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Biden Slammed After Claiming He Saw Pittsburgh Bridge Collapse
Independent Journal Review ^ | August 16, 2023 at 9:24am | Elizabeth Weibel

Posted on 08/16/2023 12:45:07 PM PDT by Red Badger

President Joe Biden was criticized for remarks he made in which he falsely stated that he saw a bridge in Pittsburgh collapse.

While speaking in Milwaukee on Tuesday, Biden spoke about Bidenomics and later brought up the topic of having seen the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, collapse.

The Fern Hollow Bridge, which was built in 1973, collapsed on Jan. 28, 2022, according to the Associated Press.

“Pittsburgh is a city of bridges. More bridges in Pittsburgh than any other city in America,” Biden claimed. “I watched that bridge collapse. I got there and saw it collapse,” Biden said of the incident.

Biden’s false claim was sharply criticized by people on X, formerly known as Twitter. According to Fox News, Biden made a planned visit to Pittsburgh that day, but arrived after the bridge already fell.

Veteran and author Sean Parnell posted, “I can assure you Biden did not personally watch a bridge collapse here in Pittsburgh.”

“Must have happened during one of his long-haul trucking routes,” small business owner David Giglio posted.

“Another day another lie… why is this tolerated,” sports commentator Dan Dakich said.

Former Florida state Rep. Jason Fischer (R) reacted to Biden’s claim by saying he was “lying to us. It never happened.”

Another user questioned how Biden was able to “get away with this?”

“Honestly, the President of the United States lying through his teeth and NO ONE in the mainstream media calls him out. What an embarrassment to our country – both Biden and MSMedia,” the user wrote.


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 202201; 20220128; 202308; biden; bidenlies; bridge; dementia; fernhollow; fernhollowbridge; fjb; joelies; lgb; pittsburgh; presidentautopen
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1 posted on 08/16/2023 12:45:07 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

This is what happens when Joey has to answer a question without an ear piece.


2 posted on 08/16/2023 12:50:23 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Red Badger

He really gets around.


3 posted on 08/16/2023 12:50:41 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Red Badger

Oh, FFS.


4 posted on 08/16/2023 12:51:30 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Red Badger

The demented old coot saw it on ABC Evening News with David Muir. And just like David Muir, Brandon is divorced from reality.


5 posted on 08/16/2023 12:51:57 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸 Selling out the U.S.A.: The Briben Brand™)
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To: Red Badger

His son Beau died in that bridge collapse.


6 posted on 08/16/2023 12:56:52 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: Red Badger

I’m waiting until Biden gets to Hawaii, and talks about his kitchen fire.

https://nypost.com/2021/11/22/biden-refers-to-small-2004-kitchen-fire-as-house-burning-down/


7 posted on 08/16/2023 12:57:39 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Red Badger

” Biden made a planned visit to Pittsburgh that day, but arrived after the bridge already fell.”

“... arrived after the bridge HAD ALREADY FALLEN”. An actual journalist wrote this?


8 posted on 08/16/2023 12:58:02 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Red Badger

Jon Lovitz could take lessons from this guy. “Yeah, DAT’S da ticket!!”


9 posted on 08/16/2023 1:00:23 PM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: Red Badger

Main stream media - “Oh, that’s just our Joe.....”


10 posted on 08/16/2023 1:00:23 PM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: Reverend Wright
I’m waiting until Biden gets to Hawaii, and talks about his kitchen fire.

and how he can relate, after all Beau burnt his fingers on the hot stove.

11 posted on 08/16/2023 1:00:49 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

Well, at least there’s photographic proof of him raising the flag at Suribachi.


12 posted on 08/16/2023 1:05:26 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: ClearCase_guy

LOL.....good one.


13 posted on 08/16/2023 1:05:54 PM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Rotflol...............


14 posted on 08/16/2023 1:06:30 PM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: Red Badger

““Honestly, the President of the United States lying through his teeth and NO ONE in the mainstream media calls him out. What an embarrassment to our country – both Biden and MSMedia,” the user wrote.”

That’s exactly what is so infuriating about all his lies. I just posted this on another thread about the fires:

WATCH: Biden again adds fuel to story about lightning sparking fire at his home

President Joe Biden appeared to embellish yet again the story of how a lightning strike caused a fire at his home nearly two decades ago.

This time around, he was delivering remarks Friday while in Colorado to survey the damage caused by a rare winter wildfire in the Denver suburbs that destroyed more than 1,000 homes and other buildings last week.

“Jill and I have not gone through what you’ve gone through, but we have had lightning strike our home and almost lose our home,” Biden said.

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
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Biden tells victims of last week’s Colorado wildfires that he once “had lightning strike our home and almost lose our home.”

That is a lie. According to a 2004 AP report, it was “a small fire...contained to the kitchen” that “was under control in 20 minutes.”

It then cited a 2004 report from the Associated Press about the lighting strike that hit the Bidens’ home in Delaware and caused “a small fire ... contained to the kitchen” that according to a fire official was producing heavy smoke when firefighters arrived, but it “was under control in 20 minutes.”

Biden previously talked up the 2004 lightning strike while in New Hampshire in November. Discussing his infrastructure plan and how bridges are important for emergency services, he said, “And I know, having had a house burn down with my wife in it — she got out safely, God willing — that having a significant portion of it burn, I can tell, 10 minutes makes a hell of a difference.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/watch-biden-again-adds-fuel-to-story-about-lightning-sparking-fire-at-his-home#google_vignette


15 posted on 08/16/2023 1:06:40 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

And he was on the grassy knoll.....................


16 posted on 08/16/2023 1:07:06 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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17 posted on 08/16/2023 1:08:01 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger

He personally saw Corn Pop knock it down.


18 posted on 08/16/2023 1:08:10 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

I think I’ll buy a box of Corn Pops today in his honor.................


19 posted on 08/16/2023 1:09:13 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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I hear they had to restrain Joe from pedaling onto the bridge on his bicycle as it collapsed.


20 posted on 08/16/2023 1:09:42 PM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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