the vaccine was to protect the most vulnerable. It should have been made available to anyone who wanted it after that, full stop.
Didn't think he had it in him.
“For 1000 years I alone have pursued SARS-2 vaccines!”
Let him take credit for the biggest blunder of this century.
Yes, But Joe did invent the internet just before Algore did.
While he was looking for the union label on an Amtrak train no doubt.
Looks like the “No Malarkey” tour drops another turd in the punchbowl. Somewhere in DC there are liberals shaking their heads and asking one another, “We stole an election for this?”
Let him take credit then for the thousands of people who have died from the shot...or had serious side affects...or got covid anyway.
I believe hindsight is not going to be very friendly to those
who pushed these vaccines.
Those who are being vocal today, will either be saying they
never were vocal, or will be saying they were vocal against
them.
Good luck with that. People are not going to be kind to
these people.
The credit whore will next say he invented the internet not Al Gore.
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