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Biden Confusingly Makes False Claim He Never Met With Fed Chair Powell
Breitbart ^ | 09/20/2024 | John Carney

Posted on 09/20/2024 10:42:38 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

President Joe Biden on Thursday appeared to forget meeting with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as recently as two years ago.

“I’ve never once spoken to the chairman of the Fed since I became president,” Biden said, falsely, in a speech at the Economic Club of Washington.

Biden met with Powell as recently as May 2022 in the Oval Office. This was Powell’s third in-person meeting with President Biden, according to Bloomberg. Biden nominated Powell to a second term as chair of the Fed in November 2021.

Biden’s false statement was meant to contrast his approach to the Fed with that of Donald Trump, who publicly criticized Fed chairman Jerome Powell for raising interest rates in 2018. Although Trump was lambasted by leftwing political pundits, who claimed the criticism threatened to undermine the independence of the Fed, the Fed appeared to concede Trump’s point the following year when it began cutting interest rates.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: biden; claim; false; powell
But he remembers beating up corn up.
1 posted on 09/20/2024 10:42:38 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Bold faced lie
2 posted on 09/20/2024 10:50:20 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He means he doesn’t remember ever meeting Powell.


3 posted on 09/20/2024 10:53:16 AM PDT by Colinsky
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To: plain talk

He may have been physically present.
But, he wasn’t there.


4 posted on 09/20/2024 10:58:20 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Biden strikes me as a guy who says what he wants to at the moment regardless of whether it is true or false.


5 posted on 09/20/2024 11:01:34 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Jared Bernstein explained it way by saying that Biden meant that he never met with Powell "to discuss inflation."

Remember that the next time the White House tries to take something that President Trump says out of context because Trump didn't finish a sentence or structure it in perfect grammar.

-PJ

6 posted on 09/20/2024 11:04:22 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Back to the basement or the beach, Joe. I’m guessing his puppet masters shouldn’t have let him out even for that brief moment. His elderly abuse wife must have been elsewhere.


7 posted on 09/20/2024 11:04:44 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Finishing strong...


8 posted on 09/20/2024 11:10:49 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Stated “without evidence”! He has enough brain cells left to know the fairy tale that the Fed is independent of the administration must be maintained, but not enough to fashion a credible lie about communications


9 posted on 09/20/2024 11:19:20 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: plain talk

At this point, who cares what Joey says?

For that matter, at this point, WHY should anyone care what Joey says?


10 posted on 09/20/2024 11:22:02 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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“At this point, who cares what Joey says?”

Probably someone could create an AI version of Hillary actually saying that.


11 posted on 09/20/2024 11:27:00 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: sjmjax

“he wasn’t there.”

For a long time, Joe Biden has been absent when present!
In many cases he has not “been there” when he “took someone to the back of the gym.” Sure, Joe.
Biden’s lies indicate that he has very low self esteem and must make up what he imagines to be cool, rough, brave and smart.
Biden is none of the above. He is a lying loser.
He will die eventually and then Mount Rushmore will be adorned with the ass of a horse chiseled in stone.
END OF STORY!


12 posted on 09/20/2024 11:35:29 AM PDT by BatGuano (Dem's guilty of Election Fraud in 2020, stand by for 2024.)
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We can call Biden a loser, but who lives in the White House, has SS protection, goes to the beach every week, owns a classic Corvette stored next to boxes of classified documents (for which he will never be prosecuted), gets 10% of his familiy’s graft and foreign influence peddling (on which no one pays any taxes)?


13 posted on 09/20/2024 11:54:25 AM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s trained his brain to remember lies it’s all he’s ever had to work with.


14 posted on 09/20/2024 12:43:33 PM PDT by Vaduz
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